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Henry Holiday : his stained-glass windows for gilded-age New York / George B. Bryant.
Fine Arts Library NK5398.H65 B79 2023
Available
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NK5398.H65 B79 2023
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryant, George B., author.
- Series:
- Northern lights (London, England)
- Northern lights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927.
- Holiday, Henry.
- Glass painting and staining, Victorian--Great Britain.
- Glass painting and staining, Victorian.
- Glass painting and staining, Victorian--New York (State).
- Great Britain.
- New York (State).
- Physical Description:
- 327 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Lund Humphries Publishers, 2023.
- Summary:
- Henry Holiday (1839-1927) was a polymath who counted figures such as Lewis Carroll, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Emmeline Pankhurst as his friends. Most significantly, he was unquestionably one of the greatest stained-glass artists of the Victorian-Edwardian period, yet his considerable achievements have not received the recognition that they deserve. Taking Holiday's commissions for New York State churches as its focus, George Bryant's ground-breaking study places the artist's transatlantic accomplishments in the context of the social, artistic, religious and economic shifts that shaped his success in the US during America's Gilded Age - a period where existing social hierarchies were challenged by new money and European immigration that ended with the outbreak of the First World War. Also providing a clear understanding of the technical and aesthetic differences that set Holiday's stained glass apart from that of his contemporaries such as Edward Burne-Jones, La Farge, and Tiffany, Bryant's truly original publication, based on substantial archival research, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century stained-glass design and Henry Holiday's important achievements.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 1848225601
- 9781848225602
- OCLC:
- 1327987712
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