Angel Revealing a Vision of The New Jerusalem: Design for a Stained Glass Window, Saint Michael's Episcopal Church, New York

D. Maitland Armstrong|Helen Maitland Armstrong

1910 · Watercolor and pen and ink · Drawings and Prints

In 1887, D. Maitland Armstrong established a stained-glass company on New York’s Washington Square and soon was supplying windows to churches along the East Coast. This presentation drawing is for a window installed in 1910 at Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church on Amsterdam Avenue and Ninety-Ninth Street. Helen Armstrong joined her father’s company in 1890, after studying at the Art Students League. A skilled watercolorist, she likely executed the welcoming angel here, leaving New Jerusalem to her father, who had begun his artistic career as a landscape painter. Family descendants gave the Museum over thirty design drawings by Maitland and Helen Armstrong in 2012.

Artist

D. Maitland Armstrong|Helen Maitland Armstrong

Date

1910

Medium

Watercolor and pen and ink

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Helena Bienstock, Cynthia MacKay Keegan and Frank E. Johnson, 2012