Lamp from the Church of All Souls, Evanston, Illinois

Marion Mahony GriffinWW-1903-139303

1903·Stained glass·24 × 60 × 47 cm (9 1/2 × 23 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)

<p>All Souls Unitarian Church is one of the few projects that can be attributed solely to Marion Mahony Griffin, an architect who spent her career working with Frank Lloyd Wright and her husband, Walter Burley Griffin. The congregation of this church, located in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, embraced poetry and theater as part of spiritual life. Mahony Griffin reflected these characteristics in an intimate and atmospheric design that featured an abundance of stained glass in its skylights, windows, and light fixtures. Although small in scale, the church prefigured her later work with community theaters, specifically in the bold, prismatic forms that would come to define the Griffins’ practice.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1903
Medium: Stained glass
Dimensions: 24 × 60 × 47 cm (9 1/2 × 23 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Marion Mahony Griffin

Artist

Marion Mahony Griffin

Photography

Marion Mahony Griffin was an American architect and architectural delineator who pioneered the integration of landscape design with residential planning in early twentieth-century practice. Working alongside her husband Walter Burley Griffin, she developed a distinctive approach to organic architecture that emphasized the relationship between building and site through careful topographical study and hand-rendered presentation drawings. Her watercolor renderings and landscape plans for the Griffins' projects, including their design for Canberra, Australia, established a visual language that prioritized spatial continuity and ecological sensitivity.

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