Agnes Northrop Explained

Agnes Fairchild Northrop
Birth Date: 1857
Birth Place:Flushing, New York
Death Place:Gramercy Park Hotel, Manhattan, New York
Movement:Art Nouveau

Agnes Northrup (1857 – 1953) was an American glass artist. She is best known for her design work for Louis Comfort Tiffany and for work in iridescent glass.

Early life and education

Agnes Fairchild Northrup was born in Flushing, Queens in 1857.[1] She studied at the Flushing Institute.

Career

Northrup started working for Louis Comfort Tiffany's Glass Company in the early 1880s. She worked in the Women's Glass Cutting Department where she served as head of the department briefly before being replaced by Clara Driscoll.[2]

By the 1890s she was a designer for Tiffany with her own studio. She designed several window for the Bowne Street Community Church (now the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing).

Her window Magnolia was exhibited at the 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.[3]

Northrup worked for Tiffany for close to 50 years.[4]

Northrup died at the Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan in 1953.[1] [5] She never married.

Work in public collections

Her work is in the Art Institute of Chicago,[6] the Driehaus Museum,[7] the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art,[8] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[9] [10]

In 2024 the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a stained glass triptych by Northrup entitled Garden Landscape.[11] [12]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Working drawing for a lampshade . Metropolitan Museum of Art . 30 March 2024.
  2. Web site: Article: Celebrating Agnes Northrop . Bowne House . 30 March 2024.
  3. Web site: Tiffany Glass A Passion For Color . Antiques and The Arts Weekly . 30 March 2024 . 2 March 2010.
  4. Web site: Kelly . Kate . Tiffany Girls: Designers in the Workroom . America Comes Alive . 31 March 2024 . 19 April 2021.
  5. Web site: Glass Gardens: Agnes Northrop Designs for Louis C. Tiffany Smithsonian American Art Museum . 2024-03-31 . americanart.si.edu . en.
  6. Web site: Agnes Northrop Moves to the Art Institute . Classic Chicago Magazine . 30 March 2024 . 26 June 2021.
  7. Web site: Landscape by Agnes Northrop . Driehaus Museum . 30 March 2024.
  8. Web site: Magnolia and Skeeters . The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art . 30 March 2024.
  9. Web site: Tiffany Studios Autumn Landscape . The Metropolitan Museum of Art . 30 March 2024 . en.
  10. Web site: Velie . Elaine . An Exemplary Tiffany Stained-Glass Window Is Coming to The Met . Hyperallergic . 31 March 2024 . 7 December 2023.
  11. Web site: Met acquires large Tiffany window by Agnes Northrop . The History Blog . 30 March 2024 . 1 January 2024.
  12. Web site: Babbs . Verity . See the Monumental Tiffany Stained-Glass Window the Met Just Acquired . Artnet News . 30 March 2024 . 12 December 2023.

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