Design for a Cake Basket
Following in the footsteps of his father, Arthur Nash, Leslie H. Nash served as the production manager of the Tiffany Studio’s glass furnace and production facilities in Corona, Queens throughout the first decades of the twentieth century. This group of thirteen sketches, color studies, stencils, and design drawings demonstrate part of Nash’s artistic process and working methods. Nash visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art to created sketches and color studies of an exhibit of Coptic textiles, possibly to share with the firm’s founder and artistic director, Louis C. Tiffany. The works Nash sketched remain in the Museum’s collection, and demonstrate how the institution was at the epicenter of creative life in New York during the early twentieth century, providing access to art from across the globe for the city’s innumerable artists and commercial designers.
Artwork Details
- Title: Design for a Cake Basket
- Artist: Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
- Artist: Leslie Hayden Nash (American, 1884–1958)
- Date: 1920–27
- Geography: Made in New York, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper
- Dimensions: 13 × 8 1/2 in. (33 × 21.6 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2018
- Object Number: 2018.578.2.11
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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