A Celestial Show From a Tiffany Window at the Museum of Biblical Art

THE NEW YORK TIMES

By Eva Kahn

A 1902 leaded-glass window from a show of Tiffany religious works at the Museum of Biblical Art.

NEW YORK---Louis Comfort Tiffany encouraged his crafts people to specialize in catering to the grief-stricken. His factory, in Corona, Queens, offered stock and custom window designs for houses of worship, to be installed in memory of loved ones. The curators of “Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion,” opening Friday at the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan, have in fact traveled to see recurring themes in the panes. They have also persuaded congregations to lend poignant memorials. Through Oct. 28, the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester is displaying seven stained-glass Tiffany angels in skinny arched frames, about eight feet tall. They came from a Swedenborgian church in Cincinnati that was razed in 1964, and they have been traveling to museums for the last few years. The Rochester gallery created a list of nearby Tiffany installations worth visiting. [link]