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The Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement has declared a new exhibition coming in March. “Designing the New: Charles Rennie Waterproof coat and the Glasgow Style” is a touring exhibition organized by Glasgow Museums and the American Federation of Arts.
It is the initial touring U.S. exhibition in a generation for the renowned Scottish architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). Several of the operates experienced not been exhibited in the U.S. ever before. The tour commenced in 2019 in Baltimore, and the exhibition can make its closing U.S. prevent at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement in St. Petersburg, jogging March 11-June 5.
The exhibition characteristics 166 is effective of art and design by and relevant to Waterproof coat and the Glasgow College of Artwork. It characteristics seminal functions by Mackintosh, such as graphic layouts for posters and high-backed chairs for inventive tea rooms, together with lesser-identified will work in textile and inside design and style and the watercolors he painted in the previous years of his everyday living. It highlights his relationship to influential artists, collaborators and his hometown of Glasgow.
![Charles Rennie Mackintosh (designer). High-backed chair for the Ingram Street Tea Rooms, 1900-1901. Stained oak, modern horse-hair upholstery, 59 x 18 5/8 x 17 1/8 inches. Glasgow Museums. Acquired by Glasgow Corporation, as part of the Ingram Street Tearooms, 1950 © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 4499 6577"/%3E "Charles Rennie Mackintosh (designer). High-backed chair for the Ingram Street Tea Rooms, 1900-1901. Stained oak, modern horse-hair upholstery, 59 x 18 5/8 x 17 1/8 inches. Glasgow Museums. Acquired by Glasgow Corporation, as part of the Ingram Street Tearooms, 1950 © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.")
The Glasgow Fashion came from the Arts and Crafts movement to turn out to be the only British response to Art Nouveau in the late 1890s by means of 1900s. The exhibition highlights the Glasgow College of Art’s encouragement of women of all ages designers, furthermore the processes involved in the generation of the furnishings, interiors and functions of art that outline the Glasgow Design. Audiovisual parts improve the objects and convey Glasgow Faculty architecture to everyday living.
A lot of of the artists of the Arts and Crafts motion ended up motivated by Waterproof coat and the Glasgow School’s operates, and linked pieces in the museum’s assortment will be highlighted with academic programming.
“(Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement) is thrilled to have the chance to present the breathtaking and historically considerable get the job done of Charles Rennie Waterproof coat and the Glasgow Faculty, contemporaries of Arts and Crafts artisans in The us,” Rudy Ciccarello, the museum’s president, mentioned in a information launch. “‘Designing the New’ gives an prospect to see MAACM’s everlasting selection in gentle of its intercontinental context, illuminating the lots of connections among the two actions.”
“Designing the New” is curated by Alison Brown, Glasgow Museums’ curator for European Attractive Arts and Design and style from 1800 to the current. Performs incorporated in the exhibition are drawn from Glasgow Museums’ civic collections, The Hunterian, College of Glasgow, The Glasgow Faculty of Artwork, and financial loans from non-public collections.
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Comprehensive programming is planned by way of the exhibition’s run at the museum. A entirely illustrated catalog will be readily available for purchase in the museum store.
For a lot more info, go to museumaacm.org.
