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Fashion, furnishings of Arts and Crafts era unite in ‘The American Look’ - Click here A Room of Their Own: The output of the artists in the Bloomsbury group—including paintings, prints, drawings, decorative arts and designs, books, and other works—exemplified the breadth and strength of their complex talents and revealed their responses to war, industry, sexuality, and the environment. The work of Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf’s sister), Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and Dora Carrington, as well as works produced by Fry’s Omega Workshops and books from the Woolfs’ Hogarth Press, represents the very heart of Bloomsbury. This exhibition, organized by the Johnson, includes nearly two hundred works created over a fifty-year period from both public and private collectors in the United States and was previously on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. It will travel to Mills College Art Museum in California, the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, the Smith College Museum of Art in Massachusetts, and the Palmer Museum of Art at The Pennsylvania State University. http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/currex/exhibits2.html Order the catalogue from Cornell University Press
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On
her 95th birthday on February 22 a few friends gathered
for a little lunch and to be present when Felicity received
the first copy of her latest book, published by Syracuse
University Press. Child in Jerusalem is a charming child’s-eye
memoir of her family’s sojourn in Jerusalem from
1919 to 1923. Her father, the famous Arts and Crafts
figure, Charles Robert Ashbee, had gone after World War
I to help rebuild the city’s walls. You may recall
that Felicitiy came to Daltons in 2002 for a book signing
at Daltons. Syracuse University Press had then brought
out her book, about her mother, Janet Ashbee: Love, Marriage
and the Arts & Crafts Movement. This was the final
visit of three to Syracuse. Until recently, she was running
around London “like a teenager”, as her
late sister Mary commented, taking the steps of her flat
two at a time. Felicity died peacefully on August 26th.
