| The Dream Garden | |
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| Artist | Maxfield Parrish and Louis Comfort Tiffany |
| Year | 1916 |
| Medium | Mosaic |
| Location | The Curtis Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
The Dream Garden is a 1916 mosaic mural by Maxfield Parish and Louis Comfort Tiffany in the lobby of the Curtis Building (now the Curtis Center) on Independence Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The mural was designed by Parrish and made by Louis Comfort tiffany and it is their only collaboration. The work was commissioned by the senior executive Editor of the company and it's popular title Ladies' Home Journal at the time Edward Bok, under the aegis of the head of the company Cyrus Curtis. [1] [2]
The mosaic is 15 feet (4.6 m) long by {{convert|49|feet|| wide and contains more than 100,000 favrile glass tesserae and greater than 260 color tones.
The mural made its national debut at Tiffany Studios in Corona, Queens in New York City, where more than 7,000 people came to see it. [3]
In 1998, the casino mogul Steve Wynn wanted to purchase the mosaic mural and move it to Las Vegas. This led to a public uproar led by among others the Historical Commission of Philadelphia. Subsequently, the Mayor of Philadelphia Ed Rendell nominated it to become the City of Brotherly Love's first 'historic object' [4] . THereafter the Pew Charitable Trust came forward with $3.5 million dollars to purchase the work. The ownership of the work was given to the nearby Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts but the grand mosaic remains in its home in the lobby of the Curtis Building/Center. [5]