Gordon Henderson collection of American stained glass design
Dates
- c. 1890-1930
Scope and Contents
Approximately 400 ecclesiastical, domestic, and commercial stained glass window design drawings chiefly by the Henderson Studio (of Towaco, Montville Township, Morris County, N.J.) or by the Sharpe Brothers Studio (of Newark, Essex County, N.J.), as indicated by stamps, labels or markings on the verso of the mounts (although many are unsigned or unmarked). The drawings, which range in size from approximately 8 ½ x 11 inches (or smaller) to up to 22 x 28 inches, are accompanied by printed and reproduced materials that may have been consulted in conjunction with the creation of stained glass designs.
Extent
6 boxes (oversized, flat boxes)
Physical Description
Many mounts worn at edges.
Provenance
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Full collection donated to museum in late 1989 by Gordon Henderson.
Language of Materials
English
Biographical / Historical
The donor Gordon Henderson, who resided in Towaco, NJ, died in October 2010. His grandfather William Henderson, a Scottish immigrant, established his stained glass studio first in Chicago in 1872, then moved his stained glass business to New York City in 1890. His son Ernest Henderson moved the studio business in 1915 to New Jersey, where his son Gordon apprenticed in the 1930s. When Henderson Brothers closed in 1937, Gordon Henderson established a freelance business specializing in stained glass; in the 1940s, he salvaged what he could of the designs from his family’s former studio.
- Author
- Stephen Bacchetta
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Sponsor
- Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the NJ Department of State.
Part of the New Brunswick Special Collections Repository