2000 WILLIAM MORRIS EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES Through 2000 The Tile Club and the Aesthetic Movement in America (1877-1887) Exhibition at the Museums of Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY. Focuses on fine and decorative arts produced by members of the Tile Club, a group of New York artists which included Winslow Homer and Edwin Austen Abbey. Travels to the Lyman Allen Art Museum (New London, CT) and The Frick Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA). Contact: (516) 751-0066, www.museumsatstonybrook.org. To 27 February 2000 E. W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer Exhibition at Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York. Drawings, furniture, designs by the architect associate of Wilde and Whistler. Contact: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 18 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024, Tel. (212) 501-3072, www.bard.edu/graduate/BGC/index.html. To 1 August 2000 Leading "The Simple Life": The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, 1880-1910 Exhibition at The Wolfsonian, Miami, FL. Major show of holdings from The Wolfsonian's collections, includes objects by William Morris and his associates, contemporaries, and followers. Lectures and related programs. Contact: The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami, FL 33139, Tel. (305) 531-1001. 12 January through March 2000 John Ruskin Exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Commemorates the centenary of Ruskin's death with a small exhibition of manuscripts, drawings, letters, books, photographs, and memorabilia drawn from its extensive Ruskin holdings. Contact: Vincent Giroud, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Tel. (203) 432-2872. 20 January to 27 February 2000 Ruskin: Past: Present: Future Exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art and other collections at Yale University. The dates are 20 January to 27 February, and there is a symposium scheduled for 22 January. Contact: Gillian Forrester, Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, Box 208280, New Haven, CT 06520; Tel. (203) 432-2842, fax (203) 432-0613, gillian.forrester@yale.edu. 16 February to 29 April 2000 Remembering John Ruskin, 1819-1900 Exhibtiion at the Grolier Club, New York. Drawn from the private collection of R. Dyke Benjamin and the resources of Harvard's Houghton Library, this centenary show features books, manuscripts, and original art works by and associated with Ruskin. Contact: Nancy Houghton, The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022, Tel. (212) 838-6690, nsh@grolierclub.org. 6 April to 30 June 2000 Art in the Age of Queen Victoria (1837-1901): Paintings and Sculpture from the Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition at the National Academy Museum, New York. Paintings and other works from the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The artists include Edwin Austin Abbey, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Academy President,Charles Eastlake, Sir Hubert von Herkomer, Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir John Everett Millais, William Powell Frith, and Richard Redgrave. Contact: National Academy of Design, 1083 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128. Friday, 5 May 2000, 10.30am Natural by Design: The Floral Patterns of William Morris Lecture by Dorothy Raphaely, in conjunction with Leading "The Simple Life": The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, 1880-1910 Exhibition at The Wolfsonian, Miami, FL. Major show of holdings from The Wolfsonian's collections, includes objects by William Morris and his associates, contemporaries, and followers. Lectures and related programs. Contact: The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami, FL 33139, Tel. (305) 531-1001. 8 May to 26 June 2000 A Kelmscott Miscellany: Books by and about William Morris and his Circle drawn from the Collections of the Book Club of California Exhibition at Book Club of California, San Francisco, CA. Mondays, 10am to 7pm; Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm. Open to the public. Contact: Book Club of California, 312 Sutter Street, Suite 510, San Francisco, CA 94108, Tel. (415) 781-7532 and (900) 869-7656. Tuesday, 16 May 2000, 9am to 5pm Artistic Glories of the Nineteenth Century Symposium on Victorian art, presented by the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust. Held at the National Academy Museum, New York, in conjunction with the exhibition, Art in the Age of Queen Victoria (1837-1901): Paintings and Sculpture from the Royal Academy of Arts. Tickets $50.00-125.00. Speaksers include: MaryAnn Stevens, Malcolm Warner, Christopher Forbes, and Peter Trippi. Contact: American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust, 555 Madison Avenue, Suite 1300, New York, NY 10022, Tel. (212) 980-8404. 1 June 1 to 27 July 2000 The Arts and Crafts Movement in England and America Course offered by New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies program in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts. Eight sessions on Thursdays from 3-5pm, 1 June through 27 July at The NYU Midtown Center, 11 West 42nd St., New York, NY (no class 15 June, and additional field trips to be scheduled). Instructor: James Elliott Benjamin and guest speakers. The class will examine the contributions of Pugin, Ruskin and Morris to the movement and survey a broad range of their followers including Ernest Gimson, C. R. Ashbee, C.F.A. Voysey, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene & Greene, Gustav Stickley, Elbert Hubbard, and others. Furniture and interiors, metalwork and jewelry, ceramics, and printing are discussed in class sessions, museum, gallery, auction house and private collection visits as well as trips to historic sites. Course no. X03.9618. Tuition: $440 (plus registration fee). Registration: 212-998-717. Info: 212-998-7080, 212-998-7130. Friday, 2 June 2000, 6pm William Morris in the Twenty-First Century Lecture by Peter Stansky, Green Professor of History, Stanford University, in honor of Norman Kelvin, editor of The Collected Letters of William Morris and Distinguished Professor of English at The City College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. To be held at the Morgan Library, 29 East 36th Street, New York, NY. Attendance limited: you must RSVP to the Morgan Library (there will be a list at the door). Contact: The Morgan Library, Tel. (212) 685-0008, ext. 459, e-mail rsvp@morganlibrary.org. 15-17 June 2000 Facing West: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America Conference in Los Angeles, CA. Sponsored by the School of Continuing Education, New York University. The fee for the conference is $375.00, and there is a $20.00 registration fee. For additional information contact: Programs in the Arts, New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, 48 Cooper Square, Room 108, New York, New York 10003; Tel: (212) 998-7130, fax: (212) 995-4293. 22 June to 4 September 2000 Centennial Celebration of Arden: Delaware's Arts and Crafts Community Exhibition at Delaware Art Museum. First show devoted to the Arts and Crafts community of Arden, Delaware. The show traces Arden's history from its founding in 1900 to the 1935 death of its visionary leader, Frank Stephens.  An advocate of the single-tax and much influenced by the ideas of William Morris and John Ruskin, Stephens started a deliberately "artistic" village in which the residents produced art, crafts, literary, musical, and theatrical works for the community and to market to a broad audience. Included in the show are examples of the painting, sculpture, ceramics, prints, and drawings, plus metal, furniture, textiles, stained glass, and book arts created in Arden. Contact: Delaware Art Museum, Tel. (302) 571-9590, www.delart.mus.de.us. 28 September 2000 to 7 January 2001 Ruskin's Italy, Ruskin's England Exhibition at the Morgan Library, New York. This yearmarks the centenary of the death of one of the most influential figures of the ]Victorian age, John Ruskin (1819&endash;1900). The Morgan Library, which houses one of the world's most comprehensive Ruskin collections, will commemorate the occasion with an exhibition of drawings, watercolors, manuscripts, and books drawn primarily from its holdings of materials by Ruskin and his contemporaries. As an artist, art critic, and social commentator, Ruskin produced an enormous and varied body of work. His ideas about art, architecture, and society, expressed with remarkable passion and eloquence, are enduring legacies. Among the highlights of the exhibition are Ruskin's original manuscripts of his two most important works, The Stones of Venice (1851&endash;53) and Modern Painters (1843&endash;60), his commissioned photographs as well as his own drawings for Stones, his Self-Portrait, in Blue Neckcloth (1873), John Everett Millais's portrait of him (1854), J. M. W. Turner's watercolor The Pass at Faido, St. Gotthard (Thaw Collection; 1843), and works of other artists whom he championed. Manuscripts and printed editions of The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1848), Praeterita (1885&endash;89), The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1884), and other works also are included. Selections from the Library's comprehensive collection of Ruskin correspondence and artifacts will touch upon important biographical details, including his religious upbringing, his mentoring of the illustrator Kate Greenaway and other artists, his unconsummated marriage to Euphemia ("Effie") Chalmers Gray, which ended, after six years, when she left him for John Everett Millais, and his recurrent emotional breakdowns. Contact: Robert Parks, Pierpont Morgan Library, 29 East 36th Street, New York, NY 10016; Tel. (212) 685-0008, fax (212) 685-4740, 6 October 2000 to 3 January 2001 The Defining Moment: Victorian Narrative Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection Exhibition at Delaware Art Museum. Fifty paintings from the Forbes Magazine collection, assembled by Christopher Forbes in the landmark Old Battersea House, London. These pictures, many of which were shown at the Royal Academy, explore the 19th century British predilection for narrative paintings. This skilled group of Victorian artists includes the Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais and Royal Academicians William Powell Frith and James J. Tissot. Contact: Delaware Art Museum, Tel. (302) 571-9590, www.delart.mus.de.us. 8 October 2000 to 28 January 2001 Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Wahsington, DC. Approximately 350 works will explore one of the most exuberant and visually appealing styles in modern art, which flourished throughout Europe and in major American cities from about 1890 to the First World War. Opening with a selection of about thirty international art nouveau masterpieces that were displayed at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, the exhibition will explore the sources of art nouveau and examine its interpretations in eight European and American cities. Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 has been organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art. The exhibition will travel to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 21 April - 8 July 2001. 19 - 20 October 2000 Unifying the Useful with the Beautiful: Architecture of the Arts and Crafts Movement Second annual Arts and Crafts conference at the Hotel Pattee, Perry, IA. Includes lectures and tours. The Hotel Pattee's meeting space accommodates 150 persons, so reservations for the Conference are limited and will be accepted in the order in which they are received. The Conference Package includes all lectures ($495.00, Early bird: $450 before June 1, 2000) to Hotel Pattee Arts and Crafts Conference, P.O. Box 307, Perry, IA  50220. Credit card registrations may be sent by fax to (515) 465-3909. For more information, please contact: Elaine Hirschl Ellis, Conference Director, Tel. (212) 362-0761, toll free (877) 797-6886, fax (212) 787-2823, artconf@aol.com. 27 - 30 December 2000 William Morris Society events at the Modern Language Associaiton annual convention Washington, DC. One session of papers on the topic, "Victorian Writing/Victorian Art." Other events will include an important business meeting of the Society and a talk by author Debra Mancoff at Chapters Bookstore. 29 December 2000, 5pm "Her Face is Made Her Shrine": Portraits of Jane Morris by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Talk by Debra N. Mancoff sponsored by the William Morris Society. Followed by a party and social gathering. Free and open to bhe public; you do not need to be a member of the Society to attend. At Chapters Bookstore, 1512 K Street NW, Washington, DC. Contact: Chapters, Tel. (202) 347-5495. 30 December 2000, 12noon Special Business Meeting of the William Morris Society At Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road, Washington, DC. To vote on new by-laws and elect new Governing Committee. HOME · NEW · EVENTS · NEWSLETTER · SITE ARCHIVE · ABOUT THE SOCIETY MORRIS' LIFE AND WORKS · PRODUCTS · LINKS · SITE MAP · CONTACT US LAST UPDATE 4 JAN 2001 · PLEASE REPORT BROKEN LINKS TO WEBMASTER@MORRISSOCIETY.ORG