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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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Artist

Wright, Robert Toland
Cleveland, Ohio

Date of Birth: 11/11/1887

Date of Death: 11/18/1934

Biography: Graduate of Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art.  At some point (1916?) he worked for the Whipple Art Glass Company in Cleveland; lived in Cleveland per the 1920 census; in 1928 Cleveland City Directory listed a designer of stained glass.  Has some windows in greater Pittsburgh area.  Wright died relatively young and is buried in Cleveland’s well known Lakeview Cemetery; Cleveland Museum of Art has several stained glass objects donated by Mrs. R. Toland Wright.
Michigan windows:  Bloomfield Hills, Christ Church Cranbrook, 1927 (life of St. Paul)
Brochure from a church near Cleveland with Wright windows:  https://gracewadsworth.com/

Life of St. Paul, Part 1
Window Name: Life of St. Paul, Part 1
Building Name and City: Christ Church Cranbrook
Life of St. Paul, Part 2
Window Name: Life of St. Paul, Part 2
Building Name and City: Christ Church Cranbrook
Life of St. Paul, Part 3
Window Name: Life of St. Paul, Part 3
Building Name and City: Christ Church Cranbrook