American - Author | January 20, 1946 - August 23, 2017
The idea of being close to where pigments were mined - that's the first thing in making a painting, getting the material. And what's the last thing you do in making a painting? You put a frame around it.
Susan Vreeland
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Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.
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I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers.
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When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.
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I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.
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The gift art gives us is that instead of seeing only our own world, we see into other times, which offers a window into other cultures and sensibilities.
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Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.
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I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.
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I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death.
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It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.
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As New York careens toward the modernity of the twentieth century when Gibson girls were transforming themselves into working women, Clara Driscoll enters the male field of stained glass artistry and builds a lively, multi-national, multi-class women's department within Tiffany Studios.
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For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman!
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