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Go is the title of a pair of artworks by the American artist Kehinde Wiley.Both pieces depict young black people set against blue skies. The first piece, a series of oil paintings executed in 2003, are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum; the second is a stained-glass triptych designed for the ceiling of the Moynihan Train Hall at Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
The stained glass of Islam is generally non-pictorial and of purely geometric design, but may contain both floral motifs and text. Stained glass creation had flourished in Persia (now Iran) during the Safavid dynasty (1501–1736 A.D.), and Zand dynasty (1751–1794 A.D.). [27]
He served as President of the Stained Glass Association of America, 1929–1930. [18] He was a member of the Philadelphia Board of Education (1934–1948), and organized art exhibitions that toured the city's public schools. [19] The University of Pennsylvania hosted a 1938 exhibition of D'Ascenzo's paintings, drawings and stained glass. [20]
Detail of Madonna and Child at Church of the Assumption, Bride Street, in Wexford, Ireland. Harry Clarke (1889–1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator.He produced more than 130 stained glass windows, he and his brother Walter having taken over his father's studio after his death in 1921. [1]
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One of the most prestigious stained glass commissions of the 19th century, the re-glazing of the 13th-century east window of Lincoln Cathedral, Ward and Nixon, 1855. A revival of the art and craft of stained-glass window manufacture took place in early 19th-century Britain, beginning with an armorial window created by Thomas Willement in 1811–12. [1]
A locomotive or train can play many roles in art, for example: . As the main subject of a painting, sculpture, or photograph; As a work of art in itself in addition to most functional considerations, especially in streamlined steam locomotives and luxury passenger accommodations of the early 20th century, known also as the Machine Age
Woodroffe's first illustrated book, entitled Ye Booke of Nursery Rhymes, was published in 1895 whilst he was still at the Slade, and on leaving the Slade he concentrated on further book illustration and then stained glass, and was to work with books and windows for the rest of his life. Woodroffe was a prolific illustrator.