Lecture To Be Held June 12 Famous Tiffany Studios Stained Glass Ceiling Is Topic
By Karl Pass - June 13, 2025
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen will present a lecture, Beyond the Glass Ceiling, at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., on Thursday, June 12, at 7 p.m. The talk, part of the museums Putman Arts Leader Lecture Series, will focus on the female artists and philanthropists who commissioned, designed and crafted the historic Tiffany Studios stained-glass Garden Landscape window from 1912. This famous work was recently installed at the MET. The work was conceived, commissioned, and crafted by women and highlights the important role women played in the art of Louis C. Tiffany. Garden Landscape is a three-part work designed by Agnes Northrop, one of Tiffanys premier window designers. Northrop worked for Tiffanys firm her entire career as an independent woman with a studio of her own. The work was commissioned by Sarah Cochran, a successful Pittsburgh businesswoman, philanthropist, and suffragist for Linden Hall, the large estate she built in Dawson, Pa., in 1912. She personally requested the subject, suggestive of her own gardens. Hear the unique story Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Agnes Northrop and a Tiffany Garden Landscape Window by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang curator of American Decorative Arts. The cost of the lecture is $15 for members and $25 for nonmembers. The James Michener Art Museum is at 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown, Pa. To purchase tickets or learn more, visit www.michenerartmuseum.org.
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