Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion
Elka Deitsch is the senior curator, Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica.Elizabeth De Rosa teaches at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Program with an interest in Art Nouveau and American and European art glass. She curated the exhibitionTiffany: Behind the Glass(2001) at The Neustadt Collection, New York, and was the co-curator of the exhibition,Louis C. Tiffany, The Art of Devotionat MOBIA.Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen is Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Winner of the Robert C. Smith Award of the Decorative Arts Society, she is the co-author ofLouis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estate(2006) andThe Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany(2005).Lindsy Parrott currently serves as the director/curator at The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York. She is the co-author with Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen ofLouis Comfort Tiffany: Nature by Design(2009).Patricia C. Pongracz is the acting director and director of curatorial affairs director at MOBIA, and the co-author ofPerspectives on Medieval Art: Learning through Looking(2010).Jennifer Perry Thalheimer is curator and collection manager at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. She co-curated the exhibitionLouis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estateat the Metropolitan Museum of Art and coauthored the exhibition catalog in 2006.Peter W. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and American Studies, Department of Comparative Religion, Miami University, editor (with Charles H. Lippy) ofEncyclopedia of Religion in America(2010) and author ofAmerica’s Religions: From the Origins to the Twenty-First Century(2001).Diane C. Wright is a senior fellow in the American Decorative Arts Department at the Yale University Art Gallery. Her research papers on the leaded-glass windows and mosaics of Tiffany Studios and on Frederick Wilson, head of the ecclesiastical department at Tiffany Studios, were published in theJournal of Glass Studies(2009).