Agnes Northrop
{{short description|American glass artist (1857-1953)}}
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| death_place = Gramercy Park Hotel, Manhattan, New York
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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.{{cite web |title=Working drawing for a lampshade |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/16772 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=30 March 2024}} 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.{{cite web |title=Article: Celebrating Agnes Northrop |url=https://www.bownehouse.org/agnesnorthrop |website=Bowne House |access-date=30 March 2024}}
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.{{cite web |title=Tiffany Glass A Passion For Color |url=https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/iffany-glass-a-passion-for-color/ |website=Antiques and The Arts Weekly |access-date=30 March 2024 |date=2 March 2010}}
Northrup worked for Tiffany for close to 50 years.{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Kate |title=Tiffany Girls: Designers in the Workroom |url=https://americacomesalive.com/tiffany-girls-designers-in-the-workroom/ |website=America Comes Alive |access-date=31 March 2024 |date=19 April 2021}}
Northrup died at the Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan in 1953.{{Cite web |title=Glass Gardens: Agnes Northrop Designs for Louis C. Tiffany {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum |url=https://americanart.si.edu/blog/eye-level/2016/27/305/glass-gardens-agnes-northrop-designs-louis-c-tiffany |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=americanart.si.edu |language=en}} She never married.
Work in public collections
File:Agnes Northrop Garden Landscape triptych at the Met.jpg
Her work is in the Art Institute of Chicago,{{cite web |title=Agnes Northrop Moves to the Art Institute |url=https://classicchicagomagazine.com/agnes-northrop-moves-to-the-art-institute/ |website=Classic Chicago Magazine |access-date=30 March 2024 |date=26 June 2021}} the Driehaus Museum,{{cite web |title=Landscape by Agnes Northrop |url=https://driehausmuseum.org/blog/view/from-the-collection-landscape-by-agnes-northrop |website=Driehaus Museum |access-date=30 March 2024}} the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art,{{cite web |title=Magnolia and Skeeters |url=https://morsemuseum.org/collection-highlights/paintings/magnolia-and-skeeters-watercolor-study-by-agnes-northrup/ |website=The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art |access-date=30 March 2024}} and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.{{cite web |title=Tiffany Studios {{!}} Autumn Landscape |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/282?sortBy=Relevance&ft=Agnes+F.+Northrop&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=2 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=30 March 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Velie |first1=Elaine |title=An Exemplary Tiffany Stained-Glass Window Is Coming to The Met |url=https://hyperallergic.com/861013/an-exemplary-tiffany-stained-glass-window-is-coming-to-the-met/ |website=Hyperallergic |access-date=31 March 2024 |date=7 December 2023}}
In 2024 the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled a stained glass triptych by Northrup entitled Garden Landscape.{{cite web |title=Met acquires large Tiffany window by Agnes Northrop |url=https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/69148 |website=The History Blog |access-date=30 March 2024 |date=1 January 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Babbs |first1=Verity |title=See the Monumental Tiffany Stained-Glass Window the Met Just Acquired |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-met-museum-acquires-tiffany-stained-glass-window-2407462 |website=Artnet News |access-date=30 March 2024 |date=12 December 2023}} The window was commissioned by businesswoman Sarah B. Cochran for her estate, Linden Hall at Saint James Park, inspired by her own garden. The window design is directly attributed to Northrop from a signed design drawing also held in the Met collection.{{Citation |title=3-part Garden landscape window for Linden Hall |date=1912 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/899795 |access-date=2025-03-14}}{{Citation |last=Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York) |title=Design for window for Sarah Cochran, Linden Hall, Dawson, Pennsylvania |date=1912 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/16466 |access-date=2025-03-14}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVIouHWPFU The Garden as a Picture: Agnes Northrop’s Stained-Glass Designs for Louis C.Tiffany] Smithsonian Associates lecture by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
- {{Find a Grave|157834856}} (photo of headstone with birth and death dates engraved.)
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Category:People from Flushing, Queens
Category:American stained glass artists and manufacturers