Dimensions: Center panel: 124" x 82"; Side Panels: 88.75 x 81.6"
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Twenty years ago, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen — Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at The Met — saw photographs of a three-part Tiffany window depicting a lush garden landscape and immediately fell in love with it.
Alas, the window disappeared into private hands until a few years ago when it became available once more and was enthusiastically brought into the Museum's collection.
It was designed by Agnes Northrop, one of Tiffany’s premier window designers and was commissioned by Sarah Cochran, a successful Pittsburgh businesswoman, philanthropist, and suffragist for Linden Hall, the large estate she built in Dawson, Pennsylvania, in 1912.
The careful selection of glass and the cutting into nearly impossible shapes of literally thousands of pieces of glass was done by Tiffany's skilled artisans.
Watch above as the window arrives at The Met where it is carefully studied by Frelinghuysen and Met conservator Drew Anderson before being installed in its new home in the Museum's American Wing.
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