June 28, 2011

Tiffany on History Detectives

The PBS show History Detectives just ran an episode with a segment on a watercolor design by Anne Weston. Anne Weston was one of L.C. Tiffany's stained glass designers, though the program makes it clear that the details of her work with Tiffany are very fuzzy indeed, as are the details of most of Tiffany's designers.

There is an embedded video available but I've had bad luck with embedded video from PBS. I suggest going to the History Detectives site and viewing the full episode there. The Tiffany section is the last one, starting at 37:50. You can also download a transcript.

If you only watched the program and not looked at the transcript, note that the name of the stained glass restorer is Tom Venturella, not Paul as she says in the program. I've visited his studio, though a long time ago. He really is one of the best in the business.

I did a blog post on the Minnehaha window they refer to in the program. It was a matter of some controversy last year as a local government agency tried to sell it off to meet their budget. Fortunately for them, they saw the better of it and did not sell it. Good for them.

Posted by Tom at June 28, 2011 08:30 PM