Gustav Stickley Hits the Road

On September 15 at the Newark Museum of Art, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement will open as the first nationally touring exhibition to offer a comprehensive examination of the work of one of the leading figures of the American Arts and Crafts movement.

Organized by the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), the exhibition will examine Stickley’s contributions to the American Arts and Crafts movement during his most productive and creative period, from 1900 to 1913. It will include more than one hundred works produced by Stickley’s designers and workshops, including furniture, metalwork, lighting, and textiles, along with architectural drawings and related designs.

The majority of the objects on view are from private collections and three-quarters have never been seen before by the public. A major highlight of the exhibition is the re-creation of a dining room arranged and furnished by Stickley that was originally designed for his 1903 Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Syracuse, New York.

Curated by Kevin W. Tucker, The Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Dallas Museum of Art, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement will premiere at the Newark Museum of Art on September 15, 2010, to coincide with the 100th birthday of Stickley’s home, Craftsman Farms, in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey.

The exhibition will subsequently open at the Dallas Museum of Art on February 13, 2011, and at the San Diego Museum of Art on June 18, 2011.

“Until now, no one exhibition has brought forth such a comprehensive study of the most exceptional work of Stickley’s career, nor explored the aesthetic and meaning of these objects as lenses on the era and the American Arts and Crafts movement,” said Bonnie Pitman, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. “Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement will provide new perspective on design, production, and dissemination of his firm’s work. The exhibition will also provide a deeper understanding of the remarkable legacy of his artistic enterprise in transforming the vision of the ideal household of the early 20th century.”

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated 272-page catalogue, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, by Kevin W. Tucker, with essays and contributions by Beverly K. Brandt, David Cathers, Joseph Cunningham, and Beth Ann and Tommy McPherson and an introduction by Bonnie Pitman, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art.

For more information, please contact:

Dallas Museum of Art:

Jill Bernstein

Dallas Museum of Art

214-922-1802

JBernstein@DallasMuseumofArt.org