Dan Hillen The Lesser Lights Stained Glass Window

Updated September 5, 2026

Title is The Lesser Lights. 94 1/2" by 70 1/2" as displayed. Some panels exhibit cracking. Provenance: Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, Missoula, Montana. Daniel Peter Hillen was an accomplished stained glass artist, whose art can be found throughout the world. He was a professor of fine arts at Carroll College in Helena, Montana for 28 years and was a Roman Catholic priest. His work covers all techniques of stained glass (etching, sandblasting, slumping, glass sculpture, painting on glass, mosaics, glass blowing, leaded, copper foil, repair and restoration) in styles from traditional to contemporary, from realistic, to abstract, to nonobjective art. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 1975 from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and his Masters of Fine Arts in 1979 from the University of Montana in Missoula Montana. He also studied at the Pilchuk School of Glass Design in 1982. He received numerous awards throughout his career, including the distinguished Academic Achievement Award in 1993 and the Honored Scholar in Art in 2000 from his college in Montana. His work and life's story were featured in the 1991 Fall issue of Stained Glass. He was an active member of the Stained Glass Association of America. In 1992 he received a National Endowment Grant to train his apprentice in glass painting and restoration. Aside from his original work, he restored numerous historical turn-of-the-century panels of glass, including an original Tiffany window located in Helena, Montana. He also worked in wood, fiber, plastic, metal, graphic design, and was an accomplished photographer. He was involved with liturgical and ecclesiastical art both as designer and fabricator.

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