Lot 90: Christopher Campbell (1908-1973) STAINED GLASS

Christopher Campbell (1908-1973) STAINED GLASS WINDOW DESIGNS (SET OF THREE) charcoal, oil pastel and pencil each signed, 'CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL' OR 'CAMPBELL', DUBLIN 147 by 38cm., 58 by 15in. Stained glass designs depict, St. Brigid, The Head of the Nuns of Erin, St. Oliver Plunkett, and St. Agnes. St. Oliver was declared a Saint by Pope Paul VI in 1973. St. Peter's church in Drogheda houses the preserved head of St. Oliver which forms the centrepiece of the church's shrine.Campbell spent a short period of time working in the Harry Clarke Stained Glass Studios; however this was a short-lived and unhappy employment. In spite of this, Campbell executed a number of innovative and celebrated religious and secular designs for stained glass windows for churches and commissions throughout Ireland. Many such stained glass designs formed part of the artist's posthumous exhibition held in the Neptune Gallery, Dublin in 1976. Campbell first exhibited with the RHA in 1929 and continued to do so regularly until 1945.