Veritas: Design for a Memorial Stained Glass Window
Designed and drawn by D. Maitland Armstrong American
Drawn by Helen Maitland Armstrong American
Not on view
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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