WILLIAM MORRIS CENTENARY EVENTS IN NEW YORK DECEMBER 1996 William Morris in Our Time conference William Morris: The Collector as Creator exhibition   WILLIAM MORRIS IN OUR TIME Conference at CUNY Graduate Center and the Grolier Club Friday and Saturday, 6-7 December 1996 On 6-7 December 1996 the City University of New York and the Grolier Club will host William Morris in Our Time, a two-day conference on Morris featuring internationally-known speakers in a variety of disciplines: CONFERENCE SCHEDULE FRIDAY, 6 DECEMBER CUNY Graduate Center, The Proshansky Auditorium, 33 West 42nd Street, New York 9.00am COFFEE 9.30 a.m. WELCOME Frances Degen Horowitz, President of the Graduate Center William P. Kelly, Executive Officer, English Program Mark Samuels Lasner Norman Kelvin, Conference Director 10.00am SESSION I Moderator: Carole Silver, Yeshiva University Linda Parry, Victoria and Albert Museum A Certain Willfulness: Morris and Domestic Decoration Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University William Morris and the Concept of "Industrial Art" Peter Cormack, William Morris Gallery Teamwork and Division of Labour: Some Design and Production Methods in Morris and Co.   1.30pm SESSION II Moderator: Florence Boos, University of Iowa Susan P. Casteras, University of Washington An Iconographical Defense of Guenevere Peter Faulkner, University of Exeter No Angels? The Presentation of Women in Morris's Poetry Jan Marsh, writer and Associate Fellow of Newham College, Cambridge William Morris and Victorian Masculinity: Concordance and Challenge   3.45pm SESSION III Moderator: Jeffrey Spear, New York University Lionel Lamborune OBE Morris-A Portrait in Caricature Peter Stansky, Stanford University Morris and Bloomsbury Margaret D. Stetz, Georgetown University William Morris into a New Century: From an African Farm to a Hollywood Studio 5.30pm Reception on the 40th floor Grace Building SATURDAY, 7 DECEMBER The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York 1.30pm Informal exhibition talk Mark Samuels Lasner, William Morris Society William Morris: The Collector as Creator   2.00pm SESSION IV Moderator: Hartley Spatt, Maritime College SUNY John Dreyfus, President, Printing Historical Society of London Our Legacy from the Typographical Adventure of William Morris Nancy Finlay, New York Public Library The Influence of William Morris on Printing and Book Design in Boston, 1880-1930 William S. Peterson, University of Maryland William Morris and Nineteenth-Century English Printing Respondent: Frank Sharp, independent scholar Free and open to the public. No registration necessary, but space is limited. William Morris in Our Time is sponsored by the Ph.D Program in English of the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY; the CCNY Division of the Humanities, Martin Tamny, Dean, in conjunction with The City College Fund and the Rifkind Center for the Humanities, with the generous support of Herbert Robinson; the William Morris Society; The Center for the Humanities, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY; the Robinson Center for the Graphic Arts and Communication Design, CCNY; and the Grolier Club. WILLIAM MORRIS: THE COLLECTOR AS CREATOR Exhibition at the Grolier Club 47 East 60th Street, New York City 11 December 1996-15 February 1997 To commemorate the centenary of the death of William Morris the Grolier Club will open William Morris: The Collector as Creator on 11 December 1996. The exhibition focuses on the importance of books in Morris's multifaceted life as poet, translator, designer, calligrapher, traveller, political reformer and, ultimately, printer and typographer. The considerable library Morris amassed makes it clear that he was both a book collector in the usual sense of the word, acquiring and treasuring rare editions, and a collector in a broader sense, accumulating and then transforming ideas and influences that came to him via the printed word and image. His own great intellectual and creative impact on Victorian literature, culture, and printing can be traced, in turn, through the texts that he himself produced. This exhibition will present a wide selection of the books collected by Morris that served as creative sparks for his work: medieval manuscripts; incunabula; guides to the decorative arts; "books about books"; English literature; and Scandinavian sagas. Examples of Morris's own publications and achievements in the book arts will also be included, along with letters, manuscripts, photographs, drawings, and portraits. Most of the items--drawn from two dozen private and public collections in England and the United States, as well as from the Grolier Club's own holdings--have never before been exhibited. Among the highlights will be Morris's own copies of such books significant to his artistic development as the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499), Gerard's Herball (1636), and Malory's La Mort D'Arthure (1858). Morris's annotated copy of Chaucer's Works will be displayed alongside his last great achievement, the Kelmscott Chaucer, for which it served as copy-text. William Morris: The Collector as Creator is organized by Mark Samuels Lasner, President of the William Morris Society in the United States, with the assistance of William S. Peterson, the historian and bibliographer of the Kelmscott Press. LOCATION AND TIMES: The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022. 11 December-15 February 1997, Monday through Saturday, 10am-5 pm, except 24, 25, 26, 31 December and 1 January, when the Club closes for the holidays. The exhibition is open to the public without charge. For more information: Nancy Houghton, Tel. (212) 838-6690, nsh@grolierclb.com. PUBLICATIONS: The Grolier Club and the William Morris Society are co-publishing two books to accompany the exhibition. One, an exhibition handlist, has been written by the show's curator, Mark Samuels Lasner. The other is a definitive edition of the seminal A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press edited by William S. Peterson. Both publications are limited editions, handsomely printed by the Stinehour Press. 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