Lot Essay
J. Sloan, Light Screens The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 2001, p. 106 for a discussion of the Steffens House windows.
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PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST COLLECTOR
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959)
A LEADED GLASS WINDOW FOR THE OSCAR STEFFENS HOUSE, CIRCA 1909
Details
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959)
A Leaded Glass Window for the Oscar Steffens House, circa 1909
42 in. (106.7 cm.) high, 10 3/8 in. (26.5 cm.) wide
A Leaded Glass Window for the Oscar Steffens House, circa 1909
42 in. (106.7 cm.) high, 10 3/8 in. (26.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 20 June 1986, lot 246.
Further details
The windows of the Oscar Steffens house have been compared stylistically to those of Wright's contemporaneous Robie House (1908-1910), the last of his great Prairie houses and one which contains some of his best known windows. The Steffens house windows were based on the chevron and in some cases, such as this one, each window was a complete symmetrical composition unto itself. Others were asymmetrical, based on a half chevron and the full design was created only when windows were paired around the casement.