Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts & Crafts

Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts & Crafts will for the first time examine the influence of Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) as both an innovative artist and inspiring teacher to students such as Max Weber, Alfred Stieglitz, Ernest Batchelder, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Including photographs, furniture, paintings, ceramics, and prints by Dow and his contemporaries, the varied selection of works reproduced in the catalogue underscores the elegance of pure design based in nature. Included in the catalogue are essays by guest curator Nancy E. Green, chief curator at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, and Jessie Poesch, an expert on Newcomb Pottery and professor emerita at Tulane University. Green focuses on Dow's printmaking and the origins of the American Arts and Crafts aesthetic while Poesch examines Dow's impact on American pottery.