28 Facts About Margaret Redmond

Margaret Redmond's work is characteristic of the medieval revival style, inspired by the fourteenth and fifteenth century stained glass of French and English cathedrals.

Margaret Redmond chose innovative glass materials, vibrant colors and thick leading designs for her windows, favored by the leading stained glass artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England.

Margaret Redmond is best known for her stained glass work from the 1920s to the 1940s, which can be found in churches, museums, homes and libraries from New Jersey to Maine.

Margaret Redmond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1867 and lived in the city until 1905.

Margaret Redmond began her art studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she exhibited her work, mostly landscapes and floral studies between 1895 and 1904.

Margaret Redmond studied art in New York with J Alden Weir and John Henry Twachtman, both prominent painters in the American Impressionistic movement.

Margaret Redmond bought a farm and old house in Nelson, New Hampshire in 1904, which she used as a summer home and art studio.

Margaret Redmond later moved to Boston in 1906 into the newly opened Fenway Studio Building.

Margaret Redmond studied with influential art scholar, Denman Ross, who was an early associate of artist Sarah W Whitman.

Margaret Redmond developed an interest in the revival of medieval glass, a movement being led by artist, Christopher Whall in England.

In Paris, Margaret Redmond took art classes with Lucien Simon and Ernest Millard at the Academie Colarossi.

When Margaret Redmond returned to Boston, she worked with Charles Connick, the leader in American stained glass.

Under Connick's supervision, Margaret Redmond acquired the skills of stained glass design and glazing.

Margaret Redmond created her first window, a glass medallion, under Connick's guidance.

Margaret Redmond later joined Connick's studio, working on her own stained glass commissions from 1917 to 1920.

Margaret Redmond's style was characteristic of the modern medievalism employed by Ralph Adams Cram, but she did not enter his neo-Gothic brotherhood.

Cram's world was a masculine one, and Margaret Redmond never worked on window designs for his numerous architectural projects.

Indeed, "one mention of Cram's name would set Miss Margaret Redmond sputtering," later recalled one of her friends.

Margaret Redmond selected English glass for all her work, mostly antique and slab glass.

Margaret Redmond would spend summers at her house in New Hampshire, often teaching summer art classes as well as working on commissions.

One of Margaret Redmond's first stained glass commissions was a series of six windows of individual saints for St Paul's Episcopal Church in Englewood, New Jersey.

Margaret Redmond created stained glass for churches, public buildings and residences primarily in and around Boston, but her work can be found from New Jersey to Maine.

In 1927, Margaret Redmond was interviewed by writer Helen Fitzgerald, of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in her Newbury Street studio.

Margaret Redmond exhibited her work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Architectural League, and in exhibitions in Boston and Philadelphia.

Margaret Redmond was founding member of The Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston in 1897.

Margaret Redmond created two stained glass windows for the church in 1927.

Margaret Redmond was the only woman artist whose work was displayed in the church's sanctuary.

For Bradley's memorial, Margaret Redmond created a tree of life, using large areas of white glass combined with jewell toned glass.