Crystal Bridges Show Pairs Tiffany & Co. Jewels with Nature-Inspired Art Through 2027

Key facts

• The exhibition "Nature Adorned: The Artistry of Tiffany & Co. and the American Imagination" runs October 9 through March 29, 2027, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
• The Arkansas Diamond, a 27.21-carat rough octahedral stone found in 1926 on a Searcy, Arkansas farm by 11-year-old Alice Taylor Howell, is the exhibition's centerpiece; Tiffany & Co. acquired it in 1946.
• Jewelry and gemstones on loan from The Tiffany Archives are paired with paintings, glass, minerals, and sculpture from Crystal Bridges's permanent collection.
• The show grew out of Crystal Bridges's acquisition of Tiffany Studios's Mountain Landscape (Root Memorial Window), a glass window showing a waterfall amid green foliage.
• Jen Padgett, Crystal Bridges's Windgate curator of craft, organized the exhibition with Victoria Reynolds, Tiffany & Co.'s chief gemologist and vice president of high jewelry diamond and gemstone acquisition.
• Pairings include George Paulding Farnham's enameled orchid brooches (1889–1893) with works by Martin Johnson Heade and William Jacob Hayes Sr., and Carmen Herrera's Cerulean and Leon Polk Smith's New Moon for August with gemstone facets.
• A Wisteria Table Lamp by Clara Driscoll for Tiffany Studios is shown alongside jewelry by Julia Munson and Meta Overbeck; Nancy Graves's Fayum-Re is compared with Jean Schlumberger's designs.
• Tiffany gemologist Dr. George Kunz, who joined the house in 1880, authenticated stones found by a farmer in Pike County in 1906 that proved to be diamonds, contributing to Arkansas's diamond deposits.