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Winter Park's Morse Museum unveils two new exhibits featuring Louis Comfort Tiffany

Alastair Mac
Oct 14
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2 new exhibits are now on display, “Breaking Tradition: Distinguishing American Stained Glass” and “Tiffany Art Glass”

The Morse Museum unveils two new exhibitions to the public featuring Louis Comfort Tiffany

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, located at 445 North Park Avenue, Winter Park, has two new exhibitions opening on October 14, 2025.

In the nineteenth century, opalescent glass introduced an entirely new painterly and naturalistic aesthetic to the stained-glass industry in America. Opening Tuesday, October 14, "Breaking Tradition: Distinguishing American Stained Glass" explores this dramatic shift, and the ways in which artists adopted and broke from artistic convention to redefine a centuries-old medium.

Artists at the forefront of the opalescent era such as Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) and John La Farge (1835–1910) pioneered new techniques for coloring glass, innovations which shaped public taste and distinguished American stained glass from its European counterparts.

Also opening October 14 is "Tiffany Art Glass," a new installation of blown-glass pieces which showcase the artist’s mastery of textured effects, from smooth-cut Agate to pitted Lava glass.

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Breaking Tradition: Distinguishing American Stained Glass

In the nineteenth century, opalescent glass introduced an entirely new painterly and naturalistic aesthetic to the stained-glass industry in America. Artists at the forefront of the opalescent era, such as Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) and John La Farge (1835–1910), pioneered new techniques for coloring and forming glass, innovations which shaped public taste and distinguished American stained glass from its European counterparts.

Breaking Tradition explores this dramatic shift and the ways artists adopted and broke from convention to redefine a centuries-old medium.

Tiffany Art Glass

Louis Comfort Tiffany’s art glass pieces, introduced to the public in 1893, were an avenue for his most innovative and daring experiments in glass. By the turn of the century, Tiffany (1848‒1933) and his artisans were experts of technique, producing nearly any texture, color, or form.

This installation brings together examples of the artist’s mastery of textured effects, from smoothly cut Agate glass to pitted and organic Lava glass.

Of the many unexpected pleasures awaiting visitors to Central Florida, none may be as dazzling as a stroll through the galleries of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, home to the world's most comprehensive collection of works by American artist and designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933).

The Tiffany collection at the Morse includes the designer's jewelry, pottery, paintings and art glass, as well as his famed leaded-glass lamps and windows. Highlights include the restored Byzantine-Romanesque chapel interior that Tiffany designed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Morse is also home to a nearly 6,000 square foot, permanent exhibition of surviving art and architectural objects from his celebrated Long Island estate, Laurelton Hall.

In the Museum’s galleries, visitors will also find exhibits of American art pottery, Art Nouveau furnishings and objects, works from the Arts and Crafts movement, and late 19th- and early 20th-century American paintings.

For more information: https://morsemuseum.org/.

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