Museum Exhibits

Femenella & Associates can provide a full list of museum exhibition services. The principal of the firm is currently the conservator and curator for the In Company With Angels collection of Tiffany windows currently touring the United States. Mr. Femenella has handled windows, lamps and objects by Louis Comfort Tiffany, John LaFarge and Frank Lloyd Wright for museums in the United States and abroad. We are especially well-suited to assist with traveling exhibitions.

In Company With Angels - Collection Currently Touring The United States

Restoration of seven Tiffany angel windows each measuring 24" x 84". Restoration included: documentation, edge-gluing, partial releading, restoration of wood frames, design and fabrication of decorative display light boxes. Mr. Femenella was selected to be the curator of this window collection that is currently touring museums across the United States.

 

Belasco Theatre - New York, NY

Restoration of a number of Tiffany lay light panels set into the ceiling of the theatre. Restoration included: documentation, edge-gluing, partial releading, design of augmented support system. Complete rewiring of the illumination system. Restoration of metal frames.

Restoration of a number of leaded glass panels to include glass replication and releading, restoration, cleaning and/or replication of 60 Tiffany fixtures, replication of 2,000 pieces of Tiffany glass to include iridized globes, turtlebacks and iridized pressed jewels.

 

Louis Comfort Tiffany "Masterworks" Exhibition - Renwick Gallery, Nmaa, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York.

1. Sarah Fay Memorial window, 5' wide x 13' high
2. Helen Gould Memorial window, 5' w x 12' h
3. Four Seasons window, 4' w x 8' h
4. Peacock window, 30" w x 10' h
5. Cockatoo window, 30" w x 10' h
6. Magnolia and Wisteria window, 4 panels each 32" w x 78" h
7. Magnolia window, 42" w x 24" h
8. Landscape Triptych window, 3 panels each 30" w x 80" h
9. Hydrangea window, 38" w x 44" h
10. Peonies in a Copper Pitcher, 46" w x 62" h

Prepared initial condition reports and conservation proposals. Supervised conservation efforts that included edge-gluing, cleaning, partial releading, restructuring and reframing.

 

Louis Comfort Tiffany "Masterworks" Exhibition - Tokyo, Kobe, Nagoya, And Toyama, Japan.

Various duties in assisting the Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company with the traveling exhibition of 94 pieces of Tiffany glass art at four museums in Japan. Exhibit included 10 windows; 28 table and floor lamps; and 52 vases, paperweights, paintings, and other decorative objects. Prepared initial condition reports. Designed and fabricated custom crating. Assisted the curators with the mounting and dismounting of the objects at each venue.

 

La Farge Exhibition - National Museum of American Art (NMAA), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Restored nine of ten windows exhibited. Consulted with museum staff for designs of light boxes, exhibition space and shipping crates. Supervised the conservation of the windows and the mounting and dismounting of exhibit at two of the three venues. Supervised crating and shipping from the NMAA to Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh and then to the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. Windows included in the Exhibition: Butterflies, Arabesque Fire Screen, Boston Peonies in the Wind, Washington Peonies in the Wind, Fish, Bacchus and Child, Peacock and Peonies from NMAA, and Dawn on the Edge of Night. (Project completed while Vice-President of Greenland Studio, New York.)