Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College
Essays by Virginia Chieffo Raguin
Photographs by Gary Wayne Gilbert
“Boston College possesses a series of marvelous glazing installations, the work of four masterful and stylistically distinct stained-glass artists: Earl Edward Sanborn, Richard King, Thomas Murphy, and Alexander Locke. Each set of windows is beautiful in its own right, and together they comprise an aesthetic treasure.” With these words, art historian Virginia Raguin opens her reflections on the stained-glass riches contained in three of the original Boston College campus buildings, designed by the esteemed Boston architectural firm Maginnis and Walsh in Collegiate Gothic style and constructed between 1913 and 1928.
Illuminating essays by Raguin, a leading authority on the history of stained glass, accompany more than 120 pages of full-color reproductions of the windows, as captured by award-winning photographer Gary Wayne Gilbert.
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