Dragonflies of glass: the story of Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany girls

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Chapman, Susanna

Rubin, Susan Goldman

Chapman, Susannaillustrator.|Illustrator

Rubin, Susan Goldman

Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
Leesville Community
Middle Creek Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Richard B. Harrison Community
Southgate Community
Wake Forest Community
Wendell Community
Zebulon Community

Childrens Biography

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Fuquay-Varina Community - Childrens Biography
Leesville Community - Childrens Biography
Middlecreek Community - Childrens Biography
Morrisville Community - Childrens Biography
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Richard B Harrison - Childrens Biography
Southgate Community - Childrens Biography
Wake Forest Community - Childrens Biography
Wendell Community - Childrens Biography
Zebulon Community - Childrens Biography

"In the mid-nineteenth century, most women who weren't raising families became teachers or nurses. But Clara Driscoll longed to be an artist, drawing inspiration from nature: from every flower, weed, dragonfly, and even cobweb on her family's farm. After moving to New York City in 1888, Clara was hired at the renowned Tiffany Glass Company, where Mr. Louis Comfort Tiffany was known for creating gorgeous stained-glass windows for churches, theaters, and libraries. Impressed by her talent at choosing and cutting glass, Mr. Tiffany eventually put Clara in charge of her own staff of thirty-five women designers. These "Tiffany Girls" sketched intricate patterns, chose dazzling colors and precise shapes, and carefully soldered and placed each piece of glass to create stunning lamps, murals, windows, vases, and clocks. Yet their names weren't always credited on the finished pieces, and when Clara designed the "Wisteria" lamp that would become Tiffany Studios' most famous, everyone assumed that Mr. Tiffany had designed it. Today, Clara Driscoll 's work lives on in museums, galleries, and private collections around the world, including hundreds of pieces housed by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Written by award-winning kids' nonfiction author Susan Goldman Rubin and radiantly illustrated by Susanna Chapman, Dragonflies of Glass celebrates the innovation, determination, and ambition of the unsung women behind many of Tiffany Studios' masterpieces. Includes a list of places where Driscoll's Tiffany art can be found; examples of Driscoll's Tiffany lamps and archival photographs; endnotes; and a bibliography"--

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Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
Leesville Community
Middle Creek Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Oberlin Regional
Richard B. Harrison Community
Southgate Community
Wake Forest Community
Wendell Community
Zebulon Community

9781419754364

2025

Abrams Books for Young Readers

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Biographies
Driscoll, Clara, -- 1861-1944
Driscoll, Clara, -- 1861-1944 -- Juvenile literature
Glass artists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Tiffany Studios (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
Tiffany Studios (New York, N.Y.) -- Employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Tiffany Studios (New York, N.Y.). -- Women's Glass Cutting Department
Tiffany Studios (New York, N.Y.). -- Women's Glass Cutting Department -- Juvenile literature
Women -- Biography
Women glass artists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature

Dragonflies of glass : the story of Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany girls

Dragonflies of Glass The Story of Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
Dragonflies of glass : the story of Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany girls / by Susan Goldman Rubin ; illustrated by Susanna Chapman

Dragonflies of glass

the story of Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany girls

Art
Biography & Autobiography
Driscoll, Clara
Employees
Glass artists
Juvenile Nonfiction
Women
Women glass artists