Arts and Crafts Movement

firm 9s trade catalogues.<br><br> Winterthur also owns an almost complete run of The Craftsman and a number of trade catalogues, including the very rare What Is Wrought in the Craftsman Workshops (Syracuse,1904). Rose Valley In 1901 architect Will Price and his associates founded the Rose Valley colony for the cmanufac- ture of structures,articles,materials and products involving artistic handicraft. dLocated on the ruinsof the abandoned Rose Valley Mills near Philadelphia,the utopian community produced furniture,bookbindings,pottery,and the journal The Artsman . Winterthur 9s material on the community includes the legal papers,correspondence,meeting minutes, and letter book of the Rose Valley Association covering the years 1901 to 1904.The Rose Valley Press material consists of examples of printing and line cuts.A complete run of The Artsman as well as several rare advertising flyers and bulletins are also in the collection.<br><br> Roycroft The more commercially successful community of Roycroft in East Aurora,New York,produced books,furniture,leather,and metalwork from 1895 to 1938.Founded by Elbert Hubbard (1856 31915),a successful businessman with advertising and mass marketing skills,Roycroft combined the ideals of William Morris with the techniques of capitalism. Winterthur 9s collection of printed material includes original trade catalogues for Roycroft products,including copper and leather objects, furniture,and books as well as many issues of Hubbard 9s periodicals The Era and The Philistine . In 1992 the library acquired a collection of more than 150 glass-plate negatives and lantern slides from Roycroft.Images include the workshops and workers,exterior scenes,portraits,and photo- graphs used in the trade catalogues.<br><br> Byrdcliffe Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead (1854 31929),an independently wealthy Englishman and student of John Ruskin,founded an arts colony in rural Woodstock,New York,in 1902.He invited talented craftsmen to work and teach at Byrdcliffe,hoping to offer a healthy environment for workers to combine intellectual and manual labor.The community was never successful either financially or socially.Furniture production ceased in 1905, and many of the artisans left.Pottery and weaving production continued,and a number of well-known artists and intellectual figures continued to visit, but by 1915 the once-lively community had come to an end. All of Byrdcliffe 9s archives and most of Whitehead 9s personal papers have been donated to the Winterthur Library.The collection includes hundreds of original drawings of items made in the colony,more than 400 photographs 4including ones taken by Jessie Tarbox Beals 4and books and periodicals from the Byrdcliffe library as well as a large collection of art reference prints. Parke E.Edwards Metal designer Parke Edwards (1892 31975) is sig- nificant as one of the first generation of school- Hand Made Gifts from the Roycroft Shops,Roycroft Shops,East Aurora,N.Y.,1917.<br><br> Printed Book Collection,Winterthur Library . Ralph Whitehead on the porch of White Pines,Byrdcliffe,Woodstock,N.Y.,ca.1910. Downs Collection,Winterthur Library.<br><br> Winterthur Library is located in the Crowninshield Research Building,accessible from the main entrance to Winterthur Museum & Country Estate. Hours:Monday 3Friday,8:30 am 34:30 pm 800.448.3883 e 302.888.4681 www.winterthur.org f reference@winterthur.org ef trained craftsmen and because his career reveals arts and crafts practices reaching the mid- twentieth century.He attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and later studied with renowned Philadelphia blacksmith Samuel Yellin.Edwards was best known for the design, execution,and installation of the decorative metalwork for the Swedenborgian Cathedral at Bryn Athyn,Pennsylvania. The Parke Edwards archives at Winterthur consists of original watercolor and pen and ink designs for metal objects and architectural elements, including doors,windows,hardware,and lighting devices as well as a few examples of his work in metal.Student sketches,correspondence,photo- graphs,and clippings support the design work.<br><br> Additional Resources The Winterthur Library contains many other important arts and crafts resources.Periodicals of the era in the collection include Keramic Studio , Handicraft , House and Garden , International Studio ,and House Beautifu l.Books on decorating advice and amateur crafts and photographs of objects in museum and private collections support research.Trade catalogues,trade cards,and advertisements from manufacturers who produced furniture and decorative items for the mass market in the arts and crafts style and material on interior design firms inspired by the group bring the movement into the contemporary era.

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