Next week, those pieces that the artists started years ago will be unveiled in the debut exhibition - “Judson Studios: Stained Glass From Gothic to Street Style” - at Forest Lawn, a museum that doubles as a memorial cemetery and park, and is also known as a Los Angeles landmark. This pause presented something unexpected which helped the show come to fruition: time to perfect the multiyear, labor-intensive undertakings, which take eight to 10 hours to design and paint per square foot.

(The staff was cut to 18 employees from 30.) “World War I, the 1918 pandemic, World War II, we were open for all of that,” said Judson, who closed for three months last year because of Covid-19. The studio has over the last four years teamed up with a cadre of local emerging and established artists who designed murals, streetscapes, even sculpture, which Judson fabricated for a debut show that was scuttled because of the pandemic. “Instead, he lived another 35 years, started U.S.C.’s College of Fine Arts in this building, and helped launch the Arts and Crafts movement,” his great-great-grandchild David Judson said recently at the stained glass studio the elder Judson founded in 1897.įrom the studio in Highland Park, with its views of the San Gabriel Mountains and Arroyo Seco, its original crown moldings, terra cotta portico, light fixtures and over 500 types of colored glass on display - a palette of sorts for the studio’s artisans to choose from - one can nearly picture Los Angeles as the sleepy cow town it once was. When his wife died suddenly and his own health soured, doctors advised him to take the “California cure” and spend his last days in the Golden State’s hot, dry air. Grant in the Civil War, Beaux-Arts immersion at Paris’s Académie Julian. At 51, William Lees Judson could look back on a life full of adventure: trans-Atlantic crossings, farming Ontario’s plains, fighting under Ulysses S. LOS ANGELES - In 1893, an itinerant plein-air English painter came to the West Coast to die.

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