Toledo Museum of Art

2023 - 2025

Installation View, ReGift, Toledo Museum of Art, photo credit: Toledo Museum of Art

Installation View, ReGift, Toledo Museum of Art, photo credit: Toledo Museum of Art

Installation View, ReGift, Toledo Museum of Art, photo credit: Toledo Museum of Art

Installation View, ReGift, Toledo Museum of Art, photo credit: Toledo Museum of Art

Motivated by histories Lipman discovered in the archives at the TMA, the project features a three-quarter life-sized recreation of the parlor in Edward and Florence Libbey’s Old West End house. Using the Libbey’s bookplate as a visual guide (the only known image of their home interior) Lipman filled this architectural space with objects found in the image that she fabricated in transparent and opaque white glass.  

Some of these original household objects, including furniture, were gifted to the Museum by Florence Scott Libbey upon her death in 1938 and later sold in the 1990s. Lipman’s project symbolically gifts these objects, along with their stories, to the entire Toledo community. By looking closely at an internal aspect of Florence’s life, the project aims to emphasize her deeply personal commitment to the Museum. It emphasizes her involvement in building the Museum’s legacy and, importantly, the impact of the Libbey’s on Toledo.