Agnes Northrop
Agnes Fairchild Northrop | |
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| Born | 1857 Flushing, New York |
| Died | 1953 (aged 95–96) Manhattan, New York |
| Movement | Art Nouveau |
Agnes Northrup (1857 – 1953) was an American glass artist.
Northrup was born in Flushing, Queen in 1857.[1] She studied at the Flushing Institute. She started working for Louis Comfort Tiffany's Glass Company in the early 1880s. She worked in the Women’s Glass Cutting Department where she served as head of the department briefly before being replaced by Clara Driscoll.[2] By the 1890s shewas a designer for Tiffany with her own studio.[1] She designed several window for the Bowne Street Community Church (now the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing).[2] Her window Magnolia was exhibited at the 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.[3]
Northrup died in Manhattan in 1953.[1]
Her work is in the Art Institute of Chicago,[4] the Driehaus Museum,[5] the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art,[6] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[7]
In 2024 the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a stained glass triptych entitled Garden Landscape.[8][9]
References
- ^ a b c "Working drawing for a lampshade". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Article: Celebrating Agnes Northrop". Bowne House. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Tiffany Glass A Passion For Color". Antiques and The Arts Weekly. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Agnes Northrop Moves to the Art Institute". Classic Chicago Magazine. 26 June 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Landscape by Agnes Northrop". Driehaus Museum. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Magnolia and Skeeters". The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Tiffany Studios | Autumn Landscape". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Met acquires large Tiffany window by Agnes Northrop". The History Blog. 1 January 2024. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ Babbs, Verity (12 December 2023). "See the Monumental Tiffany Stained-Glass Window the Met Just Acquired". Artnet News. Retrieved 30 March 2024.