Important Design

Important Design

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 223. Window from the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Window from the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private American Collection

Frank Lloyd Wright

Window from the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York


circa 1903-1905

executed by the Linden Glass Company, Chicago, Illinois

opalescent, iridized and clear glass, brass-plated "colonial" zinc cames, wood frame

35½ x 26 in. (90.2 x 66 cm) excluding frame

39 x 29½ in. (100.3 x 74.3 cm) including frame


Mr. and Mrs. Darwin D. Martin, Buffalo, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Darwin R. Martin, Jr., Buffalo, New York

Private Collection

Christie's New York, June 20, 1987, lot 79

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Julie L. Sloan, Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 2001, p. 168, fig. 164 (for a drawing of the model)

Eric Jackson-Forsberg, ed., Frank Lloyd Wright: Art Glass of the Martin House Complex, San Francisco, 2009, pp. 51 and 69