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The William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, England, is a public museum devoted to Morris's life, work and influence. [299] [300] [301] The William Morris Society is based at Morris's final London home, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, and is an international members society, museum and venue for lectures and other Morris-related events. [302]
William Morris died on October 3, 1896, but the Morris & Co. continued to design and produce textiles he had designed or planned, under the supervision of his chief assistant and Art Director John Henry Dearle. Dearle managed the company's textile works at Merton Abbey until his own death in 1932.
The Kelmscott Press, founded by William Morris and Emery Walker, published 53 books in 66 volumes [1] between 1891 and 1898. Each book was designed and ornamented by Morris and printed by hand in limited editions of around 300.
Morris's friend Walter Crane wrote, "...Mr. William Morris has shown what beauty and character in pattern, and good and delicate choice of tint can do for us, giving in short a new impulse to design, a great amount of ingenuity and enterprise has been spent on wallpapers in England, and in the better minds a very distinct advance has been made ...
The series was executed by a team of Pre-Raphaelite artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. The paintings depict scenes from Arthurian myth . The murals were commissioned by John Ruskin and the subject was probably chosen as a result of earlier Pre-Raphaelite interest in Arthurian themes, such as the ...
William Morris' design for Trellis wallpaper, 1862. The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America.
Kelmscott House is Grade II* listed [1] Georgian brick mansion at 26 Upper Mall in Hammersmith, overlooking the River Thames.Built in about 1785, it was the London home of English textile designer, artist, writer and socialist William Morris from 1878 to 1896.
This was the occasion of Morris’s first major unscripted speech. About 400 persons were present – 100 or so friends of Morris and Faulkner, 250 neutrals, and 30 avowed anti-socialists. The latter kicked up a storm, howling down Morris’s words and then letting off a stink bomb. Scuffles broke out and Faulkner suspended the meeting. [8]