'Dazzling' works land at Dallas museum

The Dallas Museum of Art has been on a shopping spree.

The institution announced Wednesday four new acquisitions that are scheduled to go on exhibit this month.

The museum didn’t have any of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s famous windows; now it has two. The glorious stained-glass pieces are from the Four Seasons series, and when these aquatic-themed windows passed through the museum in the 2006 show "Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages," they were considered some of the most beautiful pieces in an exhibition of spectacular works.

A brilliant landscape by Marsden Hartley is now a permanent resident of Dallas. Mountains No. 19 (1930) is a "test-drive for the mountain works to come," curator William Rudolph said. "It’s dazzling."

While it is similar to works in the Amon Carter Museum show "Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism," these Hartley mountains are in New Hampshire rather than New Mexico.

A Gustav Stickley linen chest (1903) was purchased, and it will be featured prominently in the DMA’s 2010 exhibition "Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement."

An early American landscape by Francis Guy, Winter Scene in Brooklyn (1817-20), is a detailed snow scene of New York City.