Window from Darwin D. Martin House
Manufacturer
Linden Glass Co.
(American, 1890 - 1934)
Designer
Frank Lloyd Wright
(American, 1867-1959)
Dateca. 1903-1909
MediumLeaded glass with brass cames
DimensionsOverall: 39 1/2 x 26 7/8 in. (100.3 x 68.3 cm)
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineMuseum purchase and gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange
Object number2003.21
Terms
- Geometric
- Tree of Life
- Trees
- Green
- Colorless
- Yellow
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On View
On viewLabel TextFrank Lloyd Wright, Designer American (1867-1959) Linden Glass Company, Manufacturer Chicago, Illinois Modified Second-Floor Pattern Window from the Darwin D. Martin House, ca. 1903-09 Flat glass and brass Museum purchase and gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange 2003.21 Frank Lloyd Wright, one of America's most famous architects, made extensive use of leaded glass windows in many of the buildings that he designed between 1885 and 1923. This second-floor pattern window, designed in 1903, comes from the ground-floor reception room of the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York. Originally, the lower portion of the window had a border of large opaque white squares, but Wright modified this and the other windows in that room in 1909 at Martin's request. The architect's drawing for this modification survives-documenting the only instance in which Wright is known to have altered windows after their installation. Wright employed narrow brass cames with a triangular profile instead of traditional grooved lead rods to hold the pieces of glass in place. The strength and rigidity of the brass allowed the geometric pattern to be executed crisply, with a sense of delicacy that could not have been achieved in lead.
1907
