The Nativity, center panel, c. 1917

Alexander S. Locke, Locke Decorating Company, Brooklyn, New York

Stained glass

St. Mary’s Chapel, Boston College

This is the center panel of a triptych that includes windows with images of the Three Kings on the left and the Shepherds on the right. A shepherd’s staff and a sleeping lamb are shown at Mary’s feet. Alexander Locke’s (1860–1921) early work was in the opalescent mode of pictorial windows, and later he favored the Gothic Revival style that reduced the recession into space through densely patterned backgrounds, and emphasized three-dimensional draftsmanship. Locke’s windows and wall decorations are also in the Chapel of Queen of All Saints, in Brooklyn; The Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, on Park Avenue at 84th Street, in New York; and St. Catherine of Genoa’s, in Somerville, Massachusetts.