| Status: |
Extant [PHOTO] |
| Confidence: |
High |
| Memorial name: |
Lusk Memorial Window (Chittenden Memorial Window) |
| Theme: |
Education [TIFF1897, TIFF1910, DUNC1980] |
| Tiffany 1910: |
Page 46 |
| Duncan 1980: |
Page 209 |
| Tiffany 1897: |
Page 29 |
| Signature: |
|
| Other documentation: |
[NYH1888, NYT1889A, NYT1889B, NYT1889C, NYTR1889, NYEP1889, NYH1889A, NYH1889B, NHMJC1889, HC1889, BET1889, BJ1889, EPOCH1889, CRIT1889, NEYR1890, ART1914] |
| Designer: |
Louis Comfort Tiffany [NYH1888, NYT1889A, NYT1889B, NYTR1889, NYEP1889, NYH1889A, NHMJC1889, BET1889, NEYR1890] |
| Memorial details: |
Mary Hartwell Chittenden Lusk (18 Aug 1840 - 13 Sep 1871) [INSCRIPTION, NYT1889B, NYT1889C, NYEP1889, NYH1889A, NYH1889B, NHMJC1889, BET1889, BJ1889, EPOCH1889, NEYR1890, WEB] |
| Donor: |
her father, Simeon B. Chittenden [NYT1889A, NYT1889B, NYEP1889, NYH1889A, NYH1889B, NHMJC1889, BET1889, BJ1889, EPOCH1889, NEYR1890] |
| Date: |
Exhibited May 1889 at Tiffany Studios [NYT1889B, NYTR1889, NYEP1889, NYH1889A, NHMJC1889, EPOCH1889, CRIT1889] |
|
Installed Jul 1889 [NYT1889C, NYH1889B, HC1889, BET1889, BJ1889] |
| Size: |
23' 4" wide x 5' 3" high [NYH1889A] |
|
30' wide [MORSE2015] |
| Lancets: |
3 [PHOTO] |
| Inscription: |
FORM / COLOR / IMAGINATION / ART // PERCEPTION // DEVOTION / LABOR / TRVTH / LIGHT LOVE LIFE / PVRITY / FAITH / HOPE / SCIENCE / RESEARCH / INTVITION / REVERENCE / INSPIRATION / RELIGION // IN MEMORIAM / MARY / HARTWEL(L) / LVS(K) // LAW // RHYTHM / MELODY / HARMONY / VERSE / VOICE / MVSIC [PHOTO] |
| Category: |
Education |
| Cost: |
$8000 [NYT1889C, NYH1889B, BET1889, BJ1889] |
| Tiffany/Duncan comment: |
Tiffany 1910 calls this the Chittenden Memorial Window because Mr. Chittenden was the donor [TIFF1910, DUNC1980, DEDUCED] |
|
Tiffany 1897 (p. 79) quotes an extract from the Boston Post saying that the window is a "wonderful production" [TIFF1897] |
| Comment: |
There is a cartoon for the window in the collection of the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art (SITE:11.7.1) [MORSE2015] |
| ART1914: |
The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany (1914) |
| BET1889: |
Boston Evening Transcript (22 Jul 1889, p. 6) |
| BJ1889: |
Boston Journal (22 Jul 1889, p. 2) |
| CRIT1889: |
The Critic (1 Jun 1889, p. 277) |
| DEDUCED: |
Deduced from other information |
| DUNC1980: |
Tiffany Windows, Alastair Duncan (1980) |
| EPOCH1889: |
The Epoch (24 May 1889, p. 262) |
| HC1889: |
Hartford Courant (20 Jul 1889, p. 6) |
| INSCRIPTION: |
Inscription on item |
| MORSE2015: |
Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art website (museum object 60-010) (6 Jun 2015) |
| NEYR1890: |
New Englander and Yale Review (Jul 1890, p. 92-98) |
| NHMJC1889: |
New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier (24 May 1889, p. 2) |
| NYEP1889: |
New York Evening Post (22 May 1889, p. 8) |
| NYH1888: |
New York Herald (22 Dec 1888, p. 2) |
| NYH1889A: |
New York Herald (24 May 1889, p. 8) |
| NYH1889B: |
New York Herald (21 Jul 1889, p. 22) |
| NYT1889A: |
New York Times (17 Jan 1889) |
| NYT1889B: |
New York Times (24 May 1889) |
| NYT1889C: |
New York Times (27 Jul 1889) |
| NYTR1889: |
New York Daily Tribune (22 May 1889, p. 12) |
| PHOTO: |
Photo of item |
| TIFF1886: |
Announcement in American Architect and Building News, Tiffany Glass Company (6 Feb 1886) |
| TIFF1893: |
Chicago Exposition booklet, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (1893) |
| TIFF1897: |
A List of Windows: And Extracts from Letters & Newspapers, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (1897) |
| TIFF1910: |
A Partial List of Tiffany Windows, Tiffany Studios (1910) |
| WEB: |
Some general webpage, e.g. for deducing biographical or genealogical information |
