A "New and Native" Beauty:
The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery
Washington, D.C.
March 13 – June 7, 2009
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
July 14 – October 18, 2009
The most comprehensive exhibition ever undertaken on the work of Arts and Crafts architecture and design legends Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene debuts at The Huntington before traveling to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The exhibition comprises some 130 works drawn from The Huntington’s collections as well as those of the Gamble House and more than 30 private and institutional lenders and includes furniture, decorative arts, architectural drawings, photographs, watercolors, and related materials—some of which have never been on public display.
“A ‘New and Native’ Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene” has been organized by The Gamble House, University of Southern California and The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, California, in cooperation with the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The exhibition tour is managed by Curatorial Assistance, Inc., Pasadena, California.
Above:
David B. Gamble house, Pasadena, 1907–1909
(Photograph © Alexander Vertikoff).
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Lantern, 1910, James A. Culbertson house, Pasadena, 1902–1914. (Courtesy of Guardian Stewardship. Photograph courtesy of Sotheby’s, New York).
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