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Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window for Svanhild Auslander

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Creator(s)
artist: Charles J. Connick (American, 1875-1945)
Time period
creation date: 1932
Cultural context
American
Description
Design for a stained glass window memorial for Svanhild Auslander, Ferncliff Mausoleum, New York City, N.Y. INSCRIPTION: What wall can stand, though Death builds deep and strong / when Love strides seven times round with storms of song! // ARTIST'S LABEL [below design]: Memorial to Svanhild Auslander, Ferncliff Mausoleum N.Y. // SIGNATURE: C.J.C. 1932 / copy. // ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: - ITEM FROM: http://www.locussolusrarebooks.com/pdfs/cat3.pdf retrieved 5/2/2012. The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock, with a recollection by William Jay Smith. Catalogue by James Goldwasser. Locus Solus Rare Books, Ltd., New York 2003 [Item in the catalogue:] 35. AUSLANDER, JOSEPH (translator). The Sonnets of Petrarch. New York: Longmans & Green, 1931. First edition. 8vo, green cloth. Spine darkened, light wear and a few marks to covers. Inscribed by Auslander: “For Marie and Hugh, ‘What walls can stand, though | Death builds deep and strong, | When love strides seven times | round with storms of song!’ | Jo.”
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Work type
Study (visual work)
Medium
charcoal
paint
tracing paper
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Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License: CC BY-NC2
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