A current exhibition explores the life and work of an eminent late Victorian artistic couple, Evelyn and William De Morgan.
Community Chest
Artist and artisan Madeline Yale Wynne and the founding of the Deerfield arts and crafts movement.
“Beautiful, Useful, and Enduring”
The story of the estimable arts and crafts silver of the Kalo Shop and the principled, indomitable woman at the firm’s helm: Clara Barck Welles.
Current and coming: Copper bright in Oregon
An overlooked metal gets the spotlight at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
In Defense of Ornament
Is less more? Or is too much never enough?
Elbert Hubbard: An American Original
Premiering tonight on PBS (check here for local listings), Elbert Hubbard: An American Original offers a sweeping profile of the arts and crafts visionary and founder of East Aurora, New York’s Roycroft community. Charting the controversial and often contradictory course of Hubbard’s personal and professional lives, this documentary film by Paul Lamont includes wonderful archival footage as well as interviews …
Queries: Jewelry designer and metal artist Marie Zimmermann
The versatile jewelry designer and metalsmith Marie Zimmermann (1879-1972) is the subject of a forthcoming monograph sponsored by the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1879, Zimmermann’s training in the arts began with courses in drawing, painting, and modeling at the Art Students League in New York likely followed by courses in art metalwork at …
Maher’s Moment: A Prairie School master emerges
George Washington Maher is having his moment in the sun
Arts and crafts silver
The art and craft of collecting silver
Stickley in Dallas
Taken for granted for decades, Stickley furniture finally attracted interest from major museums
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