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Article: Beyond the lamplight: a new Louis Comfort Tiffany shoe takes full measure of an artist whose range was not limited to his famous glass shades.(Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)
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- House Beautiful
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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A new Louis Comfort Tiffany show takes full measure of an artist whose range was not limited to his famous glass shades
If ever there was an artist victimized by his own success, it was Louis Comfort Tiffany, the multifaceted American master of virtually all the decorative arts. During Tiffany's long, enormously productive, and highly lucrative career, there seemed to be no medium he could not make distinctively his own. Ceramics, enamel, glass, furniture, jewelry, metalwork, mosaics, painting, and textiles were all firmly within his creative grasp. From the zenith of the Gilded Age to the onset of the Great Depression, he achieved an international celebrity that few ...