Agnes Northrop

Agnes Northrup was an American glass artist. She is best known for her design work for Louis Comfort Tiffany and for work in iridescent glass.

Early life and education

Agnes Fairchild Northrup was born in Flushing, Queens in 1857. She studied at the Flushing Institute.

Career

Northrup started working for Louis Comfort Tiffany's Glass Company in the early 1880s. She worked in the Women's Glass Cutting Department where she served as head of the department briefly before being replaced by Clara Driscoll.
By the 1890s she was a designer for Tiffany with her own studio. She designed several window for the Bowne Street Community Church.
Her window Magnolia was exhibited at the 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
Northrup worked for Tiffany for close to 50 years.
Northrup died at the Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan in 1953. She never married.

Work in public collections

Her work is in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Driehaus Museum, the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 2024 the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled a stained glass triptych by Northrup entitled Garden Landscape. The window was commissioned by businesswoman Sarah B. Cochran for her estate, Linden Hall at Saint James Park, inspired by her own garden. The window design is directly attributed to Northrop from a signed design drawing also held in the Met collection.