Wisconsin Designer Craftsmen records

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Wisconsin Designer Craftsmen records

1937-1973

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw96c881684-034d-4d86-943c-ec97e9f6282a

Organizational records including those of the Wisconsin Artists Federation and the Society of Applied Arts, the two predecessors of the Wisconsin Designer Craftsmen. Records contain correspondence; constitutions; minutes of regular meetings and of council and committee meetings; financial records; membership lists; biographical data sheets on members; exhibitors' lists; lists of awards; bulletins; newsletters; a scrapbook; five calendars which include the work of Wisconsin craftsmen; and some material on related organizations such as the American Crafts Council and Midwest Designer-Craftsmen.

Archives of American Art

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6781009

Archives of American Art

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

Wisconsin Society of Applied Arts.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65j464p (corporateBody)

Midwest Designer-Craftsmen.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6811sjq (corporateBody)

Wisconsin Artists Federation.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60p7pq2 (corporateBody)

Wisconsin Designer-Craftsmen.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6743fnd (corporateBody)

Arts and crafts society; Milwaukee, Wisc. Founded as the Wisconsin Society of Applied Arts (1916-1936) then becoming the Wisconsin Artists Federation (1936). Its purpose is "to promote fellowship among the workers, and to raise the standards of beauty in objects of common use, to bring designer and worker into mutual relationship ..." From the description of Wisconsin Designer Craftsmen records, 1937-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122576833 ...

American Craftsmen's Council

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w41sgf (corporateBody)

Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69c735j (person)

English critic and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (24) : London, etc., to W.E. Henley, 1876-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580328 From the description of English thought in the eighteenth century : autograph manuscript, [187-]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580765 Stephen was a British critic, man of letters and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. From the description of Photograph album of Le...

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qg9gvk (person)

Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...

Warr, George, 1951-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t2rwg (person)

Professor of literature; Kensington, England. From the description of George Warr letter, 1897 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122593961 ...