Carlisle Flowers
Richard Loader is one of the International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition finalists. The International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition (IGPOTY) will be displayed on the northern most path on the Downs. It will feature, for the first time ever, the collected images from the trees category of this prestigious international award from the last two […]
John La Farge, painter, stained glass designer. Among his many commissions, decoration of the Trinity Church in Boston placed La Farge at the forefront of the American Arts and Crafts movement. He early admired the formality and patterning of Japanese art, and he recorded his impressions of his travels in Asia in An Artist’s Letters from […]
Designed by Annie E. Aldrich (American, 1857–1937); Made by John Swallow (American, born England, active c. 1910); Decorated by Sarah Tutt (American, 1859–1947); Marblehead Pottery (1904–1936). Vase, c. 1909. Marblehead, Massachusetts. Glazed earthenware. The Art Institute of Chicago, Vance American Fund; restricted gift of the Antiquarian Society.
William Morris was such a protean figure that the following sections of the William Morris Society website can only provide a guide to his life and works. Two of the four sections of the website illustrate Morris’ Art and Life, containing introductory material, examples, and links to additional material found on the website. Art: Morris’s […]
The William Morris Gallery is the only museum in the world specifically devoted to the life, work and influence of William Morris (1834-1896), the artist, craftsman, writer, socialist and environmental campaigner. It is housed in his former family home, ‘Water House’. William Morris’ design work is known for its major influence in the establishment of […]
The Pre-Raphaelite Movement was launched in 1848 by seven men, writes Debra N. Mancoff, Associate Adjunct Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library in her book, “Flora Symbolica – Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art”. The artists were: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his brother, William Michael Rosetti, […]
