An exhibition consisting of cartoons in black and white, rough designs, and finished sketches of stained glass windows with a few small glass medallions, by H. Wright Goodhue, youthful artist who contributed to restoring the art of stained glass to a high position in America, will be shown at Fogg Museum beginning next Wednesday and continuing through the month.

Goodhue studied at Harvard several years before his death in 1931 but never took a degree. When he was 16 years of age, Ralph Adams Cram, famous Boston architect, took an interest in his work. While he was working in a draughtsman's office, he did his first work in stained glass when he designed a set of 36 medallions in glass for Teacher's College of Columbia University. Soon after he was allowed to submit a design for the 13-foot rose window in the Sacred Heart Dominican Church in Jersey City, N. J., and won the competition. At the age of 19 he was associated with Cram and Ferguson and in their employ executed almost all the windows in the chapel at Mercersburg School. A whole set of windows for a church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, also came from Goodhue's hand at about this time. In 1929 the artist set up his own shop in Congress Street where he designed six windows for the Riverside Cathedral in New York City. The windows were supposed to copy the spirit of the famous delicately traced windows in the Cathedral of Chartres. These famous Grisaille windows in the best lighted church in the world were made in the XIII century and contain over 5000 figures. Goodhue succeeded admirably in this work, although the problem of reducing the scale to fit the more modest proportions of the modern church was difficult. When the windows were set in June, 1929 they evoked praise from all authorities.

Cram has said of him: "I can honestly say that as an abstract type of genius Wright Goodhue was the most brilliant man I have ever known. His ability in the line of stained glass was remarkable. I think Goodhue ranked next to Aubrey Beardsley in keenness and distinction. Being a great genius he was naturally erratic in certain directions with a profound conviction that he must work along the lines that in his opinion were right. He seemed to me to be a reincarnation in modern times of some spirit out of the Middle Ages. His difficulty was that he could not fight against an unsympathetic environment. He hated modernism and resented most bitterly surrendering his personality and convictions to those who knew less than he did. He was a leader in restoring stained glass to its position as one of the great arts in America."

Goodhue's promising career was cut short by death in August, 1931. Some of his examples of art may be seen in the Mt. Auburn Crematory Chapel in Cambridge, and the Second Universalist Church, Boylston and Ipswich Streets, Boston.