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The six original tapestries illustrate the story of the Grail quest as told in Sir Thomas Malory's 1485 book Le Morte d'Arthur.Like other Morris & Co. tapestries, the Holy Grail sequence was a group effort, with overall composition and figures designed by Edward Burne-Jones, heraldry by William Morris, and foreground florals and backgrounds by John Henry Dearle.
[3] [2] He designed the windows for Temple Emanu-El and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. He created over two dozen tapestries, [5] some of which are in the de Young Museum and the San Francisco International Airport. [2] He was commissioned to create a 30-foot tapestry for the headquarters of Weyerhaeuser. [3] In 1963, he won the Rome Prize.
European Tapestry in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, New York : Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-3262-8. Bennett, Anna Gray (1992). Five Centuries of Tapestry : The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. ISBN 0-8118-0213-2. Cavallo, Adolph (1967).
The most famous tapestries made by Burne-Jones and Morris were Holy Grail tapestries made for William Knox D'Arcy in 1890 for his dining room at Stanmore Hall [10] Additional versions of the tapestries with minor variations were woven on commission by Morris & Co. over the next decade.
In 1900 the price of a Baumgarten tapestry ranged from US$500 to $1,000 (equivalent to $18,312 and $36,624 in 2023). [6] [7] In comparison, at that time the average yearly wage in the United States was $438 and a school teacher earned $328. The firm's founder, William Baugarten, died at his home in Washington, D.C., on April 26, 1906. [8]
The California Society of Etchers (CSE) was founded in San Francisco in December 1912 and announced in the San Francisco Chronicle on January 19, 1913 ("Etchers Form a State Organization", p. 27). Several sources cite an earlier 1911 date, such Marilyn S. Kushner's detailed chapter, "Genesis of the Twentieth-Century Print Club", although she ...