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Tillinghast Studios stained glass windows
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| Musical Saints: Easter Window Based on Psalm 149 Installed 1906  Watercolor - Musical Saints: Easter Window The usual first step in designing and fabricating a stained glass window is to paint a watercolor. Once the design is agreed to and a contract is signed, the studio will proceed to draw a cartoon. Details of the watercolor below:  Detail - Watercolor - Musical Saints: Easter Window Tracery  Detail - Watercolor - Musical Saints: Easter Window Angel playing trumpet  Detail - Watercolor - Musical Saints: Easter Window Reduced size angel playing musical instrument in lower corner is typical Tillinghast and is sometimes used to identify unsigned windows by her.  Musical Saints: Easter Window Details below:  Detail: Musical Saints: Easter Window  Detail: Musical Saints: Easter Window  Detail: Musical Saints: Easter Window  Detail: Musical Saints: Easter Window Angel in lower right corner is typical Tillinghast and is sometimes used to identify unsigned windows by her.  Detail: Musical Saints: Easter Window Most studios use enamel on stained glass window memorial wording, but Tillinghast usually uses individual pieces of glass, instead. |
| Baptism of Jesus Installed 1907. Subject matter and location (east transept) chosen because the baptismal font and reredos, also designed by Mary Tillinghast, are located in the same transept.  Baptism of Jesus Details below:  Detail: Baptism of Jesus Angels above the scene; saints flank the scene. Opalescent glass except for enameled faces and hands.  Detail: Baptism of Jesus  Detail: Baptism of Jesus Holy Spirit in the form of a dove.  Detail: Baptism of Jesus Right panel: St. John the Baptist   Detail: Baptism of Jesus Holy Spirit in the form of a dove.  Detail: Baptism of Jesus Panel #4: saint. Border glass includes jewels.  Detail: Baptism of Jesus  Detail: Baptism of Jesus |
| New Jerusalem Installed in the second building in 1897 and moved to this building in 1906.  Details below:  Detail: New Jerusalem Panel #3  Detail: New Jerusalem Depicts Jesus and a woman, pausing in her daily life.  Detail: New Jerusalem  Detail: New Jerusalem Bottom panels |
