Study for Poppy Shade

Louis C. Tiffany|Clara Driscoll|Alice Gouvy

ca. 1900 · Watercolor, graphite, black ink on paper · The American Wing

This full-scale watercolor study for sixteen-inch conical Poppy shade shows one full repeat of the design, which would appear a total of three times to form the complete shade. From this study, the "selectors," which, in the case of floral lamps, were women, would choose appropriately colored glass from a stock of several tons that Tiffany kept on hand. The luminous, translucent quality of the watercolor medium produces an effect very similar to that of light shining through glass.

Artist

Louis C. Tiffany|Clara Driscoll|Alice Gouvy

Date

ca. 1900

Medium

Watercolor, graphite, black ink on paper

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund,1967