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Although there is no evidence that Wright, or the Martin family, used the popular term to describe the design, it aptly describes the geometric pattern of diagonal \"branches\" terminating in colored \"leaves,\" radiating out from a central trunk-like form that is grounded in a square base, or \"pot,\" at the bottom. Over seven hundred pieces of mostly clear glass were used in the production of each of the Martin House’s more than sixty \"Tree of Life\" windows, which formed a key part of the complex’s sixteen distinct patterns of art glass and collectively helped to comprise one of Wright’s most sophisticated and elaborate architectural ensembles. ","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"The “Tree of Life” windows designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the reception room and second-floor bedrooms of the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York, feature one of the best-known motifs in all his work. Although there is no evidence that Wright, or the Martin family, referred to the design as a “tree of life,” the term aptly describes the geo- metric pattern of diagonal “branches” terminating in colored “leaves,” radiating out from a central trunk-like form grounded in a square base, or “pot,” at the bottom. Over seven hundred pieces of mostly clear glass were used in the production of each of the Martin House’s more than sixty “Tree of Life” windows, which constituted one of sixteen distinct patterns of art glass that collectively contributed to one of Wright’s most sophisticated and elaborate architectural ensembles.\n","remarks":"AMER-STR_23-27_CLA Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Produced as an architectural element of the Darwin D. Martin complex, Buffalo (NY), 1904. Anonymous collector, possibly Mrs. Philip K. Wrigley [1]; [Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago (IL), by May 19, 1981]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, May 19, 1981.\n\n[1] The invoice from Frumkin & Struve Gallery mentions that they cannot disclose the collector’s identity, but the Art Institute of Chicago bought a window from the Darwin D. Martin complex from the same source in 1972. The website of the Art Institute records that their window was a gift of the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. Philip K. Wrigley, suggesting that she is, in all likelihood, the anonymous collector who presente","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1904,"sortnumber":"1981 10y","published_date":"2026-03-05 09:06:55.158438","objectid":32542,"dimensions":"114.6 × 75.6 cm (45 1/8 × 29 3/4 in.)","on_view":true}