April 26 through June 29, 2025

Kress Gallery

For the first time, the Allentown Art Museum presents an extraordinary pair of recently acquired landscape memorial windows by Tiffany Studios. Stunning in their beauty, these leaded glass windows demonstrate artist and Tiffany Studios founder Louis Comfort Tiffany’s pioneering use of landscape to commemorate a lost loved one. Agnes Northrup, a key creative force at Tiffany Studios for fifty years, likely designed these floral-filled, evocative compositions featuring rivers as a metaphor for the passage of life and offering nature as solace. The luminous designs reflect Tiffany’s technical innovations, their glow created by layers of opalescent Favrile glass that transmit light and intensify color.

The acquisition, conservation, and installation of these remarkable windows is the culmination of a community effort spanning several years and supported by more than 220 individuals and foundations. Their purchase benefits the United Presbyterian Church in Pottsville, PA, for which they were originally commissioned, by allowing the organization to continue and expand social programs in their community. The Allentown Art Museum is honored to be able to conserve and preserve these important works for generations to come.

This milestone project is made possible by the Leigh Schadt and Edwin Schadt Art Museum Trust Fund and with the generous support of more than 220 donors to the Tiffany Windows Campaign 2017-2025.

*For a complete list of donors to the Tiffany Windows Campaign click here.

 

                                   

Tiffany Studios (American, 1902-1932), design attributed to Agnes Northrop (American, 1857-1953), Thompson Memorial Window, 1913, and Derr Memorial Window, 1919, leaded Favrile glass. Allentown Art Museum: purchase, Leigh Schadt and Edwin Schadt Art Museum Trust Fund and with the generous support of more than 220 donors to the Tiffany Windows Campaign 2017-2025. (2024.8.1, 2)