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The model for the painting was Sutton’s teaching colleague Tom Taylor. [18] Homage to Frances Hodgkins 1951. [19] When the Christchurch City Council declined to purchase Frances Hodgkins’ Pleasure Garden, [20] Sutton responded with a painting based on Homage to Cezanne (1900) by the French painter Maurice Denis.
In July 1946 the School for American Craftsmen relocated to Alfred University in Alfred, New York. [6] There it was given space in the former Crandall Hall barn. [16] The program was framed as a two-year certificate program, the major crafts offered being metalsmithing, wrought iron, pottery, textiles, and woodworking. [6]
The Fine Arts Department was established on 1 March 1882. It was formerly known as Canterbury College School of Art, and the Ilam School of Fine Arts. [citation needed] In its original rendition the school was modelled on the late Victorian Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, centred in London's National Art Training School in South Kensington.
Though Cranmer Court is one of Christchurch's three last remaining 19th century public school buildings (the other two are the original buildings of Christchurch Boys' High School and Christchurch Girls' High School, which are now both part of the Arts Centre), [3] demolition was carried out during October 2012; [10] demolition was reported as ...
Craft in America's television series began in 2007. [3] It is shown on PBS, [4] and won a Peabody Award in the same year. [5] In 2020, Craft in America was awarded the inaugural Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation for its plan to create a video dictionary of decorative arts tools, techniques, and materials. [6]
Peters Valley School of Crafts (formerly the Peters Valley Craftsmen) is a nonprofit arts organization and craft school within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Layton, New Jersey. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located an hour and a half drive from New York City, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and is part of the NRHP-listed Peters Valley Historic District .
Carol Sauvion (born July 29, 1947) is an American crafts scholar and patron, and the executive Producer and director of the PBS documentary series Craft in America. [1] Sauvion received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History and American Art in 1969 from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. [2]
Cooper was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 8, 1856, into a well-to-do family of English-Irish heritage. [1] He had four older and four younger siblings. His mother, Emily Williams Cooper, whose ancestor emigrated to the U.S. from Weymouth, England, [2] was an amateur painter in watercolors. [3]