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Art with a Mission: Objects of the Arts and Crafts Movement

Art with a Mission: Objects of the Arts and Crafts Movement

Pat Fidler, curator

Kress Gallery and South Balcony, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

More than one hundred English and American objects from the late nineteenth century document development of the Arts and Crafts movement. Furniture by Gustav Stickley; stained glass from the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany; prints, wallpaper, and book illustrations by William Morris; and ceramics, silver, metalwork, and jewelry are on display.

Exhibition images

Works of art

William Morris (1834–1896); Morris, Marshal, Faulkner & Co., Sussex chair

George Grant Elmslie (1869–1952); Louis Henry Sullivan (1856–1924), baluster from the Carson, Pirie, Scott building, Chicago

Sarah Agnes Estelle Irvine (1887–1970); Joseph Fortune Meyer (1848–1931); Newcomb Pottery (active 1895–1940), vase

Anna Frances Simpson (1880–1930); Joseph Fortune Meyer (1848–1931); Newcomb Pottery (active 1895–1940), vase

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), Salamander vase

William Henry Bradley (1868–1962), Frontispiece for "The Chap-Book"

William Henry Bradley (1868–1962), frontispiece for "When Hearts are Trumps"

William Henry Bradley (1868–1962), Christmas cover for "The Inland Printer"

Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922), Modern Art

William Morris (1834–1896); Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), Lucretia

William Morris (1834–1896), Double Bough

John La Farge (1835–1910), Hope

John La Farge (1835–1910), Armorial Composition

John La Farge (1835–1910), Virgil

William Seltzer Rice (1873–1963), Bert's Iris

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952), Qa'hila - Koprino

Adolf de Meyer (1868–1949), Still life (Waterlilies)

Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966), The Cloud, Bavaria, Plate #1

Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966), The Ferry, New York

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934), untitled (bust of a female figure)

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934), untitled (portrait of Mrs. Vitale)

Heaton, Butler & Bayne, New York & London (active late 1800s), The Resurrection

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