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Design for North Aisle Window, Grace Cathedral

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Creator(s)
workshop: Charles J. Connick Associates Studio (American, 1945-1986), artist: Knute Svendson (American, 20th century)
Time period
creation date: design, 1959, other date: window installed, 1960
Location
Installation location: window based on design in Grace Cathedral (San Francisco, California, United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
Ancestral parish of Grace Cathedral was Grace Church, founded 1849. Third church was destroyed in the fire after 1906 earthquake. Standing cathedral took the name of a nearby parish, was eventually built (1928 -) on land given by Crocker family, from their Nob Hill estate ruined in 1906 earthquake and fire. INSCRIPTIONS: [top center rose] Meekness / [left panel, top to bottom] Saint Aidan / [in open book] He that Receiveth You Receiveth Me -S. Matt X-40 / S. Aidan Teaches S. Chad and S. Eata / S. Aidan Ransoms a Slave Boy [right panel, top to bottom] Saint Polycarp / S. Polycarp teaches / S. Irenaeus / S. Polycarp Receives His Apostolic Mission from S. John the Ev. [bottom] In Loving Memory of Henry J. Crocker / and his Parents Henry Joseph and Mary Ives // ARTIST'S LABEL: Design for North Aisle Windows Second from Transept Grace Cathedral .... San Francisco, California // SIGNATURE: K.O.S. Connick Assoc. 1959
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Work type
Study (visual work)
Medium
cardboard
paint
mat board
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Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License: CC BY-NC2
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