Veritas: Design for a Memorial Stained Glass Window

D. Maitland Armstrong|Helen Maitland Armstrong

1890–1918 · Watercolor and pen and ink · Drawings and Prints

D. Maitland Armstrong worked for Louis Comfort Tiffany before establishing his own stained-glass company in New York in 1887. This presentation drawing for a memorial window centers on a woman who represents Veritas (truth) and stands below an inscription declaring love for a lost one. Maitland’s daughter Helen joined the firm in 1890; she initially painted faces and hands in windows, then became a designer before finally running the company after her father’s death. A skilled watercolorist, Helen likely executed the figure here but left the garden setting to her father, who had begun his artistic career as a landscape painter in France.

Artist

D. Maitland Armstrong|Helen Maitland Armstrong

Date

1890–1918

Medium

Watercolor and pen and ink

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

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