Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A talk with Marina Ruiz Molina, a conservator of works on paper, is scheduled for Tuesday, October 27, 2026, from 2 to 2:45 p.m. at The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 691. The event will focus on the exhibition ‘Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany’ and Ruiz Molina’s experience conserving its watercolors over the past 16 years.
The presentation will also offer new perspectives on Tiffany Studios’ creative process and artistic legacy.
Many masterpieces from Louis C. Tiffany’s studios began as detailed designs on paper before becoming stained-glass windows, lamps, mosaics, and sumptuous interiors.
The exhibition also highlights a conservation initiative developed over decades that restored many of the drawings’ original appearance. One identified example is Tiffany Studios’ ‘Design for interior, First Presbyterian Church, Poughkeepsie, New York (detail),’ dating from about 1906–08. The work was executed in transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on transparent paper mounted on paper.
