Design for Dean Memorial Window, "The Virtuous Woman," First Presbyterian Church of Rutherford, New Jersey
Frederick Wilson|Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company
ca. 1895 · Watercolor, gouache, brown ink, and graphite on paper with original mat · The American Wing
In contrast to highly finished watercolor designs, which were readily translated into cartoons, this sketch was almost certainly used as a preliminary draft. The trefoil-topped windows depict scenes from Proverbs 31:10–31, a passage celebrating the ideal woman as a virtuous and industrious mother who is honored by her family. In the left window, the bountiful grape harvest symbolizes the exemplary woman as resourceful and entrepreneurial. The middle scene represents a mother’s charity; she doles out bread to a hungry child as the spinning wheel and lamp in the background evoke her industriousness. In the window at right stand her adoring husband and children.
- Artist
- Frederick Wilson|Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company
- Date
- ca. 1895
- Medium
- Watercolor, gouache, brown ink, and graphite on paper with original mat
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
