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The Tiffany Rainbow Window
In 1910, the Tiffany Rainbow Window, depicting the 23rd Psalm, was given in memory of one of the church's early members, Margaret Standart Watson, by her daughter, Janet Seward, the daughter-in-law of Lincoln’s Secretary of State. The Rainbow Window is a prime example of Tiffany's landscape windows, rare among religious commissions and considered his supreme achievements in stained glass. Louis Comfort Tiffany began his career as a painter, but quickly moved to interior decorations and leaded glass windows, creating a revolutionary technique using opalescent colored glass, rather than painted glass. Using variations in color, thickness of glass, and creative application techniques, Tiffany achieved pictorial effects of unsurpassed subtlety and beauty.
In 1910, the Tiffany Rainbow Window, depicting the 23rd Psalm, was given in memory of one of the church's early members, Margaret Standart Watson, by her daughter, Janet Seward, the daughter-in-law of Lincoln’s Secretary of State. The Rainbow Window is a prime example of Tiffany's landscape windows, rare among religious commissions and considered his supreme achievements in stained glass. Louis Comfort Tiffany began his career as a painter, but quickly moved to interior decorations and leaded glass windows, creating a revolutionary technique using opalescent colored glass, rather than painted glass. Using variations in color, thickness of glass, and creative application techniques, Tiffany achieved pictorial effects of unsurpassed subtlety and beauty.