G. Owen Bonawit
American artist
About G. Owen Bonawit
Lived 1891 – 1971 (aged 79–80). G. Owen Bonawit was an American glass artist.
G. Owen Bonawit (1891–1971) was an artist whose studio created thousands of pieces of stained glass for Yale, Duke, Northwestern, and Southeast Missouri State universities; Connecticut College; Bethesda By The Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida and at private homes. There are, by one count, 887 pieces in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library. Bonawit worked often and closely with the architect James Gamble Rogers. His career peaked around 1930; his last major commission was in 1940.
Works Duke University Chapel Deering Library (Northwestern University) Connecticut College, New London Kent Library (Southeast Missouri State University)
Yale University Branford College Saybrook College Sterling Memorial Library Berkeley College Hall of Graduate Studies
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Who was G. Owen Bonawit?
American artist
When was G. Owen Bonawit born?
G. Owen Bonawit was born in 1891 in Brooklyn.
When did G. Owen Bonawit die?
G. Owen Bonawit died in 1971.
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G. Owen Bonawit was a glass artist.
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G. Owen Bonawit was American.
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