by Jon Lackman | 7 March 2007 | Americas, Museums
From the Chicago Tribune: “Asking who designed Louis Comfort Tiffany’s iconic lamps might seem the decorative art world’s equivalent to the schoolyard stumper, ‘Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?’ While Ulysses S. Grant is indeed buried in Grant’s tomb, fresh evidence reveals that Tiffany did not design most of the lavish leaded-glass lamps bearing his name, solving a century-old mystery art historians didn’t even know existed. So, whodunit? Clara Pierce Wolcott Driscoll did it. And she, and the 35 women who worked under her supervision, did it very well, as a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society, ‘A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls,’ makes clear.” Martin Eidelberg and Nina Gray share credit for the discovery.
