The Coronado Couple
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.
Archive of posts tagged stainedglass
Keep Thy Shop
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 …
Friendship Windows
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 …
Rising or Setting Sun Window
Expressing Franklin’s anxieties – and my own – in stained glass.
Second 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 …
Stained Glass – Franklin and Bamboo
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 …
Franklin Stained Glass – Armonica Window
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