The Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company (1892–1902) exhibited a magnificent chapel interior as the centerpiece of its display for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Since 1999, the chapel has been on view at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, FL.
In celebration of the chapel’s 25th anniversary at the Museum, the Morse will exhibit Fathers of the Church, a glass mosaic on long-term loan from The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in Queens, New York. This monumental mosaic was made for the 1893 World’s Fair by the Women’s Glass-Cutting Department at Tiffany’s firm. For the first time in over a century, it is reunited with the chapel and other surviving elements of Tiffany’s Columbia Exposition display. Also on view is After the Fair, a companion exhibition that charts the chapel’s incredible journey from Chicago to Winter Park.
For more information, visit https://morsemuseum.org/morse-museum-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-tiffany-chapel-installation-at-the-museum/
The Tiffany Chapel from the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago on exhibit at the at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, FL.
I love the way this article interacts with the museum to further enhance the viewing and history of the artifacts. The Columbian Expo is the grandest of all the worlds expositions in my opinion because it pre-viewed the finest of all new inventions/products which added an era of classic products for our enjoyment iwell into the 21st century.
Will definitely put this on my list of things to do when visiting October! The mosaic is absolutely stunning!