Tuesday, February 22–Saturday, April 16, 2022

Admission included with Easter Art at Glencairn, Craftsmanship at Glencairn: Five Artists, and Highlights tours, or by appointment.

Three Easter dioramas were made in the 1920s for the Pitcairn family by Winfred S. Hyatt, the principal stained-glass artist and designer for Bryn Athyn Cathedral and Glencairn. The following three events from the Easter story are illustrated in these scenes: The Last Supper, the visit of the two Marys to the tomb on Easter Sunday, and the appearance of the resurrected Christ to seven of His disciples on the Sea of Galilee. Hyatt modeled the figures, which were then cast in plaster, painted, and clothed.

These scenes were originally made for Cairnwood, Raymond Pitcairn’s childhood home, where his family lived until Glencairn was completed in 1939. They continued to be displayed annually at Glencairn after they moved, and soon became part of an Easter tradition enjoyed by the Pitcairn grandchildren. Some of the grandchildren fondly remember coming to Glencairn to see the scenes with their parents each year and picking out a flower to take to Bryn Athyn Cathedral on Easter Sunday (grown in the Pitcairns’ plant nursery).