Stained glass window
John Scott Bradstreet
1906–8 · leaded glass · The American Wing
John Scott Bradstreet, like his Prairie school contemporaries George Grant Elmslie and George Washington Maher (see 2008.535), was an important Arts and Crafts designer. Like other artists of the era, Bradstreet worked in a variety of media that he integrated into his interiors. He often collaborated with the young architect William Kenyon, for whose home these windows were made. They exemplify the formal tenets of the Arts and Crafts movement, with a natural grapevine motif conforming to a rigid geometry, creating a rhythmic arrangement of leaves and fruit. The twisted line of the leading suggests the vines and terminates in a stylized cluster of roots, giving the windows a strong graphic quality. The preponderance of transparent glass is typical of Arts and Crafts windows. These windows present an intriguing comparison with the interpretation of grapevines by Tiffany Studios also on view in gallery 700.
- Artist
- John Scott Bradstreet
- Date
- 1906–8
- Medium
- leaded glass
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Purchase, Sansbury-Mills and Friends of the American Wing Funds, 2010
