Luminous Garden: Agnes Northrop and the Women of Tiffany Studios

This Bulletin celebrates a masterpiece of American art—the magnificent Garden Landscape window. Commissioned, designed, and fabricated by women, this exemplary work of stained glass foregrounds women’s contributions to the art of Tiffany. Author Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen explores the roles of Sarah B. Cochran, who commissioned the Garden Landscape window; Agnes F. Northrop, who designed it; and the largely anonymous, highly skilled women who crafted it, all working under the personal supervision of the visionary American artist Louis C. Tiffany. At the same time, the issue highlights innovations made by Tiffany Studios’ glass chemists and glaziers and the extraordinary illusionistic effects they achieved through the manipulation of glass in a remarkable merging of art, science, and craftsmanship. Finally, it places the window in the larger context of Northrop’s and Tiffany’s illustrious careers and positions it within the broader cultural landscape of the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.