The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation was founded in 1918 by Louis Comfort Tiffany to operate his estate, Laurelton Hall, in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. It was designed to be a summer retreat for artists and craftspeople. In 1946 the estate closed and the foundation changed its purpose from a retreat to the bestowing of grants to artists. In closing down her father's residence after his death, George Frederick Kunz' daughter, Ruby Zinsser, donated two paintings by Louis C. Tiffany to the Tiffany Foundation. "In 1935, the family of George F. Kunz donated two Tiffany paintings to the picture gallery." In this, she was following her father's inclination, since he had previously donated a Syrian bracelet and mineral collection to the Foundation in 1928. Notable fellowship award recipients Guy Anderson, American painter from the Northwest School Marco Brambilla, Italian-born Canadian contemporary artist and film director Nicole Cherubini, American visual artist and ceramicist Mario Cooper, American watercolor painter and sculptor 1949 Marsha Cottrell, American artist Alfred Crimi, American muralist and painter Moyra Davey, New York–based artist specializing in photography, video and writing Arthur Deshaies, American artist and printmaker Janet Doub Erickson, for textile design in 1955, blockprinter, founder of the Blockhouse