Detail from the Kitching War Memorial Window at Hull Minster
Designed and executed by James Ballantine FSA of Edinburgh.
The window expresses gratitude for Victory in the First World War.
Notice the introduction of WWI new inventions: the tank, submarine, and biplane into the design at the bottom.
Pauline Boty, 1938-66
Self-portrait
Artist Pauline Boty was a central figure in the growing British Pop Art movement. This self-portrait was made while she was still a student at the Royal College of Art. It is the only stained glass object in the Collection.
Boty later focussed on painting, and her representations of women, including Marilyn Monroe, were radical in portraying female pleasure and desire.
Tragically, her brilliant career was to be very short. Boty died of cancer aged only 28 and her work was largely forgotten until interest revived from the 1990s.
Stained glass, about 1958
National Portrait Gallery, London
The spectacular post WWII St George’s window from Tony Hollaway in Manchester cathedral
A stained glass window designed by Morris and Co in St Philip's Church, Alderley Edge.
St Peter was designed by Edward Burne Jones and St Andrew (right) by Ford Madox Brown
