Angel Revealing a Vision of The New Jerusalem: Design for a Stained Glass Window, Saint Michael's Episcopal Church, New York
Designed and drawn by D. Maitland Armstrong American
Drawn by Helen Maitland Armstrong American
Not on view
In 1887, D. Maitland Armstrong established a stained-glass company on New York’s Washington Square and soon was supplying windows to churches along the East Coast. This presentation drawing is for a window installed in 1910 at Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church on Amsterdam Avenue and Ninety-Ninth Street. Helen Armstrong joined her father’s company in 1890, after studying at the Art Students League. A skilled watercolorist, she likely executed the welcoming angel here, leaving New Jerusalem to her father, who had begun his artistic career as a landscape painter. Family descendants gave the Museum over thirty design drawings by Maitland and Helen Armstrong in 2012.
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