Until Clara Driscoll\u2019s letters to her family were found, no one knew that she was responsible for these creations. After studying art and design, Clara moved from her Ohio farm to New York City and was hired by glassmaker Louis Comfort Tiffany to work on his stained glass windows. He liked her \u201cflair for glass\u201d and put her in charge of the \u201cTiffany Girls,\u201d a workshop of women artists, to whom she sometimes read nature poetry. She began designing lamps inspired by butterflies, flowers, and eventually dragonflies, with their lacy wings illuminated by lamplight. Louis liked the dragonfly lamp so much that he sent it to the World\u2019s Fair in Paris, where it won a bronze medal. Clara was meticulous in her study of nature, \u201ceven pinning flowers upside down to discover how they fell,\u201d which led to her famous wisteria lamp, with its \u201ctwo thousand petals cascading from branches.\u201d Paschkis\u2019 folk-style illustrations powerfully evoke the puzzlelike shapes of Tiffany windows, with vibrant colors set inside thick black lines. A helpful author\u2019s note details Clara\u2019s artistic process for each lamp, which included making five designs (beginning with a watercolor rendition), carving the design into a wooden mold, and then cutting the pieces into glass.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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