For more than a century, she has been little more than a footnote in William Morris’s story, her work mistaken for his, her contribution to British decorative art largely overlooked. Yet, in her lifet...
10.18.2026 theguardian.com , yahoo.com
William Morris, designer of such pretty curtains and wallpaper , was also a revolutionary Marxist. At the end of 1884, aged 50, he set up the Socialist League, with Karl Marx’s daughter Eleanor Marx. ...
10.19.2026 Aol.com
Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Poetry arrives at Newcastle’s Laing Art Gallery from 17th October-13th February, bringing together more than 100 paintings, drawings, photographs, decorative objects and rare ...
10.16.2026 Narcmagazine.com
Frieze feels rather like Disneyland for art-world fanatics: the excitement, the rollercoaster of emotions, and the palpable stress in the room as dealers, having paid six-figure sums to be under this ...
10.15.2026 Artlyst.com
In myriad exhibitions, books and documentaries in recent years devoted to the English designer William Morris (1834-96) and the contemporaneous Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, one major collection and resource has been almost overlooked—the thousands of drawings, paintings, designs, letters, books and other objects in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, acquired by Sydney Cockerell, who became the friend and private secretary of William Morris. Cockerell brought his collection with him when he beca...
10.19.2026 Theartnewspaper.com