Major Accomplishments & Awards
The J & R Lamb Studios has been honored to work on major art projects over the years and honored to receive many awards. Our work can be found in all 50 states, 13 countries, and in such prestigious buildings as Cornell University, Tuskegee University, Columbia University, Wells College, Wellesley College, Brooklyn Museum, Newark Museum, Morse Museum, and Marble Collegiate Church. We won medals at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and the Paris International Exposition in 1900.
Below are just some examples of our achievements and awards:
Chosen by the U.S. government as one of four studios to represent American achievements in stained glass at the Paris International Exposition of 1900. Lamb Studios won 2 gold medals for execution and design for our window, Religion Enthroned. This window is now on permanent display at the Brooklyn Museum.
The co-founder of Stanford University, Senator Leland Stanford, hired Lamb Studios to create 51 stained glass windows for the memorial church on the college campus that bears his name. Lamb Studios created 19 large aisle and apse windows depicting the life of Christ and 32 smaller windows that are found in the balconies and clerestory. It was Senator Leland Stanford’s wife, Jane, who gathered ideas and directed Frederick Stymetz Lamb on which images to create. Frederick Stymetz Lamb magnificently translated those images into stained glass windows.
Frances Ann Lutcher commissioned this 36 foot diameter opalescent dome, that represents facets of the church in Christianity, after seeing an exhibit by Lamb Studios at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. Lutcher purchased 3 stained glass windows on display at the exhibit for her new church and placed them in storage while the church was built.
The chapel interior was designed by Charles Lamb of Lamb Studios in 1909. When it was completed in 1910 the chapel was considered by many as the most perfect example of Byzantine mosaic art in the United States. To accomplish this major project Lamb traveled to Rome to enlist the services of six highly accomplished mosaic artists who had just recently completed a project in the Vatican. The artists created more than 10 million mosaic pieces, called tessellae, from marble, colored stone, and glass fused with gold and silver. The artists then traveled to Minneapolis to assemble the work inside the chapel. Upon its completion in 1910, the Lakewood Memorial chapel was the only building in the country with an authentic mosaic interior.
The chapel dome is 65 feet high and ringed with stained-glass windows that serve as a sundial telling the time of day and season. Four large mosaic figures representing Love, Hope, Faith, and Memory are situated on the side walls below the dome. The figures were based on paintings by Charles Lamb’s wife, Ella Condie Lamb.
Between 1907 and 1909 Lamb Studios created and installed 19 stained glass windows within the Sanctuary at the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims. The windows take as their theme the influence of Puritanism (the parent of Congregationalism) on the growth of Liberty. Interesting subjects like Abe Lincoln, William Penn, and John Milton can be found in the windows.
