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Vol.
XXVIII - Journal of Stained Glass - America Issue (2004)
Article:
Glazing 'with careless care': Charles J. Connick and the Arts &
Crafts philosophy of stained glass
by Peter Cormack "Readers of Charles J. Connick's Adventures in Light and Color, published in America and England in 1937, will recall the passage in the opening pages where the author describes the dramatic impact of first seeing Christopher Whall's clerestory windows in the Church of the Advent in Boston. Connick writes of how he awoke to the 'charm of glassiness' and, on subsequently reading Whall's Stained Glass Work, 'became his convert overnight'. Significantly, Whall's windows are the only specific examples of contemporary stained |
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glass that Connick cites as having had a formative influence upon his own work. In this essay, I shall examine a number of Charles Connick's window commissions from the 1910s to the 1930s, to suggest that the English Arts & Crafts 'philosophy' of stained glass, as articulated above all by Christopher Whall, was fundamental to his tremendously successful career and his emergence as, in my opinion, the greatest of all American stained glass artists..."
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