Design for beatitude window in presentation portfolio for Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts
Louis C. Tiffany|Frederick Wilson|Tiffany Studios
ca. 1905 · Watercolor, gouache, brown ink, and graphite on artists board with mat, set in presentation portfolio of wood pulp paper. · The American Wing
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.”
- Artist
- Louis C. Tiffany|Frederick Wilson|Tiffany Studios
- Date
- ca. 1905
- Medium
- Watercolor, gouache, brown ink, and graphite on artists board with mat, set in presentation portfolio of wood pulp paper.
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
