I’m happy to announce and document the installation of another stained glass panel in honor of Franklin, Read With A Pen, installed May 26, 2025.– Martin Mangold, May 30, 2025 In May of 1760, Franklin was asked by his landlady’s daughter, Mary (“Polly”) Stevenson (1739-1795), how to become a philosopher. Polly was away from Craven …
More a personal capturing of a tumultuous quarter-year than a Franklin tribute, my latest window is nonetheless founded on Franklin’s nostalgia for France and his friends there.
Keep Thy Shop, a stained glass panel installed in my library/office October 2022 in honor of Benjamin Franklin’s career as a printer. Images edited and screen printed from J. G. Chapman’s engravings for Rev. H. Hastings Weld’s 1849 edition of BF’s Autobiography, texts from Poor Richard, including “Keep thy Shop, & thy Shop will keep …
As a private tribute to a Dungeons and Dragons game that played out over 35 years, I made a stained glass window that combined a saying of Franklin’s from Poor Richard (May, 1735) with a drawing of a boat from that game. Pictured above is the main window in the home of a wizard in …
Expressing Franklin’s anxieties – and my own – in stained glass.
As a paired window with my Franklin and Bamboo, I recently completed another panel with the same elements. This 18 x 18 panel is intended for the Guntzels’ home in Clinton, Iowa: Diane Guntzel drew the central portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Instagram Post View this post on Instagram This 18 x 18 panel is intended …
A few years ago I purchased a stained glass window through an online auction because it featured a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. The exact history of this window is unknown to me, including where it was initially installed, but it’s been part of our home, and now hangs in the formal corner of our home’s …
The stained glass window inside my library window is a tribute to Franklin’s armonica. This was my first stained glass project, a modification of a three-triangle pattern to more closely resemble Franklin’s musical invention. Posted on Instagram. See Also
