Grueby Faience Company (1897-1919)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Trained at Low Art Tile Works in Revere, Massachusetts, William Henry Grueby (1867-1925) entered a partnership with Eugene Atwood in 1891 to create a subsidiary of Fiske, Homes and Company, a Boston management company specializing in architectural tile and related products.
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
As an artist and teacher, Thomas Eakins championed a realistic approach to art and praised the use of preparatory drawings made from live models. During the 1880s, Eakins was one of the first American painters to use photography as a tool in training the artist's eye in the anatomy and physiology of the human figure.
George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
George Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio, and there attended Ohio State University (1901-04) before leaving his senior year to study art in New York. He gave up a promising career in baseball to pursue his first love, art. Sports became a primary theme in his work, but he was also well known for painting landscapes, portraits and figure compositions with vitality and strong emotion.
The Blacker House Doors
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This magnificent set of teakwood and leaded stained-glass doors was designed by brothers Charles Sumner Greene (1868-1957) and Henry Mather Greene (1870-1954), praised as the most important West Coast architects of the American Arts and Crafts movement. The Blacker House, designed in 1907, was the grandest of the famed California Bungalows that date from this most import ant period of the Greenes' activity, and it remains cherished as their masterpiece.
1994.183.A-C Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene, Front doors
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
These front doors were one of the most significant features of the 1907 Robert R. Blacker House in Pasadena, California.
Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1924)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
At the turn of the 20th century, Charles Robert Ashbee and his Guild of Handicraft were at the vanguard of English handmade metalware and jewelry. More so than any other British designer or manufacturer, they successfully combined the ideological and the aesthetic ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement.
2009.10.A-B Charles Robert Ashbee, Sporting cup
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The work of architect and designer Charles Robert Ashbee reflected the ideals of craftsmanship espoused by Englishman William Morris, one of the leading figures of the English Arts and Crafts movement.
Mesopotamia
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Mesopotamia, located in modern day Iraq, is known by several names, including the "Cradle of Civilization" and "Land Between Two Rivers." This land is known for its innovative move to farming culture from hunting and gathering practices.