hideback: Harry Clarke (Irish, 1889-1931) While imprisoned for homosexuality in 1897, Oscar Wil
hideback: Harry Clarke (Irish, 1889-1931) While imprisoned for homosexuality in 1897, Oscar Wilde wrote a tragic letter to his former companion, Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1913, possibly inspired by Oscar Wilde’s letter below, Harry Clarke made the illustration above. Harry Clarke was an illustrator and a stained glass artist. He created the stained glass window shown here for a church in Oughterard, Galway, Ireland. ————————– Oscar Wilde wrote: Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also. - De Profundis, 1897 More Harry Clarke -- source link