Haworth Art Gallery

Haworth Art Gallery
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Owner	Hyndburn Borough Council
Website	www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/hag

The Haworth Art Gallery is a public art gallery

textiles. The house was designed by Walter Brierley (1862–1926), a York architect known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens". It was bequeathed to the people of Accrington in 1920,^[3]

and stands in nine acres of parkland on the south side of Accrington Town Centre.

The Haworth's Tiffany collection is the largest outside the United States, with almost every type of Tiffany glass, including 140 pieces, including Favrile glass tiles, jewels, samples and mosaics.^[2] It was the gift of Joseph Briggs, a design apprentice who left Accrington at 17 to emigrate to the United States,^[2] where he worked for Tiffany for 40 years from about 1892. In 1933, he sent his Tiffany collection home.^[2]

The collection is on permanent public display in four themed-rooms: 'Tiffany and Interior Design', 'Tiffany and the Past', 'Tiffany and Nature', and 'The Tiffany Phenomenon'. Notable in the Gallery's Tiffany collection are over 70

Intaglio' or cut-glass examples, 'flowerform' vases, vases shaped like vegetables, 'Cypriote' and 'Tel-El-Amarna' vases inspired by Roman and Egyptian

examples. There are also samples relating to decorative schemes Briggs was involved with, and his 'Sulphur-crested Cockatoos' mosaic.

The museum also has a collection of mainly 19th-century

John Frederick Herring

and others.