Religion and Righteousness

1991 – Washington National Cathedral – Nave Clerestory 

In this window we see the familiar story of the Good Samaritan and Rowan uses three of the lancets to tell that story and one lancet to tell a different story.  It is also interesting in how Rowan plays with perspective here. In the center-left lancet a man lies beaten and robbed, the perpetrators running away in the distance at the top of the lancet.  In the center-right lancet the Good Samaritan is standing looking over the beaten man. Though both figures are about the same size, and one is lying and the other is standing, the composition somehow works.  Also, near the top of the center-right lancet the same two men are making their way off to the city with the beaten man on top of a donkey and Rowan uses the green background as a kind of a path for the eye to follow and connect the different time in the stories. 

Peter Mollica fabricated this window and once again Rowan came to California to paint it.    Peter said he was amazed at how much trust Rowan put in him.  He very much enjoyed working with Rowan and said it brought him back to the time when he was an apprentice.  “We had fun,” he said.

Year Completed

1991

Artists

Rowan LeCompte

Fabricator

Peter Mollica

Location In Building

North Clerestory Bay 7