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Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875–1900
October 10, 2001–January 6, 2002
The Erving and Joyce Wolf Gallery, 1st floor
Candace Wheeler (1827–1924) was America's first important woman textile and interior designer. Through approximately 105 textiles, wallpapers, paintings, photographs, and objects, this exhibition surveys Wheeler's long life and the highlights of her career. The main focus of the exhibition is the period between 1877, when Wheeler founded the Society of Decorative Art in New York, and 1893, when she served as the interior decorator of the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Her textile designs, many based upon American plants and flowers drawn in sinuously flowing patterns, are central to the exhibition. Also included are paintings, graphics, and furniture by her associates, such as Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, Inc.
Additional support for the catalogue has been provided by the William Cullen Bryant Fellows.
The symposium is supported by the Clara Lloyd-Smith Weber Fund.
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