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Design for beatitude window in presentation portfolio for Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts

Designer Frederick Wilson American, born Ireland
1905
Not on view
This highly finished presentation drawing is for one of six figural windows depicting the beatitudes in the balcony of the Arlington Street Church in Boston. Wilson originally created ten window designs representing the blessings by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1–12), six of which were executed in glass. It is likely that this drawing was formally presented to the Arlington Street Church—it is mounted in a green cloth-covered portfolio with the Tiffany Studios’s monogram on the cover. Several years earlier, Wilson designed a different beatitude window for Calvary Church in Summit, New Jersey. A critic from the New York Times praised Wilson’s success in translating “purely abstract definitions of principles…into the language of the illustrator.”

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Object Information
  • Title: Design for beatitude window in presentation portfolio for Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Artist: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
  • Designer: Frederick Wilson (American (born Ireland), Dublin 1858–1932 Los Angeles, California) 1858-1932
  • Maker: Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
  • Date: 1905
  • Geography: Made in New York, United States; Country of Origin USA
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Watercolor, gouache, brown ink, and graphite on artist board with mat
  • Dimensions: Overall (closed): 13 3/4 × 8 9/16 in. (34.9 × 21.7 cm)
    Overall (open) and CUSTOM case: 13 3/4 × 17 3/8 in. (34.9 × 44.1 cm)
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
  • Object Number: 67.654.398
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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