GALLEON IN FULL SAIL

Brief description: Stained glass window depicting a galleon in full sail in a wooden frame. Designed by G Owen Bonawit.

This rectangular panel is made from slab glass and lead. It depicts a galleon (a large multi-decked ship) with a shoal of fish swimming below. The outline of the galleon ship and its ornate frame is formed of sheet lead which is unusually heavy soldered. Various hues of blue and yellow streaky slab glass have been used. It was made by George Owen Bonawit (1891-1971), a prolific New York stained glass artist in the early-20th century. Bonawit and the Modern Art Glass Company of New York also produced stained glass for a number of prestigious American universities, including numerous windows for the Sterling library at Yale University, which are made using the same technique. The whole panel is in a wooden frame and is thought to have been originally fitted into a door.

Object type: stained glass light

Number of objects: 1

Production date: 1

Production period: 1920s

Designer: G Owen Bonawit (1891 - 1971)

Manufacturer: Modern Art Glass Company

Dimensions: Height: 1240 mm, Width: 540 mm

Inscription: painted onto glass bottom left hand corner G Owen Bonawit New Yor City

Acquisition: gift 2001

Acquisition source: Fisher, Alfred

Bibliographical references: Cormack, Peter, Arts and Crafts STained Glass (2015), pp. 216-217.

Accession number: ELYGM:2001.2