Design for beatitude stained-glass window for Arlington Street Church, Boston, 1905
Frederick Wilson (1858–1932)
American
Tiffany Studios (1902–1938)
Watercolor, gouache, opaque white, brown ink, and graphite, mounted on paper in portfolio, 10 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (26.7 x 14 cm)
Inscriptions: SCALE 1 INCH=1 FOOT. Copyright 1905 by Frederick Wilson / Arlington Street Church / North Side
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967 (67.654.398)

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This design, signed by designer Frederick Wilson and dated 1905, is a proposal for one of six figural windows based on the beatitudes for the balcony of the Arlington Street Church in Boston. Tiffany's firm had already provided stained glass for the church's main floor. A highly finished rendering, the delicate washes of the medium aptly evoke the final opalescent glass. A more sumptuous presentation than most, the drawing is mounted in a green cloth-covered portfolio with the Tiffany Studios' monogram on the cover.


 


 
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