The Professor George Park Fisher Memorial Window Maker: Clayton and Bell (British)
Honorand: George Park Fisher, American, 1827–1909

1914

American Decorative Arts

Not on view

On November 22, 1914, Yale President Arthur Twining Hadley, B.A. 1876, dedicated a grand, stained-glass window in Linsly Hall (now Linsly-Chittenden Hall). Commissioned from the London firm Clayton and Bell, the window was a memorial to George Park Fisher, the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History and former pastor of the College Church. It illuminated the stairway leading to what was then the University’s library. Each panel represented notable figures in the history of Western literature, including dramatists, philosophers, poets, and historians. As Professor John Ferguson Weir noted at the dedication, the window was intended “to nourish high thought and enrich the mind.” Around 1970 it was removed and put into storage on campus. This panel—depicting writers from antiquity: Pindar, Sappho, Homer, Sophocles, Menander, and Aristophanes—is the only one known to survive and has been reinstalled in Linsly-Chittenden Hall.

Medium

Stained and enameled glass with lead cames

Credit Line

Transfer from Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Gift of the Children of George Park Fisher

Accession Number

1970.50c

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Period

20th century

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Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography
  • Gay Walker, Stained Glass in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library: A Guide to the Decorative Glass of G. Owen Bonawit (Wilsonville, Ore.: Wildwood Press, 2006), 103W. H. Waddington, E. Babelon, and T. Reinach, Recueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie mineure (1st ed.) p. xx no. xx
  • Richard Conniff, "A Tale of Two Windows," Yale Alumni Magazine vol 73, no. 3 (January/February 2010), 48–49
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