Veritas: Design for a Memorial Stained Glass Window

Designed and drawn by D. Maitland Armstrong American

Drawn by Helen Maitland Armstrong American

1890–1918

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D. Maitland Armstrong worked for Louis Comfort Tiffany before establishing his own stained-glass company in New York in 1887. This presentation drawing for a memorial window centers on a woman who represents Veritas (truth) and stands below an inscription declaring love for a lost one. Maitland’s daughter Helen joined the firm in 1890; she initially painted faces and hands in windows, then became a designer before finally running the company after her father’s death. A skilled watercolorist, Helen likely executed the figure here but left the garden setting to her father, who had begun his artistic career as a landscape painter in France.

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Title: Veritas: Design for a Memorial Stained Glass Window
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: 1890–1918
Medium: Watercolor and pen and ink
Dimensions: Image: 12 3/8 x 8 7/16 in. (31.5 x 21.4 cm)
Mount: 15 1/2 x 10 3/16 in. (39.4 x 25.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Helena Bienstock, Cynthia MacKay Keegan and Frank E. Johnson, 2012
Object Number: 2012.400.27
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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St. James the Great, Representing Steadfastness: Design for a Stained Glass Window, First Presbyterian Church, Flemington, New Jersey (one of a set of seven), D. Maitland Armstrong American, Watercolor and pen and ink — St. James the Great, Representing Steadfastness: Design for a Stained Glass Window, First Presbyterian Church, Flemington, New Jersey (one of a set of seven)
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Nativity: Design for the Stickney Memorial Window, Faith Chapel, Jekyll Island, Georgia, D. Maitland Armstrong American, Watercolor and pen and ink — Nativity: Design for the Stickney Memorial Window, Faith Chapel, Jekyll Island, Georgia
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St. John the Divine, Representing Love: Design for a Stained Glass Window, First Presbyterian Church, Flemington, New Jersey (one of a set of seven), D. Maitland Armstrong American, Watercolor and pen and ink — St. John the Divine, Representing Love: Design for a Stained Glass Window, First Presbyterian Church, Flemington, New Jersey (one of a set of seven)
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