The Toledo Museum of Art has taken a fresh look at its co-founders, Edward Drummond Libbey and his wife, Florence Scott Libbey, through a site-specific installation it commissioned from the Wisconsin-based artist Beth Lipman, who is best known for her work in colorless glass.
In 1888 Edward moved his father’s New England Glass Company to Toledo — which is still known as Glass City — and in 1901 the couple established the museum. As artist-in-residence, Lipman decided to honor Florence’s comparatively overlooked role in the museum’s evolution by creating a three-quarter diorama of the parlor inside the Libbeys’ mansion.
The appearance of this long-lost space is known only through a bookplate. To create the architectural details, Lipman used historic glass presses that the Libbey Glass Company had donated long ago. The resulting space underscores the museum’s ongoing commitment to experimentations in glass and to connecting history with creativity today.
Website: toledomuseum.org
Dates: Through September 1, 2024
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