page_title: Robert Sowers
section_title: Paintings
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Sowers / Gallery / Paintings
caption_attribution_description: English: Red Fire Plug painting.
context_page_description: Robert Sowers was an American painter, photographer, stained glass artist, and seminal figure in the re-emergence of stained glass as an architectural art in the United States. His architectural glass commissions cover some 20 years from St George's Episcopal Church, Durham, New Hampshire to Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, New York and the blue cross window for Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. In November 1953 he participated in the New Talent Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He designed the vast American Airlines terminal glass facade at John F. Kennedy International Airport in 1958–59. It was demolished in 2008 to allow for an reorganization and expansion of their terminal.
  In addition to his glass commissions he wrote multiple magazine articles and published four books on stained glass, art, and architecture. He was an exceptional photographer documenting his own as well as other artist's glass work and spent many hours walking the streets and parks of Manhattan and Brooklyn with camera in hand. A posthumous volume of his B/W photographs was published in 1990.
caption: "Red Fire Plug". 1984.
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