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Nuttgens (Joseph Edward, 1892-1982). East Window, Alert Bay, B[ritish] C[olumbia], 1930, watercolour on paper laid on card, design for an arched tracery three-light stained glass window, depicting Christ in the centre captioned 'Thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory', flanked by St Raphael and St Gabriel on the left and St Uriel and St Michael on the right, topped by 3 decorative lozenges, signed and dated lower right and titled below image, slightly rubbed, image size 34.5 x 20.5cm (13 1/2 x 8ins), sheet size 37 x 21.1cm (14 1/2 x 8 1/4ins), mount with shaped aperture, overall size of mount 46.2 x 31.1cm Joseph Edward Nuttgens was born in Aachen, Germany, to a German father and English mother, and he moved with his family to London at the age of three. After leaving school he studied at Harrow Technical College and School of Art, subsequently spending five years working as an assistant in Arthur Orr's stained glass workshop. In 1911 he began studying at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Christopher Whall, where he was influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, and specifically by the philosophy and art of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones Nuttgens went on to produce stained glass designs for famous firms such as James Powell and Sons, as well as working for artists such as Paul Woodroffe in Chipping Campden. He later set up his own studio at Piggott's Hill near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, where he was influenced by his neighbour Eric Gill contributing an East Window to the only church designed by Gill, the church of St Peter, Gorleston, in Norfolk. Nuttgens was associated with the Art Workers Guild and the Warham Guild, and was a Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. In turn he influenced other stained glass makers, including John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens, whose collaboration began in Nuttgens's studio, and a number of his offspring followed him into the arts or decorative arts. His son, Joseph Ambrose Nuttgens, completed a window depicting wild flowers commissioned by Linda McCartney one of the last designs his father worked on before his death in 1982. Nuttgens was prolific, producing around 300 stained glass windows, as well as executing designs and carrying out glasswork for other workshops and artists. The majority of his output is found in Britain, but his work can be found in churches as far flung as Hong Kong and Canada. The window executed from the design offered here can still be seen in Christ Church Anglican Church, in the remote rural community of Alert Bay on Cormorant Island, northeast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.