Reynolda House Museum of American Arts’s fall exhibition (through Nov. 29), Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light, is a traveling show organized by the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in Queens, NY. The exhibition will continue to The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY, in 2021.

Reynolda House in Winston-Salem, N.C., has released a free Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light virtual exhibition tour. The tour may be viewed via the the museum website.

The virtual 3D exhibition tour was created using Matterport technology by David Norman, Principal, Laser Scanning Services Co. of Winston-Salem as a way to make the Tiffany Glass exhibition accessible to those who are unable to visit the exhibition in-person or who would feel more comfortable visiting virtually.  

As a painter, Louis C. Tiffany was captivated by the interplay of light and color, and this fascination found its most spectacular expression in his glass “paintings.” Through the medium of opalescent glass, Tiffany could actually capture light in color and manipulate it to achieve impressionistic effects. Using new and innovative techniques and materials, Tiffany Studios created leaded-glass windows and lampshades in vibrant colors and richly varied patterns, textures, and opacities.

Organized by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City, Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light is comprised of five windows, twenty lamps, and more than one hundred examples of flat glass and glass "jewels" that illustrate the rich expanse of color and light available to the artists at the Tiffany Studios. The objects on display are some of the most iconic and celebrated of Tiffany’s works. Chosen for their masterful rendering of nature in flowers or landscape scenes and for the subtle use of light and shading in decorative geometric patterns, they exemplify the rich and varied glass palette, sensitive color selection, and intricacy of design that was characteristic of Tiffany’s leaded-glass objects. Accompanying these works of art is an educational model illustrating how leaded-glass shades are fabricated and three examples of Tiffany lamp forgeries to explore issues of authenticity and connoisseurship. This exhibition also highlights some of the key figures at the Tiffany Studios who made essential contributions to the artistry of the windows and lamps: chemist Arthur J. Nash and leading designers Agnes Northrop, Frederick Wilson, and Clara Driscoll.

Tickets to Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light are available at reynoldahouse.org/tiffany. Advance tickets are required. View the museum’s updated visitor policies at reynoldahouse.org/reopening.