Earlier this year, the Rakow Research Library acquired a small collection of design drawings for stained glass windows by artists Peter Dohmen and Dieterich Spahn. These original designs, the first in our collection from either artist, were purchased upon the … Read more →
Amid the extensive collection of design drawings held in the Rakow Research Library are 29 by Fulvio Bianconi. Many of these drawings have been recently digitized and are now available online. Bianconi was an Italian designer born in 1915 in … Read more →
Five years ago, the Museum of London donated to the Rakow Research Library a large collection of rolled, full-scale design drawings from the Whitefriars Glass Company, formerly Powell and Sons (1834-1980). This collection, the Whitefriars Collection of Stained Glass Designs, … Read more →
This watercolor drawing is a design for an enamel-on-copper covered box decorated with vibrant yellow dandelions. It was created around the turn of the 20th century by the enamel department of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Stourbridge Glass Company. Tiffany (1848-1933) established … Read more →