Stained glass window

Stained glass window

John Scott Bradstreet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

John Scott Bradstreet, like his Prairie school contemporaries George Grant Elmslie and George Washington Maher (see 2008.535), was an important Arts and Crafts designer. Like other artists of the era, Bradstreet worked in a variety of media that he integrated into his interiors. He often collaborated with the young architect William Kenyon, for whose home these windows were made. They exemplify the formal tenets of the Arts and Crafts movement, with a natural grapevine motif conforming to a rigid geometry, creating a rhythmic arrangement of leaves and fruit. The twisted line of the leading suggests the vines and terminates in a stylized cluster of roots, giving the windows a strong graphic quality. The preponderance of transparent glass is typical of Arts and Crafts windows. These windows present an intriguing comparison with the interpretation of grapevines by Tiffany Studios also on view in gallery 700.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.