Hinds House Window (c. 1900): Art, History and Details

Hinds House Window (c. 1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (America, New York, 1892–1902).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Hinds House Window
• Date: c. 1900
• Creator attribution: Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (America, New York, 1892–1902)
• Culture: America, New York
• Type: Glass
• Technique: leaded glass
• Dimensions: Unframed: 227.3 x 114.3 cm (89 1/2 x 45 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1966.432

A detail from the museum

This window incorporates layered pieces of glass, producing shadows and creating a multidimensional quality.

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Robert M. Fallon

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Year in Review.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (December 1967): 302–346.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
• Saks, Judith. "Tiffany's Household Decoration: A Landscape Window." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 8 (October 1976): 226-235.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.