More Stained Glass

A few more pics from the Smith Museum of Stained Glass at Navy Pier in Chicago. In case you're wondering how I was able to remember what each one was called and the period it was created, it's a writer's secret called...mini notebook and pen. Carrying them with you at all times truly does come in handy. Just ask the friends who made fun of me on our D.C. trip several years back--only to literally come running to me at the National Archives, demanding my notebook and pen so they could copy down info on the Mason-Dixon line, which we had crossed a few days earlier en route to Gettysburg. Uh-huh...you can bet they've never ridiculed my penchant to carry pen and paper since. *WEG*

Landscape With Yellow Sky, c. 1915

Autumn Landscape, c.1890

The Four Seasons, c. 1907-08
(The glare in this one was from someone taking a pic behind me. Had I realized it would turn out this bad, I would have taken a second)

Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows

A mentioning by Kate of Tiffany stained glass on her blog reminded me of the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, which we visited during an extended weekend in Chicago around this time last summer. The museum is housed at Navy Pier and houses more than 150 works of art, many of which were originally from buildings in the Chicago area. I only took photos of about a dozen of my favorites, having been promised copies of pictures taken throughout the galleries by a friend. A good thing I did or would have nothing from this segment of our trip. Nope, more than a year later I have yet to see a single picture from her--whereas I gave friends CDs containing copies of my pictures only a month or so after the trip. Considering the fact I still haven't received pics promised by this friend in 1998, it honestly did not surprise me. Disgust and annoy, maybe; surprise, no.

Anyway, here are a few examples of the beautiful stained glass windows on display at the Smith Museum.

Lyric Poetry

Angel at the Gates of Heaven, c. 1900

Girl With Cherry Blossoms, c. 1890