Lot 144
GORDON MACWHIRTER WEBSTER (1908-1987)
PAIR OF STAINED, PAINTED AND LEADED GLASS PANELS, CIRCA 1950
Auction: 15 June 2011 at 12:00 BST
Description
each with lancet arch outline, bearing inscriptions 'Bring Me Unto Thy Holy Hill', and 'Behold I Am Alive For Evermore' (2)
Dimensions
Each panel 204cm high, 74cm wide
Footnote
Provenance; Broomhill Trinity Church, Glasgow
Literature; Donnelly, Michael, 'Scotland's Stained Glass', pub. The Stationery Office, 1997, page 96.
Note; Gordon McWhirter Webster’s father Alfred A. Webster, was a Stained Glass, artist between 1884 and 1915. On his death his widow continued to operate her dead husband's firm. In 1929 it finally passed under the direct management of Alf’s son Gordon who had been an infant at the time of his father's death. Mrs Webster had managed to keep the studio solvent by placing the practical management of the glass shop in the hands of the firm's former apprentice and assistant, Douglas Hamilton. Hamilton trained Gordon, but like him he was for a number of years strongly influenced by his late father’s work. His fine early windows might very well be mistaken for that of his father's. However, by the mid-1930s he had discovered his own voice and some of his work from this period is very fine indeed.