In Company with Angels: Seven Tiffany Windows at the Delaware Art Museum
by Jason Peter Brown on September 21, 2007
Filed Under: EXHIBITIONS, STAINED GLASS, TIFFANY
Pergamos, 1902 Leaded stained glass Louis Comfort Tiffany. Photo © Douglas A. Lockard.
In Company with Angels: Seven Tiffany Windows is an exhibition of 7 re-discovered windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington. The show runs from September 23, 2007 — April 2008. From the press release:
In Company with Angels: Seven Tiffany Windows, an exhibition of stained glass angels made in 1902 for a Swedenborgian church in Cincinnati that were displaced when the church was razed in 1964…For 37 years, the boxed eight-foot-tall windows remained in parishioners' garages and basements in Ohio, traveled in a U-Haul to a Swedenborgian property in Pennsylvania, and rested there in a barn until 2001, when a newly-arrived minister opened the unmarked boxes. Stunned, she called stained-glass expert Arthur Femenella, who recognized Tiffany's opalescent glass, design, and technique through decades of grime.