Hear the Curator

This window was created by the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany, one of the most famous American artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It depicts a woodland scene that continues across all three frames, as if one were looking through a window at an actual landscape. In the foreground, a clump of purple and white irises borders a small stream, which meanders through a grove of birch trees to hills dotted with cypresses. In the background the setting sun colors the sky and hills in deep reds, oranges, and purples.

The window was originally installed in the Newark, New Jersey, home of Elizabeth and Percy Ballantine, a member of Princeton’s Class of 1902. Percy was the grandson of Peter Ballantine, who founded P. Ballantine and Sons, a New Jersey-based brewery. Percy’s son Norman, Class of 1935, donated the window to the Art Museum in 1967 in memory of his father, brother, and nephew.