Wednesday, February 08, 2012

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Recent Articles and Posts:

$2 Million Offer For Church's Tiffany Windows

St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Paterson, New Jersey has had a collector offer them $2 million for 13 of its stained glass windows.

Louis Tiffany created 12 of the windows at the Diocese of Newark church and artist John La Farge designed the other. The would-be buyer wants to exhibit the works of art this fall and has given the church an April deadline to decide.

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Rarest Of Tiffany Lamps For Sale

What is being called the "Holy Grail of Tiffany lamps", a sublime stained-glass shade of lilies in soft hues of pink and green, cascading down in an oblong bell to a bronze base molded to resemble the delicate pads in the water is being offered for sale by the Macklowe Gallery in New York for a mere $3.5 million.

Benjamin Macklowe, of the Macklowe Gallery, said his firm waited for this year's Winter Antiques show to reveal the lamp, which would have cost $400 in 1906 (about a year's pay for a well-employed person.) There's only one left in the world for sale -- the other seven variations are in museums or private collections

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Nun Creating Stained Glass Masterpiece

Sister Anne Therese Kelly, a Franciscan nun and Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Felician College, is leaving an enduring legacy of beauty with a work in stained glass for a campus building.

Kelly, whose specialty is stained glass, is creating a skylight with Franciscan imagery for the historical Iviswold Castle, a 19th century building on the Rutherford campus of Felician College in New Jersey.

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