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Well-known artists' windows on display include Louis Comfort Tiffany and John LaFarge, as well as Chicago artists Ed Paschke and Roger Brown. The Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows is a permanent display of 150 stained glass windows housed in an 800-ft.-long series of galleries along the lower level terraces of Festival Hall. Open since February 2000, it is the first museum in the United States dedicated solely to stained glass windows. It showcases both secular and religious windows and is divided by artistic theme into four categories: Victorian, Prairie, Modern and Contemporary. All of the windows were designed by prominent local, national and European studios and most were originally installed in Chicago area residential, commercial and religious buildings. The windows provide unique insight into Chicago's cultural, ethnic and artistic history.

The time period they represent, 1870 to the present, was an era of intense urban revision that featured the development, decline and revitalization of neighborhoods, the development of commercial and cultural institutions, the evolution of artistic styles and the response of various ethnic groups to these changes. The religious windows reveal the national and ethnic styles of Chicago's European immigrants, while the residential windows display the history of architecture and decorative art styles.

The Smith Museum exhibit spans from the 1870s to present day. Many of the windows were originally installed in buildings in the Chicago area and showcase a variety of historic, religious and decorative scenes displayed in different styles.

Seated Woman in a Garden - by unidentified artist

Seated Woman in a Garden - by unidentified artist

(detail)

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Three Flowering Bulbs – by unidentified designer

Three Iris – by Unidentified designer and fabricator

Bouquet of Purple Iris and White Passionflower

Bouquet of Purple Iris and

White Passionflower

(detail)

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Door Lights and Transom – by unidentified designer

Elaborate Floral composition with gold background – by unidentified designer

Elaborate symmetrical

composition with Leaves and Urn –

by unidentified designer

Elongated Flower in an Ornate Urn - Artist Unknown

Floral - by John La FargeAs a contemporary of Tiffany, his stained glass was said to rival that of the European churches in the Middle Ages. He was also a painter, illustrator, writer and decorator.

Floral Landing Window – by Wells Glass Co

Floral Landing Window – by Wells Glass Co

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Flowers in double frame – by unidentified designer

American Victorian secular stained glass windows [1880-1910] were completely different from most painted European stained glass. Innovators like Louis Comfort Tiffany and John Lafarge utilized opalescent glass [the glass itself is extravagantly colored] and focused on illuminating the glass, to let the light itself paint the desired image

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Gothic Revival Trefoil – by unidentified designer

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Sharks Teeth – by unidentified designer and fabricator

Woman of Massachusettsfrom the Women's Building

World's Fair at Chicago 1893

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Woman with Horn – by unidentified designer

Woman with Horn – by unidentified

designer

Bacchanalia - Designed by Italian painter

Raffaello Armenise

(1852-1925)

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Old King Cole window - Designed and Fabricated by Rudy Brothers Company

Flowers in a Ribbon Frame –

by Belcher Mosaic Glass Company

Jeweled Door Light with Transom

– by unidentified designer

Lili's Menagerie - by Beiler of Heidelberg

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In Honor of the Printers–Past, Present, and to Come–…The Conservators of Wisdom–The Antagonists of Error–

The Champions of Good Works–The Glorifiers of Achievement–

The Preservers of Art, The Promoters of Culture.

Fairy Tale of the Snowgirl, 1994. Designed and fabricated by Khaim Pinkhasik. Based on the Russian fairy tale told to Khaim Pinkhasik as a child

Dragon Window, 1991 Designed and fabricated by Theodore Hile (born 1950) and Robert Fronk (born 1958), Peoria, Illinois

Fairy Tale of the Bear attacking other animals – by Khaim Pinkhasik

Fairy Tale of the Bear attacking other animals – by Khaim Pinkhasik(detail)

Michael Jordan window - by Seymour Adelman

The American Flag – by Khaim Pinkhasik

Cominsky Memorial Window1925 – by F.X.Zettler Company of Munich, Germany

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