Sacred Fish

The IXOYC Fish

Christians began using the fish as a religious symbol as early as the 1st  century. The acronym comes from the Greek and is also the word for fish.

Douglas Phillips made this piece in 1957 as an example of his fluid style and technique. Some of the glass pieces are stained, but also etched and painted. He's also able to show off his somewhat abstract and dynamic line that he famously uses in most of his window designs and greatly influenced the stained glass industry.

This window is going to be restored for the retrospective. The light box needs to be rebuilt and some of the lead replaced.