Charles de Kay

Mrs. Julia Munson Sherman (1875-1971), member of the enamel department at Tiffany Studios and later the jewelry department at Tiffany & Co.

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artistry in Glass, The Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman Collection, Boca Raton, FL, 2007

Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch, Atglen, PA, 2001, p. 146 (for a related copy)

Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 571 (for a related copy)

A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate, New York, 2006, p. 106 (for a related copy)

Boca Raton Museum of Art, ed., Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artistry in Glass, The Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman Collection, Boca Raton, FL, 2007, pp. 78-79 (for the present lot illustrated)

Timeless Beauty: The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Atglen, PA, 2016, p. 180 (for a related copy)

Louis Comfort Tiffany established his Art Jewelry Department at Tiffany and Co.t in 1902 and appointed Julia Munson (1875-1971) as its first manager. A native of Jersey City, she was originally hired to work in Tiffany Studios’ enamel department. Under her guidance, Tiffany’s jewelry was first exhibited at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition to critical acclaim. Munson married Frederic Sherman in 1914, the same year as the publication of The Art Work of Louis Tiffany. As only single women were permitted to work for Tiffany, she was required to leave the company. She continued to design and produce jewelry for the remainder of her life.