Wilson also suggests that use of the term “‘Mission’ was an attempt to distinguish the American Arts & Crafts from English and European sources. Mission styled furniture, ironware, pottery and buildings became commonplace in the 1890s and 1900s throughout the United States as the Arts & Crafts took hold. The word also implied reform and fit in with the intent that product design and production along with much more political issues were part of the Arts & Crafts mission.”

Richard Guy Wilson holds the Commonwealth Professor’s Chair in Architectural History at the University of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson’s University) in Charlottesville, Virginia. His specialty is the architecture, design and art of the 18th to the 20th century both in America and abroad. He was a visiting fellow at Cambridge University, England during the Winter-Spring 2007.  He received his undergraduate training at the University of Colorado and MA and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.

Wilson has received a number of academic honors, among them a Guggenheim fellow, prizes for distinguished writing, and in 1986 he was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He received the outstanding professor award at the University of Virginia in 2001. He has directed the Victorian Society’s Nineteenth Century Summer School since 1979. He has served as an advisor and commentator for a number of television programs on PBS and A&E, most significantly over sixty-five segments of America’s Castles.

A frequent lecturer for universities, museums and professional groups, he has also published widely with many articles and reviews to his credit. Wilson has been the curator and author for major museum exhibitions such as The American Renaissance, 1876-1917; The Art that is Life:  The Arts and Crafts Movement in America; The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941 and The Making of Virginia Architecture.

He is the author or joint author of 16 books that deal with American and modern architecture which include studies of McKim, Mead & White, Thomas Jefferson’s design of the University of Virginia, Monument Ave in Richmond, the AIA Gold Medal, a contribution to the recent book on RM Schindler (2001), and principle author and editor of the Society of Architectural Historians book, Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont (2002). His The Colonial Revival House was published in the fall of 2004 and Harbor Hill: Portrait of House was published in 2008.  Following the lecture Wilson will sign copies of this most recent book, which  explores Harbor Hill, a lavish mansion designed by Stanford White and built in the early 1900s on Long Island.

For tickets or to receive further information, please contact the museum at 973-540-0311 or education@stickleymuseum.org

To download the registration form, please click here.

Amy Stahl Lecture and Book Signing:
by Richard Guy Wilson
Sat., Nov. 14 at 4:00
$10 Members
$12 Non Members
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What is Mission? Are you curious about this term in architecture and design?

The Als Ik Kan Award is the highest honor given by the Craftsman Farms Foundation and is presented to individuals who contribute in an exceptional manner to The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms and/or to the advancement of the American Arts and Crafts movement.  At the June 2008 Board meeting of the Craftsman Farms Foundation, Dr Donald Stahl was nominated and unanimously approved as the 2008 Als Ik Kan honoree. Don has contributed his much of his time, his significant talent, and generous resources to the Foundation for the past 15 years.

Time is the most precious gift any of us can give.  I am not sure how many hours Don has spent as a docent giving tours, but I do know that visitors who have experienced Don’s tours have said that he is one of the most informed and interesting docents they have ever had.  As a Board member for ten years, he served as Chairman of the Landscape Committee and spent countless hours coordinating and working along side volunteers on property work days.  He also served as Chairman of the Personnel and Nominating Committee, which took a lot of time to ensure that any vacancies were filled by the best candidates in a timely manner.

Known for his craftsmanship in oak, Don has shared his talents by donating reproductions he has made a number of fine Gustav Stickley designed pieces of furniture which were auctioned off at our annual fund-raising gala.  He also contributed a number of beautiful pieces that are now in use in the administrative building, has built Arts and Crafts picture frames for numerous volunteer awards, and for the beautiful mural that hangs in the Parsippany Public Library.

Don has made a number of significant financial contributions to the Annual Trustee campaign for 10 years, and has sponsored a foursome, as well as a journal advertisement every year for the Craftsman Classic golf outing.  While these contributions are significant, the Amy Stahl Memorial Endowment, that Don established in memory of his dear wife, is exceptional.  It was the first named endowment in the Foundations history and helped us begin to focus our mission on education.  The Annual Amy Stahl Memorial Lecture series will be inaugurated on November 8.

Truly Dr Donald Stahl is a worthy recipient of this year’s Als Ik Kan Award.

Congratulations, Dr. Stahl!

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Don Stahl to Receive This Year’s Als Ik Kan Award

Joseph Cunningham, Ph.D will be the first speaker in this series. He will speak on the topic, “Was Gustav Stickley a Modernist?: New Perspectives on Early Masterworks.” Stickley is widely heralded to be among the most important proponents of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America, but, as Dr. Cunningham will discuss in his lecture, it is now possible to take a wider perspective on his exceptional contribution to the development of Modernism. More than a mere advocate of British design reform theory or exponent of good design and honest craftsmanship, Dr. Cunningham proposes, Stickley, his Craftsman Magazine and the United Crafts’ enterprise can be considered as important modernizing forces in American design, beginning around 1900.

The Curator of the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, Dr. Cunningham is currently at work on the exhibition The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, which will open at the Milwaukee Art Museum in June 2009 and travel to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Huntington Art Galleries and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A book signing of Dr. Cunningham’s book The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs will follow the lecture. The American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation is collaborating with the Dallas Museum of Art on their forthcoming Gustav Stickley exhibition and book, to which Dr. Cunningham will contribute an essay on Irene Sargent and the Ideological foundations of the United Crafts and Craftsman enterprises.

Set for Saturday, November 8 at 4:00 p.m., a book signing will follow the lecture. Light refreshments will be served. Tickets are $5 Members and $10 for Non Members. Purchasing tickets in advance is strongly encouraged.

Saturday, November 8 at 4 p.m.

$5 for Members and $10 For Non Members

For tickets, call 973-540-0311.

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Amy Stahl Memorial Lecture and Book Signing