ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.- The Allentown Art Museum presents "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright", on view through April 28, 2002. This exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on the leaded glass designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) between 1885 and 1923, works that proved instrumental in moving American glass design from the Victorian into the modern age. Wright's towering achievements in architecture and furniture have overshadowed the fact that he was one of the most prolific American glass artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To trace the genesis and evolution of his window designs over four decades, curator Julie L. Sloan has selected nearly fifty windows, complemented by reproductions of twenty of Wright's preparatory drawings. Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright is organized by Exhibitions International, New York, in cooperation with The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona. The exhibition has three sections: A Vocabulary of Form, 1885-1900 features Wright’s earliest glass in which he experimented with a variety of stylized forms. A Language of Pattern, 1900-1910 focuses on some of Wright’s most fruitful years when, beginning with the Bradley house, he invented a distinctive rectilinear vocabulary. It was during this period that Wright designed some of his most innovative leaded glass for the Dana house, the Martin House, and the Robie house. The final section of the exhibition, A New Poetics, 1911-1923, demonstrates a dramatic change in Wright’s window designs reflecting his exposure to radical art movements in Europe. Dynamic windows designed in this period include those for the Avery Coonley Playhouse, the Imperial Hotel, and Hollyhock House.