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Garden of dreams
Louis Comfort Tiffany • Mosaic, 1916, 487.5×1524 cm
Description of the artwork «Garden of dreams»
Dream garden is an enormous glass mosaic designed by artist Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), and executed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, for lobby izdatelskogo home of Curtis in Philadelphia - home of the successful magazines The Ladies 'Home Journal and Saturday evening. The work was entrusted to Edward Hand, senior editor of Curtis publishing company. Within one month, prior to installation in the Curtis building, the work was exhibited at Tiffany Studios in new York city, attracting over 7,000 fans, and received wide critical acclaim. The installation "the garden of dreams" house in Philadelphia took six months.
Multi-talented Maxfield Parrish was known as the "master makeup" because of its charming illustrations for children's books and magazines. Method Parrisha alternating transparent oil paints with varnish added the illusion of light, his landscapes.
"Garden of dreams" was produced by Tiffany Studios in 1916, using over 100,000 pieces of glass fibrinovogo, each of which is handcrafted to achieve perfection in each of the 260 colors. The partnership of Tiffany and Parrish had been called "one of the major artistic interactions in America, beginning of XX century".
In truth, the relationship between Maxfield Parrish and Louis Tiffany was tumultuous, based on the assessment of the artistic merits of each other. While Parrish complained that Tiffany's translation of his design lacked subtlety and "picturesque", Tiffany replied,skazav that Parrish design sketches were technically vague.
In June 1998, "Garden of dreams" was sold to casino owner Steve Wynn, who planned to transport it to Las Vegas. Philadelphia historians, artists, art professionals (in particular welfare League of arts) and the press protested against the proposed move - and the Pew charitable trust has agreed to provide 3.5 million dollars to the Academy of arts from Pennsylvania, to acquire important work. The work now belongs to the Academy of Pennsylvania and installed in its rightful home in the lobby of the house izdatelskogo Curtis in Philadelphia .
Multi-talented Maxfield Parrish was known as the "master makeup" because of its charming illustrations for children's books and magazines. Method Parrisha alternating transparent oil paints with varnish added the illusion of light, his landscapes.
"Garden of dreams" was produced by Tiffany Studios in 1916, using over 100,000 pieces of glass fibrinovogo, each of which is handcrafted to achieve perfection in each of the 260 colors. The partnership of Tiffany and Parrish had been called "one of the major artistic interactions in America, beginning of XX century".
In truth, the relationship between Maxfield Parrish and Louis Tiffany was tumultuous, based on the assessment of the artistic merits of each other. While Parrish complained that Tiffany's translation of his design lacked subtlety and "picturesque", Tiffany replied,skazav that Parrish design sketches were technically vague.
In June 1998, "Garden of dreams" was sold to casino owner Steve Wynn, who planned to transport it to Las Vegas. Philadelphia historians, artists, art professionals (in particular welfare League of arts) and the press protested against the proposed move - and the Pew charitable trust has agreed to provide 3.5 million dollars to the Academy of arts from Pennsylvania, to acquire important work. The work now belongs to the Academy of Pennsylvania and installed in its rightful home in the lobby of the house izdatelskogo Curtis in Philadelphia .
