Henry Holiday: His Stained Glass Windows for Gilded Age New York (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781848225602)

Henry Holiday (1839-1927) was a polymath who counted figures such as Lewis Carroll, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Emmeline Pankhurst as his friends. Most significantly, he was unquestionably one of the greatest stained-glass artists of the Victorian-Edwardian period, yet his considerable achievements have not received the recognition that they deserve. Taking Holiday's commissions for New York State churches as its focus, George Bryant's ground-breaking study places the artist's transatlantic accomplishments in the context of the social, artistic, religious, and economic shifts that shaped his success in the US during America's Gilded Age--a period where social hierarchies were challenged by new money and European immigration that ended with the outbreak of the First World War. Also providing a clear understanding of the technical and aesthetic differences that set Holiday's stained glass apart from that of his contemporaries such as Edward Burne-Jones, La Farge, and Tiffany, Bryant's truly original publication, based on substantial archival research, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century stained-glass design and Holiday's achievements

Author: George B. Bryant
ISBN-10: 1848225601
ISBN-13: 9781848225602
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2023
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.35lbs
Size: 10.80h x 10.10w x 1.30d