Study for the western Rose window, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, New York

Charles J. Connick Studios · 1935

This gouache model for a stained glass project at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City was a collaboration between Boston-based stained glass designers, the Connick Studio, and the architect Ralph Adams Cram. The dominant figure in the Rose window in this panel is Saint Dunstan, patron of metal-workers and musicians. The encircling panels celebrate the so-called minor arts and crafts: stone carving, manuscript illumination, embroidery, stained glass, metal-working, and woodworking. In the lancets below, the eight major medallions symbolize the major arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry, and music.