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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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