Color Study of Coptic Patterns

1920–27

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.

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Title: Color Study of Coptic Patterns
Artist: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
Designer: Leslie Hayden Nash (American, 1884–1958)
Maker: Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
Date: 1920–27
Geography: Made in New York, United States
Culture: American
Medium: Transparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite on paper
Dimensions: 5 1/16 × 11 1/2 in. (12.9 × 29.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2018
Object Number: 2018.578.2.4
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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