While in Chicago I visited the Smith Stained Glass Museum on Navy Pier. I love stained glass and Chicago was a center for that craft in the United States. Most people know about Frank Lloyd Wright and his famous windows but the museum holds more than just examples of those. There are four focuses for its exhibits: victorian, prairie, modern, and contemporary. It’s the only museum in the U.S. to focus solely on stained glass.
I hope you enjoyed the factoids. I took some pictures that day which are below.
Beautiful! (: It’s refreshing for me to see stained glass in designs cut like these–there’s stained glass art in my local parish, but they’re the 12 Stations of the Cross. It makes everything look so..regal. The last design of a sunset looks really cool.
hey, tom:)
i love stained glass:)
thanks for sharing pictures of them:)
I had no idea! I love this. I have always wanted to get a tattoo that looks like a stained glass window.
Denise and Raffy: Glad you liked these. It’s the kind of thing a lot of people don’t notice but is really quite the art form.
Kim: That would be a cool tattoo. I wonder how it would look?
Maybe like this or this!
Wow, those are nice. The first one’s colors are really eye-popping. Thanks for the links.
And now I wish there were affordable modern repro pressed glass ink wells in these lovely stained glass colors!
I don’t collect nor know much about inkwells. I would like to see some in vivid colors though.
I don’t know much about them either. I bought a little cut glass bottle in a flea market thinking it was an ink well and then realized it was one of those old perfume containers. I also think stained glass windows are really glorious lightcatchers.