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It was most appropriate that the
masterpiece of Maxfield Parrish, a Phila
delphian, should find its home in this
city. To-day, in the entrance hall of the
Curtis Building, is a mural decoration
called The Dream Garden, by Mr. Par
rish, rendered in Favrile glass ai feet
in height by 49 feet in length by Louis
C. Tiffany, of New York.
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The work of Mr. Parrish, 20 of
whose beautiful panels are in the Curtis
Building, is well known to the general
public.
Mr. Tiffany, distinguished as a dec
orator and artist, brought forth high
enthusiasm from artists and connois
seurs a few years ago by making a cur
tain of glass for the Municipal Theatre
of the City of Mexico. Aside from the
distinctive beauty of this work, its chief
importance lay in the fact that it was
a discovery of a new medium of art
expression.
As ancient Egyptians used glared
tiles set in cement, so Mr. Tiffany has
set the Favrile glass of his own design
ing in cement. The result is a remark
able luminosity and a gradation and
harmony of color values of exquisite
delicacy. Never before has it been pos
sible to give a sense of perspective in
glass as has been done in this picture.
The most remarkable and beauti
ful effect is secured when different
lights play upon it.
Maxfield Parrish was engaged
many months upon the painting of The
Dream Garden the garden of an art
ist's dream. Immediately upon its com
pletion the Tiffany Studios began to
translate the painting into Favrile glass.
Each one of the million and more pieces
of glass was fired under the personal
supervision of Mr. Tiffany and his as
sistant, Joseph Briggs. This was a task
of more than a year.
After the finished work was ex
hibited in New York it was taken down
and brought to Philadelphia in twenty
sections. The installation in the Curtis
Building was the work of four months.
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The Curtis Publishing Company
cordially invites Philadelphians and vis
itors to the city to view The Dream
Garden. On every business day guides
in the entrance hall will be glad to give
further information that may be helpful
in the appreciation of this achievement
of Mr. Parrish and Mr. Tiffany.
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
INDEPENDENCE SQUARE ' PHILADELPHIA '
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