Angel Revealing a Vision of The New Jerusalem: Design for a Stained Glass Window, Saint Michael's Episcopal Church, New York

Designed and drawn by D. Maitland Armstrong American

Drawn by Helen Maitland Armstrong American

1910

Not on view

In 1887, D. Maitland Armstrong established a stained-glass company on New York’s Washington Square and soon was supplying windows to churches along the East Coast. This presentation drawing is for a window installed in 1910 at Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church on Amsterdam Avenue and Ninety-Ninth Street. Helen Armstrong joined her father’s company in 1890, after studying at the Art Students League. A skilled watercolorist, she likely executed the welcoming angel here, leaving New Jerusalem to her father, who had begun his artistic career as a landscape painter. Family descendants gave the Museum over thirty design drawings by Maitland and Helen Armstrong in 2012.

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Title: Angel Revealing a Vision of The New Jerusalem: Design for a Stained Glass Window, Saint Michael's Episcopal Church, New York
Artist: Designed and drawn by D. Maitland Armstrong (American, Newburgh, New York 1836–1918 New York)
Artist: Drawn by Helen Maitland Armstrong (American (born Italy), Florence 1869–1948 New York)
Date: 1910
Medium: Watercolor and pen and ink
Dimensions: Image: 10 1/2 x 7 1/8 in. (26.6 x 18.1 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/4 x 9 5/16 in. (32.4 x 23.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Helena Bienstock, Cynthia MacKay Keegan and Frank E. Johnson, 2012
Object Number: 2012.400.3
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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