Stained glass windows by Harry Clarke
Harry Clarke was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. He produced more than 130 stained glass windows, he and his brother Walter having taken over his father's studio after his death in 1921.[1] His glass is distinguished by the finesse of its drawing and his use of rich colours, and an innovative integration of the window leading as part of the overall design, originally inspired by an early visit to see the stained glass of the Cathedral of Chartres. He was especially fond of deep blues. Clarke's use of heavy lines in his black-and-white book illustrations echoes his glass techniques.[2]
Clarke's work includes both religious and secular stained glass windows. Highlights of the former include the windows of the Honan Chapel in University College Cork; of the latter, a window illustrating John Keats' The Eve of St. Agnes (now in the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery in Dublin) and the Geneva Window, (now in the Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, Florida, USA).[2] Perhaps his most seen works were the windows he made for Bewley's Café on Dublin's Grafton Street.[1]
List of leaded glass windows (by Harry Clarke)
| Building | Location | Year | Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Patrick's Purgatory[3] | Lough Derg, County Donegal | 1927–28
[Apostle Peter – Jesus is condemned to death |
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| St. Paul – Jesus takes up his cross | ||||
| Apostle Andrew – Jesus Falls the first time | ||||
| Apostle John The Evangelist – Simon helps Jesus to carry his cross | ||||
| Apostle Philip – Veronica wipes the face of Jesus | ||||
| Apostle Bartholomew – Jesus Falls the second time | ||||
| Apostle Thomas – The Women of Jerusalem weep for Jesus | ||||
| Apostle Matthew – Jesus falls the third time | ||||
| Apostle James the Less – Jesus is stripped of his clothes | ||||
| Apostle Thaddeus – Jesus is nailed to the cross | ||||
| Apostle Simon – Jesus dies on the cross | ||||
| St. Matthias – The body of Jesus is taken from the Cross | ||||
| Our Blessed Lady – The body of Jesus is laid in the tomb | ||||
| Laurence Ambrose Waldron House[4] | Dublin | 1917 | Queens of Sheba, Meath and Connaught | 9 Frieze Windows based on J.M. Synge poem 'Queens' |
| Queens men drew like Monna Lisa | ||||
| Lucrenzia Crivelli | ||||
| Queens in Glenmacnass | ||||
| Etain, Helen Maeve and Fand | ||||
| Bert | ||||
| Queens who cut the bogs of Glanna | ||||
| Queens who wasted the East by proxy | ||||
| Queen of all are living or have been | ||||
| Eneriley and Kilbride Church | Arklow, County Wicklow | Resurrection window | ||
| Castletownshend Church | County Cork | 1918–20 | The Nativity | 1918 |
| St. Louis IX and St. Martin of Tours dividing his Cloak for a Beggar | 1920 | |||
| St. Luke | 1926 | |||
| Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Timoleague | County Cork | 1929–30 | Holy Family and Flight into Egypt | 1912 |
| Coronation of the Virgin | ||||
| Assumption | ||||
| Christ meets his mother | ||||
| Miracle of Cana | ||||
| Death of St. Joseph | ||||
| Carrickmacross Church[5] | County Monaghan | 1925 | St. Oliver Plunkett | |
| St. Rita | ||||
| St. Laurence O'Toole | ||||
| St. Dabhac | ||||
| Death of Our Lady | ||||
| Entombment of Christ | ||||
| St. Kieran | ||||
| Death of St. Joseph | ||||
| Death of St. Patrick | ||||
| St. Dympna | ||||
| Chapel of the Noel Family | Exton Park, Rutland, England | 1926 | Blessed Oliver Plunkett and Blessed Thomas More | |
| St. Mary's Church | Sturminster Newton, Dorset | 1920–21 | Our Lady and child, with St. Elizabeth and St. Barbara | |
| Holy Trinity Church | Killiney, Dublin | 1919 | Angel of Hope and Peace | |
| St. Michael and St. John | Cloughjordan, County Tipperary | 1924 | The Ascension with 5 Irish saints and St. Michael and St. James | |
| Ballinrobe Church | County Mayo | 1926 | St. Fursey and St. Fechin | |
| St. Colman and St. Brendan | ||||
| St. Gormgall and St. Kieran | ||||
| St. Enda and St. Jarleth | ||||
| Assumption and Coronation of Blessed Virgin Mary | ||||
| Presentation in the Temple and Immaculate Conception | ||||
| Ecce Homo and Magdalen in the Garden | ||||
| Baptism of Christ and Ascension | ||||
| St. Patrick, St. Brigid and St. Colmcille | ||||
| St Mary's Church, Nantwich | Cheshire, England | 1920 | Madonna and Child | Representing motherhood and sacrifice[6] |
| St. Cecelia with birds and flowers | Representing music | |||
| Richard Coeur de Lion | ||||
| St. Adrian | ||||
| St. Clare | ||||
| St. Francis of Assisi | ||||
| Mary Magdalen | ||||
| St. Brigid | ||||
| St. Nicholas | ||||
| St. Peter's Church | Phibsborough, Dublin | 1919 | Apparition of the Sacred Heart | South Aisle |
| Mary Magdalen | In the Mortuary Chapel | |||
| St. John | ||||
| Castleknock Church | Dublin | 1928 | St. Luke | |
| St. George | ||||
| St. Hubert | ||||
| Church of the Assumption | Bride Street, Wexford | 1919 | Our Lady and Child | |
| Adored by Saints Adrian and Aiden | Also described as Breen[7] | |||
| Honan Chapel[8] | University College, Cork | 1915–17 | St. Brigid | Described by Brian Fallon as 'Awesome, hieratic, Neo-Byzantine quality." |
| St. Patrick | ||||
| St. Colmcille | ||||
| St. Gobnait | ||||
| St. Ita | ||||
| St. Declan | ||||
| St. Finnbarr | ||||
| St. Albert | ||||
| Our Lady Queen of heaven | ||||
| St. Joseph | ||||
| St Mel's Cathedral | Longford | Consecration of St. Mel as Bishop of Longford | ||
| St. Joseph's Church | Terenure, Dublin | 1922–23 | The Annunciation | 1922 |
| Our Lady Queen of Heaven | 1923. Described as 'Adoration of the Cross'[9] | |||
| Tullamore Church | County Offaly | 1927–28 | St. Peter and St. Paul | Windows originally designed for Rathfarnham Castle[10] |
| St. Brendan | ||||
| St. Patrick and St. Benignus | ||||
| St. Ignatius | ||||
| Sacred Heart | ||||
| St. Joseph and Our Lady | ||||
| Christ's Wounds | ||||
| Balbriggan Church | County Dublin | 1923 | The Visitation | |
| St. Macaulind's Church | Lusk, County Dublin | 1924 | St. Macaulind holding a replica of the new church. | The artists self-portrait among the afflicted |
| Symbolic windows | ||||
| Chapel of the Novitiate of the Oblate Fathers of St. Mary Immaculate[11] | Belcamp College, Balgriffin, County Dublin | 1925 | St. Brendan at the helm of his boat | |
| St. Malachy. | Also known as St. Maol M'Aodhog | |||
| St. Kevin in his cave at Glendalough | ||||
| St. Laurence O'Toole in the ancient city of Dublin | Also known as Lorcon | |||
| St. Colmcille | ||||
| St. Duileach | ||||
| St. Damhnait | ||||
| St. Brigid | ||||
| St. Eithne and St. Fedhlim | ||||
| St. Gobnait | ||||
| St. Patrick | ||||
| St. Oliver Plunkett | ||||
| Newport Church | County Mayo | 1927 | Last Judgement | |
| Tullycross Church | Renvyle, County Galway | 1927 | St. Barbara | |
| St. Bernard | ||||
| Apparition of the Sacred Heart | ||||
| All Saints Church | Penarth, Cardiff, Wales | St. Michael | No longer in situ | |
| St. Gabriel | ||||
| Laragh Church | County Wicklow | 1928–29 | 10 clerestory windows | |
| Killaloe Church | County Clare | 1927 | The Presentation of Our Lord. | |
| Annunciation and Flight into Egypt | ||||
| Cathedral Church of St. Brigid | Kildare | St. Hubert | ||
| Carnalway Church | Kilcullen, County Kildare | 1922 | St. Hubert | |
| Parish Church | Gorey, County Wexford | 1922–23 | St. Stephen | |
| St. Martin of Tours | ||||
| Sandford Road Church | Ranelagh, Dublin | St. Peter and St. Paul | ||
| Bewleys Café | 78 Grafton Street, Dublin | 1928 | Decorative windows | |
| Donabate Church | County Dublin | 1926 | Suffer little Children to come unto me | |
| Duhill Church | Duhill, Cahir, County Tipperary | 1925 | Beheading of St. John the Baptist | |
| Vision of Bernadette of Lourdes | ||||
| Church of Sacred Heart | Donnybrook, Dublin | 1924 | St. Rita and St. Bernard | |
| Wolfsonian Museum | Miami, Florida, USA | 1930 | Geneva Window | Commissioned for the International Labour Building, League of Nations, Geneva |
| The Hugh Lane Gallery | Dublin | 1923 | Eve of St. Agnes | Illustration of John Keats' poem.
a) Numb were the Beardsman's fingers. |
| MIC, St. Patrick's Campus, Thurles | Thurles, Tipperary, Ireland | 1929 | St. Thomas | Commissioned by Very Revd. N Cooke, President of the college at the time, with donations from past presidents. Total cost was IR£436.10 |
| St Columkille | ||||
| St Columbanus |
References
- Andrews, Helen; White, Lawrence William (2009). "Clarke, Harry (Henry Patrick)". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Costigan, Lucy; Cullen, Michael (2010). Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke. Dublin: The History Press Ireland. ISBN 9781845889715.
- Exhibition at Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, 1990.
- Harry Clarke, Monograph and catalogue, 12 November to 8 December 1979, The Douglas Hyde Gallery.
- Shell Guide To Ireland, p.94.
- Nicola Gordon Bowe. 1994. The Life and Work of Harry Clarke (Irish Academic Press)
- Shell Guide to Ireland, p.305.
- Douglas Hyde Gallery Exhibition, 1979.
- Shell Guide to Ireland, p.166
- Shell Guide to Ireland, p.297
- Shell Guide to Ireland.
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