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October Will Be A Celebration of Ruskin, Roycroft & Stickley
by Kate Nixon Ruskin, Roycroft and the Arts & Crafts – Saturdays, October 3rd – 31st, 2020 October looks to be an incredibly busy month, especially on Saturdays with ongoing virtual classroom opportunities, tours, and the annual Craftsman Gala going virtual for the very first time. “Ruskin, Roycroft, and the Arts and Crafts Movement” is an exciting new series of virtual talks and a collaboration from The Roycroft Campus, The Ruskin Society of North America, and The Guild of St. George that will occur on all five Saturdays in October, starting October 3rd with Professor Jim Spates. The first …
Little Journeys
By Bruce Johnson
A Love Affair With Chairs
Sometimes it’s the smallest comment that sticks with you the longest. My brother, who lives in Illinois, came to visit this past summer. When he stepped into our two-story ranch house, he slowly surveyed our rooms before announcing, “Boy, you sure like chairs.” I thought it seemed perfectly normal to have an assortment of chairs placed strategically throughout your house, but after he left, I started counting: a couple of Roycroft-Grove Park Inn dining chairs, a GPI wicker rocking chair, a Gustav Stickley rocking chair, arm chair, straight chair, and settee, and six Morris chairs. Plus, another six chairs …
Collector’s Guide
Learning About “The Decorative Impulse” & An Arts & Crafts Auction
by Kate Nixon The virtual classroom and an virtual Arts and Auction auction will be open this Saturday for interested Arts and Crafts collectors and enthusiasts. The latter comes from Alameda, California’s AC Stickley as they bring unique Arts and Crafts works online to bidders all over the country. Before the auction, interested collectors can learn about “The Decorative Impulse and the Arts and Crafts.” * Tall-back Chair, ca. 1898-99. Charles Rohlfs. Oak. Photo by Gavin Ashworth, image courtesy of Princeton University Art Museum. * “Modern Steel Carving.” Frank L. Koralewsky. Steel. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American …
Traveler’s Guide
Whether it be a museum with an Arts & Crafts collection, a nearby Prairie School home, a bungalow neighborhood, an Arts & Crafts gallery or a Frederick Law Olmstead park, just being able to add an Arts & Crafts side trip to our journey would add to our enjoyment and our education.
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How-To Videos
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how valuable is a video?
Here at ArtsandCraftsCollector.com we have been busy making brief, informative videos to educate and instruct viewers in a variety of aspects of Arts & Crafts collecting.
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Know Your Shopmarks
We are currently in the process of collecting, organizing, identifying and displaying on this website as many Arts & Crafts shopmarks as possible. And like our Reference Library, we need your help. While we have documented the shopmarks of the major Arts & Crafts firms, we need for you to email us a photograph of any shopmarks you have from lesser known firms, along with a brief description of the piece.
Shopmark Guide
Books Worth Reading
As both a collector and a researcher, I have often wished there was one site where every book ever written on the Arts & Crafts movement was listed. Now that place exists. Together we can compile on this website a list of every book of interest to Arts & Crafts collectors. All you have to do is pull some of the books off your bookshelf (go for the less obvious ones – and check below for duplicate entries) and email me the title, author, publisher and most recent copyright date. I will sort them by category and list them here so that anytime you or anyone else wants to research anything relating to the Arts & Crafts movement, you will start your search here.
Reference Library
