The art glass windows designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at the Darwin Martin House Complex won’t be in full view until interior restoration work is done.

Until then, Wright aficionados may rejoice over Eric Jackson-Forsberg’s handsomely produced book “Frank Lloyd Wright: Art Glass of the Martin House Complex.”

The Martin House curator edited a handful of essays and wrote two others to go with dozens of photographs that show off the 16 art glass patterns that once filled the Martin House complex’s windows, doors, skylights and cabinet inserts.

The book also includes original drawings, historic photographs, floor plans and excerpts from Wright’s personal correspondence for the house, built between 1903 and 1905.

“You can see a few of these patterns in place right now, but there are some others not back in place because the space isn’t ready to receive them yet. The book is trying to compensate for that somewhat, and give people a preview of what’s to come,” Jackson-Forsberg said.

The book builds on a catalog done for the 1999 exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright: Windows of the Darwin

D. Martin House” at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. That was organized by the museum, the Martin House Restoration Corp. and architect Theodore Lownie.

“The catalog for the Burchfield Penney show was good, but it was an exhibition catalog that was 10 years ago. This is by far the most comprehensive documentation of this particular aspect of the design of the complex,” Jackson-Forsberg said.

Wright called the decorative leaded glass windows “light screens” for the way they allowed the outside in while at the same time offering an awareness of shelter.

The Martin House Restoration Corp. owns roughly half of the 394 art glass windows Wright created for the complex. It plans to replicate the rest.

One area of interest for Jackson- Forsberg was how the “Tree of Life” design, of which there were once more than 60 in the Martin House, became the iconic art glass image. He started researching the origin of its popularity after coming to work at the Martin House in 2003. Before

that, he was curator for collections and exhibitions at the Castellani Art Museum on the campus of Niagara University.

“It’s a fascinating issue to me, and I think it has so much to do with how that particular pattern was promoted in the mid-to late-’60s, when some of the windows were being sold off and various museums and galleries were acquiring them,” Jackson-Forsberg said. “The realization is that we’ll never know the answer to that definitively.”

Art glass expert Julie Sloan, in the introduction, notes that “the ‘Tree of Life’ window is one of the best known and most loved of his designs in any medium.”

Jackson-Forsberg, whose favorite pattern is the “Conservatory Window,” hopes the book will also give prominence to the full array of art glass windows he said “are arguably as accomplished stylistically.”

The book, which is published by Pomegranate Communications and sells for $27.95, is available at the Martin House’s Wisteria Shop and other local museums.