The Chestnut Hill Conservancy is offering a virtual program on stained-glass artist Henry Holiday as the next entry in its “Discovering” series, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 7-8:30 p.m.
Registration is $15 for Conservancy members and $30 for non-members. Advance registration can be completed at chconservancy.org and the Zoom link will be emailed to registrants before the program begins.
Philadelphia is home to one of the country’s most significant collections of stained-glass windows by Holiday, an English artist (1839–1927), yet many of these remarkable works remain …
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The Chestnut Hill Conservancy is offering a virtual program on stained-glass artist Henry Holiday as the next entry in its “Discovering” series, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 7-8:30 p.m.
Registration is $15 for Conservancy members and $30 for non-members. Advance registration can be completed at chconservancy.org and the Zoom link will be emailed to registrants before the program begins.
Philadelphia is home to one of the country’s most significant collections of stained-glass windows by Holiday, an English artist (1839–1927), yet many of these remarkable works remain largely unknown and underappreciated outside the congregations and institutions that house them.
During Wednesday’s program, historian, author and architect George B. Bryant will lead the audience though Holiday’s extraordinary body of work in Philadelphia including Chestnut Hill, Whitemarsh and surrounding communities. Bryant draws together decades of research into the artist, his patrons and the communities that preserve his work.
Holiday was introduced to Americans at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and his first American commission was for the Church of Our Savior in Jenkintown. That window is now in the collection at Woodmere in Chestnut Hill.
Holiday visited Philadelphia in 1890 and, by the end of his career, had designed more than 30 stained-glass windows for clients throughout the region. His patrons included some of the city’s most influential architects, clergy, civic leaders and philanthropists.
The illustrated lecture will feature many of Holiday’s surviving commissions at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Holy Trinity Rittenhouse Square, First Unitarian Church, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, St. Thomas’ Church in Whitemarsh, Epiphany Chapel at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and other regional sites.
Along the way, Bryant will examine the artistic influences behind Holiday’s work, and the role that stained glass played in expressing the civic, religious and philanthropic ideals of the Gilded Age.
The session will conclude with a moderated Q&A. All registered attendees will receive access to the program recording following the event.
The Discovering series, one of the Conservancy’s signature public programs, spotlights the area’s rich architecture, history and natural beauty through guided tours and lectures.
