Meredith Brown Skelton Memorial stained glass window
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Title
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Meredith Brown Skelton Memorial stained glass window
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Description
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The Meredith Brown Skelton Memorial Stained glass window found in the alcove of the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brown in memory of their daughter, the window was designed to be a decorative landscape symbolic of life in and beyond the University.
A quiet garden surrounded by a wall represents the University.
Through the garden runs a river depicting life, beside which grows a sapling ash representing youth.
The fountain (Knowledge) waters the garden and overflows in the river.
Around the fountain are young children (Humanity) playing and drinking the water.
A path is seen in the middle distance which leads through an open gateway out into the distant landscape (Life beyond the University) through the dark woods (Uncertainty) to the city (Industry) and the peaks of a mountain range (Achievement).
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Date
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1930
