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Exhibition of Chagall’s Stained Glass Synagogue Windows Opened in N.Y.

November 21, 1961
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An exhibition of 12 stained glass windows designed and executed by Marc Chagall for the synagogue at the new Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, near Jerusalem, opened here yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art. Considered by many critics as the crowning achievement in the career of the French-Jewish artist, the windows depict the 12 tribes of ancient Israel.

The windows, which were exhibited last summer in the Louvre in Paris, were installed here in specially designed arches to simulate their ultimate setting in Israel, and are illuminated from behind by means of banks of fluorescent tubes. The windows, each of which measures eleven by eight feet, will be placed permanently on the cupola crowning the synagogue at the Medical Center.

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