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Agnes F. Northrop

Anges F. Northrop (April 20, 1857 - September 14, 1953) of Flushing, New York, was one of the first six original workers at Tiffany Studios Women's Glass Cutting Department (the "Tiffany Girls"), in New York City. She had a natural talent for drawing floral and conventional designs. Her primary contribution is the creation of floral windows. She exhibited in the Chicago Exposition in 1893. (1) She was awarded a silver medal at the Paris World’s Fair of 1900 for her stained-glass designs.(2) Biography

Agnes Northrop the daughter of Professor Allen P. Northrop and Emily Fairchild. Her father taught at Fairchild Institute in Flushing, NY, a school established by her maternal grandfather in 1841. She loved drawing and nature and began to work for Tiffany Studios in 1884 and was their foremost female artist. She designed nearly all of Tiffany's floral and landscape windows. She created a window in the Bowne Street Community Church, Flushing NY of a landscape scene and attributed it to her father, Allen Parkhill Northrop, other windows in the church evince her artistry.(3) She had her own private studio and worked for Tiffany Studio until the it closed. She then worked for Westminster Studios. Resided in Gramercy Park Hotel. Remained an active designer of leaded windows until age 94.

(1) Source pg 184, A New Light on Tiffany, Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls. (2) https://www.pinterest.com/TheNeustadt/agnes-f-northrop-1857-1953/ (3) Art Glass Magazine, March/April 1992, page 12