Connick Window Conservation

The photos below of Charles J. Connick's designs for church windows and gouache and watercolor studies, several of which were used in Adventures in Light and Color, are to be conserved by the Northeast Document Conservation Center when funds become available. These are among the last of the Connick Foundation's marvelous collection of cartoons and designs that need to be conserved.

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1. Memorial to Svanheld Auslander, Ferncliff Mausoleum, NY 1932

2. East Rose, St. Charles College Chapel (currently Our Lady of the Angels, Charlestown Retirement), design, CJC 1945

3. North Rose, St. Charles College Chapel (currently Our Lady of the Angels, Charlestown Retirement), design CJC 1945

4. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Stockbridge, MA CJC 1942 (CJC notes that "I am sending the design which announces very clearly in line and color the spirit of the quotation around the head of the central figure - ' When he saw him, he had compassion on him'.")

5. Sketch for Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, CJC

6. Stephen Foster, Francis Scott Key, Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, PA

7. Astronomy, (CJC received the Pan American Pacific gold medal for Astronomy panel) 1911

8. Mary, Martha, Christ with Children, Marion, MA

9. Frances Skinner; Virgin Mary with Christ Child; All Saints' Church, Peterborough, NH

10. St. John of Beverly, St. Augustine of Canterbury; Saint John's Church, Beverly Farms, MA

11. Lake Forest tracing paper with words

11a. Lake Forest typical aisle window

12. Watercolor sketch by Edgar W. Jenny; The Assumption from the central choir window, Saint Maria Novella, Florence; reproduction in Adventures in Light and Color, page 114

13. Medallion window depicting scenes of Life of young Christ

14. Preliminary sketch La Belle Verrier; watercolor, pencil, ink on tissue paper

15. Sketch, watercolor, pencil study of window

16. Preliminary sketch, water color on tissue paper, Te Deum window, St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit

17. Bottom six lancets of above Te Deum

18. Overview on 16 and 17

19. Development of light, color and painted pattern reproduced in Adventures in Light and Color, page 34

20. Characteristic fragments of Early glass from Canterbury and Chartres showing effects of corrosion, illustrated in Adventures in Light and Color, page 82

21. Sketch Canterbury Cathedral? Adventures in Light and Color, page 234?

22. Sketch in Chartres in a cloudy day, signature, CJC

23. William Penn, Discovering the Ohio, French of Fort Duquesne; watercolor on tissue paper for Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, PA; not used

24. Make a Joyful noise; Christ Church, ?

25. 'In as much as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren', gouache on paper, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, December 1931