Woodland Interior

Louis C. Tiffany

1866 or 1868 · Watercolor and gouache on tan paper · The American Wing

It is testimony to Tiffany's chief legacy as an interior decorator and a master of stained glass that the Museum owns over four hundred of his design drawings. However, before and during his career in the decorative arts he was a painter of considerable reputation, who, before the acquisition of this atmospheric watercolor, was represented by a single oil in the collection. Painted just after the foundation of the American Watercolor Society, the work confirms the artist's close ties to Hudson River School painter Samuel Colman, the first president of the American Watercolor Society, who later worked with Tiffany in his decorating firm.

Artist

Louis C. Tiffany

Date

1866 or 1868

Medium

Watercolor and gouache on tan paper

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992