G. Owen Bonawit

G. Owen Bonawit

G. Owen Bonawit (1891–1971) is an artist whose studio created thousands of pieces of stained glass iat Yale, Duke, and Northwestern universities, Connecticut College, and in residential locations. His works are very prolific at Yale University. There are, by one count, 887 pieces in its Sterling Memorial Library. Bonawit's career was strongly associated with the architect James Gamble Rogers and peaked around 1930. His last major commission was in 1940.

Works

*Duke University Chapel
*Deering Library (Northwestern University)
*Connecticut College [http://www.conncoll.edu/orsl/harkness-chapel.html chapel] , New London

Yale University

*Branford College
*Saybrook College
*Sterling Memorial Library
*Berkeley College

Gallery

[http://squirl.info/asset/show/451?c=Book&cid=0&i=20 G.Owen Bonawit's Bookplate]

Recommended Reading

*"Bonawit, Stained Glass, and Yale" by G. Walker


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