From Octoto Februvisitors to Delaware Art Museum can enjoy seeing over 70 treasures from the De Morgan Collection, including drawings, paintings and ceramics. “A Marriage of Art and Craft” is the first retrospective exhibition of artwork by William and Evelyn De Morgan to come to the USA. Roger Billcliffe, former Director of The Fine Art Society, will trace the development of the so-called ‘Glasgow Style’ from 1893-1900 its growing recognition and frame across Europe until 1910 and, as tastes and personal fortunes changed, its transition into the individual styles of its creators into the 1920s.Ī Marriage of Arts and Crafts: William and Evelyn De Morgan, by Sarah Hardy Nicknamed ’The Four’ by their contemporaries they collaborated or worked singly building new vocabulary, palettes and techniques (across several very different media), until in 18 they paired off and married – Bertie MacNair to Frances Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh to Margaret Macdonald.Īt this point their lives and careers changed, partly through geographical separation, and partly through the growing success of Mackintosh’s work as an architect, which propelled him and Margaret into international recognition. In the early 1890s four students at Glasgow School of Art – two men training as architects and two women artists – met through a student society and began to develop a shared style which had more in common with developments across Europe than traditional Scottish Art. Click here to jump down to the upcoming lecture.) (Scroll down to view information for each lecture in the current series. Thanks to a generous grant from the Victorian Society Scholarship Fund, all lectures are offered for FREE! If you cannot attend a live lecture, recordings will be made available (with registration) for two weeks following each lecture. Please click on the link below each talk to RSVP. Lectures will be conducted by Zoom Webinar. We look forward to exploring the great art, architecture, and design of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain and America with you! Pugin, Oscar Wilde, McKim Mead & White, Frank Furness, William & Evelyn De Morgan, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his circle, as well as examining the evolution of American department stores, the Gilded Age in Newport, and the influence of Japan in Boston and environs. Our three internationally-acclaimed Summer Schools in Newport, London, and Chicago, continue to inspire us for a third series of online lectures! Lectures will examine the lives and work of British and American artists and architects such as A. ** THIS SERIES HAS CONCLUDED, BUT STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OUR NEXT SEASON STARTING THIS FALL! **
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