Coming to the History Museum June 12 through September 21, 2025
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Waterlily Vase, 1900, Blown and cameo glass, 6 1/4 × 7 3/8 × 3 7/8 in., Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Image courtesy of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Photograph by Edward Pollard, © Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory.
The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art brings together approximately 120 of the finest Art Nouveau treasures from the rich holdings of the Chrysler Museum of Art. The exhibition includes spectacular and important glass, furniture, paintings, and sculpture from artists and designers such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany & Co., Gustav Klimt, Louis Majorelle, Alphonse Mucha, Emmanuel Lansyer, and Émile Gallé. The Triumph of Nature celebrates the florid, languorous curves, natural motifs, and refined elegance of Art Nouveau furniture, glass, and other works that have entranced generations of collectors and museumgoers since the apex of this brief but intense movement around the turn of the twentieth century. This exhibition will introduce a new generation to Art Nouveau’s luminous innovations and artistic triumphs, enticing visitors once more into these lustrous, nature-inspired havens of ornate beauty—all orchestrated over a century ago by visionary designers, just before the First World War ushered in a stark new reality.
The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art is organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA and toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC.
