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Stained Glass That Breaks All the Rules
Los Angeles’s oldest stained glass studio, Judson, is collaborating with emerging and established artists to modernize a medieval craft.
“Kobe, 2017,” a collaboration of Tim Carey’s design and fabrication at Judson, Los Angeles’s oldest stained glass studio. It will be on view at Forest Lawn starting next week.Credit.Tim Carey and Judson Studios
By Adam Popescu
LOS ANGELES In 1893, an itinerant plein-air
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painter came to the West Coast to die. 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. Grant in the Civil War, Beaux-Arts immersion at Paris’s Académie Julian. 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.
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Dr. James L. Maxwell
2021 marks the centenary of the death of Dr. James L. Maxwell. The stamp depicts a portrait of Dr. Maxwell with a glimpse of the Thài-Pêng-Kéng Maxwell Memorial Church in the background. Dr. James L. Maxwell was born in Scotland in 1836 and graduated from Edinburgh University Medical School. On June 16, 1865 he began his work as a medical missionary at Khòan-sai Street, Tainan. The Khòan-sai Street Clinic was the first Western-style clinic in Taiwan. Dr. Maxwell combined medical work with his preaching. He trained staff and assisted innumerable patients, earning him the title Father of Taiwan’s Medical Missionaries.