A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (AMERICAN 1867-1959) LEADED GLASS WINDOW FROM THE DARWIN D. MARTIN HOUSE, BUFFALO, NEW YORK . Produced ...

Description

A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (AMERICAN 1867-1959) LEADED GLASS WINDOW FROM THE DARWIN D. MARTIN HOUSE, BUFFALO, NEW YORK
Produced by Linden Glass Company, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1904
Unmarked
25-3/8 x 16-1/2 inches (64.5 x 41.9 cm)

The window with stylized geometric trees executed in colored glass in several shades of transparent green, amber and white, and opaque opalescent, gold and iridized gold glass, the glass pieces each set at slightly different angle, in brass canes.

This lot is the upper portion of a Tree of Life window from the Martin House (1904-1905), part of the Darwin D. Martin House Complex, and is one of more than sixty windows and doors in this pattern created for the house. The window, which originally extended to stylized trunk and roots, was removed from the home which was abandoned from 1938 to 1954 and remodeled in the 1960s. At the time of the remodeling many irreplaceable parts of the house were sold or scrapped. This window was salvaged from a Buffalo dump, with damage beyond repair to the bottom segment.

Other examples of this window are represented in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Australia..

PROVENANCE:
Darwin D. Martin House
Private New York Collection from the early 1960s

More information about FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. See also: Wright, Frank Lloyd, Rait, Frank Lloid, Rayt, Frank Luyd, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Lincoln Wright Artist.



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