Design for a Tray
Tiffany Studios
Leslie Hayden Nash American
Not on view
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.
