TIFFANY STUDIOS (1899-1930)
Angel Window
circa 1905
leaded drapery and feather glass, within oak frame
height 68 3/4in (173cm); width 46 2/3in (117cm) (within the frame)
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Provenance
Private Collection, New Jersey

This design is unusual in Tiffany's oeuvre. It was quite common for angelic figures to be reused in different windows, but this figure was used only one other known time, in the upper section of the Charles and Isabella Steele McLaughlin Hays Memorial Window in the First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA (1905). The figure was designed by Frederick Wilson, at that time head of the Tiffany Studio's Ecclesiastical Department and the primary designer of figurative windows. The face, although slightly deteriorated, is typical of his work.
The angel is composed of beautiful examples of drapery and feather glass in the gown and wings. Multiple layers provide subtle, shifting colors making the gown nacreous. The use of spring green as the main color of the wings is striking and unusual.

Wilson (1858-1932) was born in Ireland and trained in stained-glass in London at the prolific firm of Heaton, Butler & Bayne. He came to the US around 1892 and first worked in Philadelphia for Alfred Godwin for a short time. By 1893, he provided designs for Tiffany Studios, displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1899, he was made head of the Ecclesiastical Department. His figures show a marked influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, especially the faces of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. His figures became the signature style of Tiffany windows in the early twentieth century. In 1921, he moved to California for his health, where he died eleven years later.

Julie L. Sloan, Stained-Glass Consultant
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