International studio (59.1916)

The Blashfield Windows


THE ANNUNCIATION

DESIGNED BY EDWIN H. BLASHFIELD

THE BLASHFIELD WINDOWS
BY GRACE HUMPHREY
The two windows designed by Mr.

Edwin H. Blashfield for the First Pres¬

byterian Church in Chattanooga have recently
been placed. They have a special interest, since
they are the first work in glass by this artist.
Famous for his mural painting, Mr. Blashfield
is also a designer of mosaics, and now tries his
skill in a third art, like those many-sided sixteenth
century Italians of whom he has written. But

this is no experiment, for composition and bal-
ance, simple, impressive design, feeling for colour,
are needs as basic in one medium as in the others.
The two designs represent the Annunciation
and the Resurrection. The tall figures of the
angel, taking up one side of each window, connect
the two, even though they are on opposite sides
of the church; while variety is secured by bal-
ancing the reverent Virgin against the group of
the three Marys.
Visitors to the studio in New York, where the
central portions were exhibited, exclaimed at first

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