Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum to Present Legendary Met Curator and Tiffany Talk

On Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, 2-4 p.m., The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will present a talk by renowned curator Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen titled, “Women and the Art of Tiffany Studios: A Garden Landscape Window.”

The talk will be held at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT. To reserve tickets, attendees can visit the Events page on the Museum’s website at www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com. Admission is $15 for members, $20 for non-members. Light refreshments will be offered following the presentation.

Lecture Committee Chair Kathy Olsen, CPA said: “I am thrilled to present to our audiences the legendary Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and her fascinating talk. Guests will immerse themselves in the beauty and creative genius of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s artwork and learn about the women who helped him achieve his masterpieces.”

This lecture will focus on an extraordinary new acquisition at the Met from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany of a luxuriant garden landscape. An exceptional work of art on all levels, it also holds several stories that are critical to its conception and realization, many of which highlight the important, but often overlooked, part played by women in the art of Louis Tiffany. The lecture will explore the roles of the window’s patron and designer, as well as the women who crafted it. It will also highlight innovations made by Tiffany Studios’ innovations in glass and

will place the window within the broader cultural landscape of the United States of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen graduated from Princeton University and earned an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. She started her career at the Metropolitan Museum as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. Since then, Frelinghuysen has curated, published, and lectured widely on the subject of American ceramics, glass, stained glass, and late 19th-century furniture, as well as all aspects of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany. In 2016, she was invited to be the Clarice Smith Distinguished Scholar Lecture for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., and in 2014, she was awarded the Frederic E. Church Award for contributions to American Culture. Frelinghuysen’s purview includes 18th- to early 20th-century ceramics and glass; furniture of the Gilded Age and Arts & Crafts Movement; and the work of Louis C. Tiffany. In addition to her permanent displays, including oversight of the 2009 Charles Engelhard Court reinstallation, she has curated exhibitions and authored publications on a wide range of topics. Frelinghuysen was the lead curator of the exhibition, “Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age,” which includes the installation of the Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room in The American Wing, and an exhibition on the furniture of George A. Schastey. She co-authored a book on the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of American Art Pottery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Frelinghuysen is currently the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has published widely on American glass, ceramics, stained glass, Gilded Age furniture and patronage, and many aspects of the work of Louis C. Tiffany.

LMMM’s Lecture Series is sponsored in part by The DiNardo-Aiello Family Fund Designer/Artist/Author Gail Ingis and Ronald & Joanne Salvatore. LMMM’s 2025 programs are made possible in part by LMMM’s Founding Patrons: The Estate of Mrs. Cynthia Clark Brown; LMMM’s Leadership Patrons: Dr. Michele & Attorney Miklos Koleszar and The Sealark Foundation; and LMMM’s 2025 Season Distinguished Benefactors: The City of Norwalk, The Maurice Goodman Foundation, Inc., and Lockwood-Mathews Foundation, Inc. For more information on tours and programs, please visit www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com, email info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com, or call 203-838-9799.