By the early 1900s, Tiffany Studios had become a household name in American art thanks to its cutting-edge techniques and intricate designs. Tiffany’s chemists and craftspeople incorporated color directly in their glass, using experimental formulas to create kaleidoscopic hues and layering multiple panes to produce dazzling visual effects.

Agnes F. Northrop, one of Tiffany’s leading designers, created this mountain view using rippled, marbled, and mottled glass to render its cascading waterfall, moss-covered rocks, and autumn leaves. In its original architectural setting, the window would come alive at different times of day—beaming with a warm sunrise or shimmering in cool twilight.

Commissioned by the Woodmen of the World, one of the first life insurance programs in the US, the window was a memorial to the group’s founder Joseph Cullen Root. First installed at the Woodmen’s Nebraska headquarters, it was relocated to the chapel of the organization’s newly built hospital in San Antonio, Texas, in 1931. This site later became home to Sunset Ridge Church and Collective, which collaborated closely with Crystal Bridges on the window’s relocation and conservation.