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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Flower Form Sketch
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Flower Form Sketch

Artist James A. Stewart (American, -1967)
CultureAmerican
Date1896
MediumPastel | Pencil | Paper
DimensionsOverall: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Inscribed"Flower Form / Made by T. Manderson 1896 / Opal & Ruby / Body Light Yellow Cup / with Rudy Thread On / Edge of Leaves Same / On / Foot"
Credit LineGift of Robert and Gladys Koch
Object number96.4.2B
Not on view
DescriptionFrom a collection of 41 color sketches by a former Tiffany gaffer. Twenty-one of the images are contained in a spiral-bound artist's sketch pad, and the remaining twenty sketches are on individual sheets of paper. All but two are executed in pencil and oil pastel; one is in tempera paint and the other in oil paint.

Published ReferencesRobert Koch, LOUIS C. TIFFANY'S GLASS-BRONZE-LAMPS: A COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971), fig. 69, p. 74.