An American legacy of color and light. Some contradictions and confusions ; Painters, glaziers, and anonymous art ; Decorative windows in American houses -- Romantic architecture and colored glass. The new material : glass ; Antebellum windows -- Decorative windows for a decorative age. Light for the brown decades ; The best years of American residential stained glass ; Louis Comfort Tiffany and Art Nouveau ; Arts and Crafts stained glass ; Frank Lloyd Wright and the Chicago Exposition of 1893 ; Decorative windows at the turn of the century -- Breaking the barriers of glass art. Glass grain and shaded windows ; Special leading techniques ; Subtle support systems ; Large figural and scenic windows ; Floral and small scenic windows ; Stained-glass animals ; Stained and beveled combinations ; American experiments and innovations ; Special decorative inserts -- The American stained-glass business. Commercial decorative windows ; American windows for American churches ; American stained glass in the fading years.
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