Which American artist created the stained-glass windows known as the Four Seasons in New York?

Louis Comfort Tiffany created the stained-glass panels known as the Four Seasons.

The Four Seasons is a major example of Tiffany’s decorative approach to stained glass. The four panels represent spring, summer, autumn, and winter through richly layered landscapes, vegetation, and changing atmospheric effects. Tiffany’s workshop used varied textures and colors to suggest natural surfaces rather than treating glass as a flat, uniform material.

Tiffany was a leading American designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His firm produced windows, lamps, mosaics, jewelry, and other decorative objects. His name became closely associated with the American Aesthetic movement and with the revival of stained-glass production in the United States.

The panels are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. They are sometimes confused with Tiffany’s famous leaded-glass lamps, but the Four Seasons is a large wall-based window ensemble.