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Chicago Smith Museum3

A hidden jewel of Chicago: The Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows. Located at Navy Pier, Smith Museum is the first [and perhaps the only] museum dedicated to stained glass windows.

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Chicago Smith Museum3

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  1. 3 An hour @ the museum

  2. The time period they represent, 1870 to the present, was an era of intense urban revision that featured the development, decline and revitalization of neighborhoods, the development of commercial and cultural institutions, the evolution of artistic styles and the response of various ethnic groups to these changes. The religious windows reveal the national and ethnic styles of Chicago's European immigrants, while the residential windows display the history of architecture and decorative art styles. Well-known artists' windows on display include Louis Comfort Tiffany and John LaFarge, as well as Chicago artists Ed Paschke and Roger Brown. The Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows is a permanent display of 150 stained glass windows housed in an 800-ft.-long series of galleries along the lower level terraces of Festival Hall. Open since February 2000, it is the first museum in the United States dedicated solely to stained glass windows. It showcases both secular and religious windows and is divided by artistic theme into four categories: Victorian, Prairie, Modern and Contemporary. All of the windows were designed by prominent local, national and European studios and most were originally installed in Chicago area residential, commercial and religious buildings. The windows provide unique insight into Chicago's cultural, ethnic and artistic history.

  3. The Smith Museum exhibit spans from the 1870s to present day. Many of the windows were originally installed in buildings in the Chicago area and showcase a variety of historic, religious and decorative scenes displayed in different styles.

  4. Seated Woman in a Garden - by unidentified artist

  5. Seated Woman in a Garden - by unidentified artist (detail)

  6. Three Flowering Bulbs – by unidentified designer Three Flowering Bulbs – by unidentified designer

  7. Three Flowering Bulbs – by unidentified designer

  8. Three Iris – by Unidentified designer and fabricator

  9. Bouquet of Purple Iris and White Passionflower

  10. Bouquet of Purple Iris and White Passionflower (detail)

  11. Man with Scythe – by A. Raymond Katz Celtic Knot – attributed to Healy & Millet

  12. Celtic Knot – attributed to Healy & Millet (detail)

  13. Composition with Beveled Fans and Large Jewels - by unidentified artist Central Motif of Jewels and Flowers – by Healy & Millet

  14. Door Lights and Transom – by unidentified designer

  15. Elaborate Floral composition with gold background – by unidentified designer

  16. Elaborate symmetrical composition with Leaves and Urn – by unidentified designer

  17. Elongated Flower in an Ornate Urn - Artist Unknown

  18. Floral - by John La Farge As a contemporary of Tiffany, his stained glass was said to rival that of the European churches in the Middle Ages. He was also a painter, illustrator, writer and decorator.

  19. Floral Landing Window – by Wells Glass Co

  20. Floral Landing Window – by Wells Glass Co

  21. Floral, composition with central star – by Sebiling Wells Glass Company Feather Design Door Light – by unidentified designer and fabricator

  22. Flower Filled Oriental Niche – by unidentified designer Flowers in double frame – by unidentified designer

  23. American Victorian secular stained glass windows [1880-1910] were completely different from most painted European stained glass. Innovators like Louis Comfort Tiffany and John Lafarge utilized opalescent glass [the glass itself is extravagantly colored] and focused on illuminating the glass, to let the light itself paint the desired image

  24. Great Red Swirls and Great Blue Swirls – by George A. Misch & Bros.

  25. Gothic Revival Trefoil – by unidentified designer

  26. Round Headed Window – by John La Farge Sharks Teeth – by unidentified designer and fabricator

  27. Woman of Massachusetts from the Women's Building World's Fair at Chicago 1893 Angel

  28. Round Headed Window – by John La Farge

  29. Woman with Horn – by unidentified designer

  30. Woman with Horn – by unidentified designer

  31. Bacchanalia - Designed by Italian painter Raffaello Armenise (1852-1925)

  32. Old King Cole window - Designed and Fabricated by Rudy Brothers Company Lyric Poetry – by unidentified designer

  33. Flowers in a Ribbon Frame – by Belcher Mosaic Glass Company

  34. Jeweled Door Light with Transom – by unidentified designer

  35. Lili's Menagerie - by Beiler of Heidelberg

  36. No Fumare, Por Favore - No Smoking Please - by Ed Paschke Roger Brown Silhouette Window - by Botti Studio

  37. In Honor of the Printers–Past, Present, and to Come–… The Conservators of Wisdom–The Antagonists of Error–The Champions of Good Works–The Glorifiers of Achievement–The Preservers of Art, The Promoters of Culture.

  38. Fairy Tale of the Snowgirl, 1994. Designed and fabricated by Khaim Pinkhasik. Based on the Russian fairy tale told to Khaim Pinkhasik as a child

  39. Dragon Window, 1991 Designed and fabricated by Theodore Hile (born 1950) and Robert Fronk (born 1958), Peoria, Illinois

  40. Fairy Tale of the Bear attacking other animals – by Khaim Pinkhasik

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