The Blacker House
A Total Work of Art:
Greene & Greene
Design for leaded-glass window, 1913
Graphite, brown ink, and wash on tracing paper
Earle C. Anthony house, Los Angeles, 1909–10
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
This design for a window in the home of Packard automobile franchise owner Earle C. Anthony is reminiscent of an earlier design for the bathroom window for the Robert R. Blacker house in 1907–08. The leading is used as a design element, conveying tendrils entwined around a trellis form and reaching beyond the boundaries of the panel. Drawing and window demonstrate that although the Greenes appeared to have an inexhaustible supply of new designs for each commission, they were occasionally willing to adapt a motif or design that they felt had been successful.
