The American Arts and Crafts Movement

This title in Lucent?s Eye on Art series looks at the ever popular Arts and Crafts movement that developed in the mid-19th century and encompassed simple, beautiful, and functional buildings, furniture, and decorative objects, such as ceramics, lighting, stained glass, woodwork, and metal work. All were finely crafted by talented architects and craftspeople such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Gustav Stickley, Charles and Henry Greene, Ernest Batchelder, Dirk Van Erp, Mary Chase Perry, and Louis Tiffany, among many others. The movement celebrated fine craftsmanship and the relationship between artists, their craft, and the environment.