Louis Comfort Tiffany View of Oyster Bay Poster Print Framed Matted from The Met

Description: View of Oyster Bay - The New American Wing Metropolitan Museum of Art Poster print by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American (1848–1933) Highlights Professionally framed in Black Metal with Grey/Pale Green mat Includes hanging hardware and is ready to hang Details Image Size: 26 x 23 inches Paper Size: Frame Size: 31 x 29 x 1 inches Medium: Paper on board Edition: Open Provenance: Lancaster, PA Auction Comments View of Oyster Bay is a poster print by the The Metropolitan Museum of Art based on the original stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1908Louis Comfort Tiffany designed this window for the Manhattan home of silk industry scion William C. Skinner whose family home in Holyoke, Massachusetts, was named Wistariahurst. It has long been called View of Oyster Bay, however, because the scene so closely resembles views from the north shore of Long Island, New York, where Tiffany built his grand country estate Laurelton Hall between 1902 and 1905. In 1978, Hugh and Jeannette McKean gave the loggia from Laurelton Hall to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for installation in the light-filled space of the American Wing’s Charles Engelhard Court. At the same time, the McKeans made an extended loan of View of Oyster Bay to the Metropolitan.View of Oyster Bay is a particularly splendid example of the art and craft of Tiffany’s leaded glass. One looks through a trellis hung with lush, deeply-colored wisteria vines to a serene, sun-dappled bay and a glorious sky. The vines are resplendent with magnificent blue blossoms and intricately composed leaves in variegated greens and yellows. The heavy, black metal lines of the window’s trellis serve not only to hold the window together structurally, but also by their proportion and composition to stabilize the asymmetrical nature of the illusory three-dimensional space Tiffany has created with colored glass. The lower portion of the view is the water of the bay itself. There light-blue glass yields at moments almost to white, brilliantly suggesting both the movement of the water and the effects of sunlight on it. Distant land masses are made of purplish glass, darker for the closest hill, paler for the more distant one. Reddish glass, variegated and gradated, suggests a darkening sky on the horizon behind the wisteria, while glass of the lightest purple-rose represents the fleeting sunlight at the furthest reaches beyond the hills.Seldom do the elements of structure, color, texture, and composition come together in such balance and mutual support. It is no wonder that View of Oyster Bay is one of the most popular art objects exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Condition (Please see grading guide below) (I) Overall: Excellent (II) Content: Excellent (III) Frame: Very Good (some scuffs and scratches; hanging hardware attached) Artist Bio One of America’s most acclaimed artists, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s (1848–1933) career spanned from the 1870s through the 1920s. He embraced virtually every artistic and decorative medium, designing and directing his studios to produce leaded-glass windows, mosaics, lighting, glass, pottery, metalwork, enamels, jewelry, and interiors. As the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812–1902), founder of Tiffany & Co., the fancy goods store that became the renowned jewelry and silver firm, Tiffany chose to pursue his own artistic interests in lieu of joining the family business. Tiffany began his career as a painter, working under the influence of such artists as George Inness (1825–1894) and Samuel Colman (1832–1920). Possessing financial means, he traveled extensively through Europe, North America, and—in 1870–71, with painter Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905)—North Africa, where he derived inspiration for Snake Charmer at Tangier, Africa. Completed in 1872 and exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, the painting shows Tiffany’s penchant for exotic art and architecture. Beginning in the late 1870s, Tiffany turned his attention to decorative arts and interiors, although he never abandoned painting. Of all of Tiffany’s artistic endeavors, leaded-glass brought him the greatest recognition. Tiffany and his early rival, John La Farge, revolutionized the look of stained glass, which had remained essentially unchanged since medieval times when craftsmen utilized flat panes of white and colored glass with details painted with glass paints before firing and leading. Tiffany and La Farge experimented with new types of glass and achieved a more varied palette with richer hues and greater density. By 1881, each had patented an opalescent glass, a unique American phenomenon that featured a milky, opaque, and sometimes rainbow-hued appearance with the introduction of light. Internally colored with variegated shades of the same or different hues, Tiffany’s Favrile glass enabled craftsmen to substitute random tonal gradations, lines, textures, and densities inherent in the material itself for pictorial details. References https://morsemuseum.org/on-exhibit/view-of-oyster-bay/ https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tiff/hd_tiff.htm Grading Guide Notes: The condition grade is a subjective rating based on the observed objective physical features of the item to the naked eye The condition grade does not factor in the perceived beauty or aesthetic impact of the content itself Please view all of the item pictures and video to make your own informed condition decision before purchasing Scale: Excellent: No damage or issues barely perceptible from close viewing distance and bright lighting conditions Very Good: Issues visible from close viewing distance and normal lighting conditions Good: Issues visible from normal viewing distance and lighting conditions but do NOT significantly detract from the overall look of the work Fair: Issues that are immediately apparent from normal viewing distance and lighting conditions AND significantly detract from the overall look of the work Poor: Severe condition issues that require repair and some may be beyond repair Buyer Notes Grinding 4 Good does our best to accurately describe the items we offerItems are offered AS IS/AS DESCRIBED to the best of our knowledge, research and abilityThe buyer is expected to view the photos, video and descriptions carefully and ask questions before they purchaseIf you have an issue or question, please contact us via eBay's systemAfter you have received your item, if you are happy with our service and your new purchase please consider leaving us buyers feedback. 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Price: 250 USD

Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania

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