Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Tribe of Ruben [Small Study for Synagogue Windows]
Image View:
Overall view, back-lit, of test detail of the final window
Creator:
Marc Chagall (Belorussian artist, 1887-1985)
Location:
exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Location Note:
1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest; Chagall: Colour and Music (Exhibition, January 28 to June 11, 2017)
GPS:
45.4987-73.5801
Date:
1960 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Israeli
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
stained glass (visual work)
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
colored glass; lead caming; vitreous paint
Technique:
painting and painting techniques; stained glass
Subjects:
abstraction; allegory; contemporary (1960 to present); cycles or series; Old Testament and Apocrypha; Bible; Judaism; folkloric; dreamlike; Twelve Tribes of Israel; fish; preparatory study
Description:
During his last 30 years Chagall mastered stained glass, for which he adapted ancient techniques of hand-painting on the glass before firing, and with which he depicted both religious and secular subjects. He provided windows for the synagogue of the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical Centre, Jerusalem (1960-1962). The theme is the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The intensities of color that he achieved with the technical support of the stained-glass artist Charles Marq enriched his work in other media. This preparatory (test) study in glass is in a private collection. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-SG-TTR-A 01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Tribe of Ruben [Small Study for Synagogue Windows]