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Object Label
In addition to Tiffany Studios and John La Farge, J. & R. Lamb Studio was a prestigious maker of stained-glass windows in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This window, a presentation piece, was probably shown to the leaders of the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, in Brooklyn Heights, for approval to proceed with the extant, large window titled William Penn, Peace Movement, Pennsylvania that the Lamb Studio executed for the church. In the nineteenth century the leader of the Plymouth Church was the ardent antislavery activist Henry Ward Beecher. William Penn, a Quaker and founding father of Pennsylvania, was an early opponent slavery as well, and therefore this subject had social meaning for the congregation.
Caption
Mark Rothko American, born Russia, 1903–1970. Vessels of Magic, 1946. Watercolor on paper, 38 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. (98.42 x 65.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 47.106. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 47.106_recto_PS11.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Vessels of Magic
Date
1946
Medium
Watercolor on paper
Classification
Dimensions
38 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. (98.42 x 65.4 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "Mark Rothko"
Credit Line
Museum Collection Fund
Accession Number
47.106
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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