FROM THE COLLECTION
Julia Henop Memorial Window
Before 1900
Leaded glass
Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company
90.5 x 52 inches
(70-021)
For more than thirty years, Tiffany windows from the chapel of a New York City charity home have been the focal point of the Morse Museum’s Christmas in the Park celebration. These windows, returning like old friends on a joyful holiday visit, represent the largest group of Tiffany ecclesiastical windows in the Museum’s collection. The windows are from the chapel of the residence for the Association for the Relief of Respectable, Aged, Indigent Females in New York City, founded in 1814 for “gentlewomen” who had fallen on hard times in their old age. These included widows of the Revolution and the War of 1812. The Association moved its residence in 1883 to an expanded location on Amsterdam Avenue, a Victorian-Gothic building designed by Richard Morris Hunt, architect for many of the era’s most elite families. The windows are memorials to socially prominent women who served on the Association’s volunteer Board of Managers at the time of the building’s expansion. The memorial window for Julia Henop, who died March 10, 1887, includes tall-growing lilies, a symbol of purity, and a wreath of passion flowers surrounding the inscription “IHS,” the Greek monogram for Jesus, which was later expanded to the Latin phrase Iesus Hominum Salvator, “Jesus Savior of Men.” With as many as three layers of glass in its background parts and some of the lilies, the entire window is made up of at least a thousand individual pieces of glass. |
December 3, 2012
34th Annual
Christmas
in the Park
is December 6
Celebrate the holiday season with art, music, and friends at the Morse Museum’s 34th annual Christmas in the Park event on Thursday, December 6, in Central Park in downtown Winter Park. Nine illuminated Tiffany windows from the Museum’s collection will brighten the night as the 150-voice Bach Festival Choir performs a free outdoor concert of seasonal favorites. The almost two-hour program begins at 6:15 p.m. when the signal will be given to turn on the window lights. This year, the program will be recorded live and broadcast on 90.7 WMFE-FM December 9, 24, and 30.
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Enjoy beautiful Tiffany windows under the stars at Christmas in the Park on December 6. |
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Make Friday Nights
at the Morse a
Holiday Tradition
During the holidays, friends and family make plans for special and joyous gatherings. With this in mind, the Morse Museum invites the community into its galleries for a festive schedule of holiday events on Friday nights when admission is free from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Each Friday night through December 28, enjoy live music beginning at 5 p.m. in styles to suit almost any taste, from classical guitar and harp to popular standards and holiday classics. In addition to live music, curator tours of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Laurelton Hall in the Museum’s new Tiffany wing begin at 7 p.m.
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Detail, Medallion window, c. 1892
Leaded glass
Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company
(U-073)
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Bring the Whole Family
on Friday Night
December 14
Join us December 14 for a special night of free events for families, including a gallery tour, art demonstration, and live music. The family tour starts at 5:15 p.m., followed at 6 p.m. by a demonstration of techniques for making leaded-glass windows with artist Melody Spence in the McKean Pavilion (just behind the Museum). Children attending the art demonstration will receive an art activity to take home. From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., harpist Victoria Lynn Schultz will provide the perfect accompaniment to your family’s stroll through the Museum’s galleries. |
Free admission to the Morse on Friday nights continues through April.
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