Clerestory Window from the Avery Coonley Playhouse
Design Date c. 1912
Designer Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959, American)
Media opak and clear glass with zinc caming, wood frame is not original
Dimensions 17 3/4 x 33 1/2 inches
This window was designed for the Avery Coonley Playhouse, a secondary building used as a kindergarten and performance space on the property of the Wright-designed Coonley House in the Chicago suburb of Riverside. Wright created a clerestory, a continuous band of more than thirty windows just under the roofline, to fill the room with light. This is the only building in Wright’s career where no two windows are the same and where he used bright primary colors.
Not currently on view
Markings unmarked
Credit Line Collection Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
Accession Number 2020.029.001
