A 'TREE OF LIFE' LEADED GLASS WINDOW

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, EXECUTED BY THE LINDEN GLASS CO. FOR THE DARWIN MARTIN HOUSE, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1903-1905

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A 'TREE OF LIFE' LEADED GLASS WINDOW
Frank Lloyd Wright, executed by the Linden Glass Co. for the Darwin Martin House, Buffalo, New York, circa 1903-1905
Depicting three highly stylized tree-like devices set in pots of square design, a combination of opaque, clear and iridescent glass, the latter refractive and reflective, the caming of copper-plated zinc
43¾in. (111.1cm.) high, 28½in. (72.3cm.) wide, framed

Provenance

Richard Feigen

Lot Essay

cf. Robert Judson Clark, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916, 1972, p. 74, fig. 95; David A. Hanks, The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1979, p. 96, pl. 8; Diane C. Johnson, American Art Nouveau, 1979, p. 89; The Prairie Archives of the Milwaukee Art Center, Brian A. Spencer, ed., The Prairie School Tradition, 1979, p. 58; David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Preserving an Architectural Heritage: Decorative Designs from the Domino's Pizza Collection, 1989, p. 55; Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Selected Houses, 1, 1991, p. 157; Thomas A. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright Glass Art, 1994, p. 98 for illustrations of this window design, which is also illustrated in period photographs of the special exhibition of drawings and models by Frank Lloyd Wright at the Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, 1907.