Agnes Northrup (1857 – 1953) was an American glass artist. She is best known for her design work for

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and for work in

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Early life and education

Agnes Fairchild Northrup was born in

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in 1857. She studied at the Flushing Institute.

Career

Northrup started working for

's Glass Company in the early 1880s. She worked in the Women's Glass Cutting Department where she served as head of the department briefly before being replaced by Clara Driscoll. By the 1890s she was a designer for Tiffany with her own studio. She designed several window for the Bowne Street Community Church (now the

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). Her window ''Magnolia'' was exhibited at the 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Northrup worked for Tiffany for close to 50 years. Northrup died at the

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in 1953. She never married.

Work in public collections

Agnes Northrop Garden Landscape triptych at the Met

Her work is in the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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. In 2024 the

unveiled a stained glass

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by Northrup entitled ''Garden Landscape''. The window was commissioned by businesswoman Sarah B. Cochran for her estate,

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, inspired by her own garden. The window design is directly attributed to Northrop from a signed design drawing also held in the Met collection.

References

External links

The Garden as a Picture: Agnes Northrop’s Stained-Glass Designs for Louis C.Tiffany

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lecture by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen * (photo of headstone with birth and death dates engraved.) {{DEFAULTSORT:Northrop, Agnes 1857 births 1953 deaths People from Flushing, Queens Tiffany Studios American stained glass artists and manufacturers 19th-century American women artists 20th-century American women artists