Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement

February 13-May 8, 2011

Chilton II Gallery

Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement will offer the first comprehensive examination of the life and work of the recognized patriarch of the American Arts and Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue will explore Stickley as a business leader and design proselytizer, whose body of work included furnishings, architectural and interior designs, and related imagery that became synonymous with the movement that was at its height between approximately 1880 and 1910. This exhibition will include more than ninety works produced by Stickley's designers and workshops, including furniture, metalwork, lighting, and textiles, along with drawings and related designs. Also featured in the exhibition is a re-creation of Stickley's seminal model dining room from his 1903 Syracuse Arts and Crafts exhibition.

The exhibition is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and curated by Kevin W. Tucker, The Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design. The exhibition will premiere at the Newark Museum in fall of 2010 and continue its tour at the Dallas Museum of Art in spring of 2011 before concluding at the Cincinnati Art Museum in summer of that year.

The exhibition is supported by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Henry Luce Foundation.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by the Dallas Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press and underwritten by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

Image:

Linen chest, Gustav Stickley, designer, United Crafts, Eastwood, New York, 1903, oak and iron, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., facilitated by American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, 2008.22.McD

The Dallas Museum of Art is supported in part by the generosity of Museum members and donors and by the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas/Office of Cultural Affairs and the Texas Commission on the Arts.