POTTSVILLE – A colorful assembly of biblical scenes and mural patterns adorns the 33 stained-glass windows in Trinity Lutheran Church. The windows – painted by once-eminent, nationally recognized ...
The mention of stained glass often brings to mind Louis Comfort Tiffany and his magnificent windows. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a wave of German, Austrian and Swiss immigrants settle ...
Sisters of St. Joseph Chapel, Pittsford, N.Y., 2003 / Third Generation (Valerie O’ Hara, designer). (Photo courtesy of Pike Stained Glass Studios) Back in the early 2000s, I enrolled in a writing ...
VALLEY CITY, N.D.-From her pew, Illa Glandt watched the stained-glass window come to life. When the sun set, the white dove in the center of the 12-by-15-foot window lit up, hovering over the ...
SALT LAKE CITY - Stained glass windows are both permanent and ever-changing. They can't be easily moved from their frame or rearranged, but shifting sunbeams affect what each new admirer sees.
The artists at Judson Studios are showing their true colors -- reshaping their ancient craft and designing works for religious and non-religious uses alike, as Anna Werner discovered: If you're coming ...
I think we can all agree that the idea of stained glass sounds a) old fashioned b) complicated and c) extravagant. We were thinking that, too, until we started to see the translucent colored material ...
Inspired by the popular windows Marc Chagall created for France’s Metz Cathedral, German organist Bernhard Leonardy set out in search of the “Chagall of our day” to create a trio of stained glass ...
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, something better than a pot of gold sits at the end of the rainbow. It’s a church with the only stained glass church windows in the United States designed by ...
Agnes F. Northrop for Tiffany Studios, "Garden Landscape" (1912), three-part window for Linden Hall, leaded Favrile glass, 124 × 246 inches (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) The ...
A hundred years ago, almost every house built in the Bay Area had some stained glass in it. That level of craftsmanship and everyday beauty was expected then, even in a modest Sears Roebuck bungalow.