Hinds House Window
Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company
In this window commissioned for the Howell Hinds house around 1900, thousands of richly colored glass pieces have been arranged and layered to paint an idyllic three-dimensional scene that would have warmly glowed in the afternoon sunlight. Located at 2200 Overlook Road in Cleveland, Ohio, the house was demolished in 1930 in a similar fate as other nearby estates. Photographs show the placement of the window in the drawing room next to the fireplace as well as the opulent interiors Louis Comfort Tiffany designed for the library and dining room.
Details
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- Medium
- leaded glass
- Dimensions
- unframed: height 2.273 m, width 1.143 m
- Origin
- America, New York
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs. Robert M. Fallon
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Design Metadata · 99%
The Cleveland Museum of Art classifies the work as Glass and Decorative Art and Design; it is an architectural window commissioned for the Howell Hinds house.
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Visual · 97%
The large central panel depicts an expansive outdoor setting with a luminous horizon, architectural or monumental forms, rocks, vegetation, and lower blue-green passages.
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Flora Visual · 99%
Flowering vines and dense foliage frame the central scene, especially along the left edge, upper canopy, and right border.
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Waterscapes Visual · 91%
Blue-green horizontal and reflective-looking passages appear in the lower and distant portions of the central scene, including what appears to be a pool or water feature.
Visual Qualities
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Patterns Visual · 99%
Repeated amber, yellow, orange, and green rectangular glass units, floral rosettes, and regular lead divisions establish recurring decorative motifs throughout the frame.
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Symmetrical Visual · 98%
The surrounding frame is organized around a strong vertical axis, with repeated divisions and matching ornamental elements on the left and right sides.
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Geometric Visual · 98%
Rectangular frame compartments and rigid linear divisions contrast clearly with the organic foliage, flowers, rocks, and water forms in the central panel.
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 98%
The window uses saturated greens, yellows, oranges, blues, violets, pinks, and browns across both the frame and central scene.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 99%
The surface is densely embellished with many irregular glass pieces, botanical details, colored passages, lead lines, repeated border units, and floral corner ornaments.
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Curvilinear Forms Visual · 95%
Vines and other organic contours create prominent sinuous, winding lines along the sides and across portions of the central scene.
Materials
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Stained Glass Both · 99%
The catalog identifies the medium as leaded glass, and the image visibly shows numerous colored glass pieces separated by dark lead lines in a window format.
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Glass as Material Both · 99%
The catalog classifies the work as Glass and identifies leaded glass as its medium; the image visibly consists of colored, translucent and opaque glass elements.
Source & rights
Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (America, New York, 1892–1902). Hinds House Window. Cleveland Museum of Art.