Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875-1900, 2001, Fine HC

Peck, Amelia, and Carol Irish, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. Fine 4to, 8 ½” x 11 ½”, 276 pp.

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Fine quarto, navy blue cloth over boards, gilt to spine. Fine dust jacket with a green and red floral pattern titled “Water-lily Textile”, black and white lettering to front cover and spine, protected in Mylar, 276 pp. Reproductions of engravings, textile designs, prints, and photographs in full-color and black-and-white, 100 of which Wheeler and associates designed. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from October 10^th, 2001 through January 6^th, 2002. Explores the life and accomplishments of this central figure in the Arts & Crafts movement, founder of the Society of Decorative Art in New York, and designer of the Women’s Building at the 1893 World’s Colombian Exposition in Chicago. A carefully constructed study of a central figure in the Arts & Crafts Movement of the late 19th century.