Stickley is a name synonymous with Arts & Crafts style in America. The five Stickley brothers, Gustav, Albert, Leopold, John George, and Charles were fully engaged in the furniture industry around the turn of the 20th century and had a huge impact on America's statement of style and the "mission" look. But were any one of them style makers? Gustav Stickley claimed that he had established an American style. Albert Stickley contradicted that claim, and Leopold made his own statement during his final years. Here, for the first time, the representative photographs and ideas of all the brothers' work appear together in one volume, to compare and contrast, so that readers can make their own evaluations. They examine each Stickley brother's work and its relation to the quest for an Amerian style, placing particular emphasis on the early years and transitional moments. Dr. Michael E. Clark is an associate professor of fine arts at Elmira College, and Jill Thomas-Clark is the registrar at the Corning Museum of Glass. As a team, they have been researching the Arts & Crafts movement in upstate New York for many years and have specialized in the unrecognized Arts & Crafts firms and local artisans in an effort to indicate their roles and place in the overall Arts & Crafts movement.

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The Stickley Brothers: Quest for an American Voice