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William Morris : Design and Philosophy on Display at Yale MuseumWilliam Morris, the father of the English Arts and Crafts movement that spurned 19th-century manufacturing techniques and favored quality handmade objects, is the subject of a new exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art.
The exhibit features a stained glass window that has not been displayed whole since it was removed from a defunct English church in the 1960s.
Morris is best known for a philosophy that advised people: "Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
He was inspired by medieval art to create stained glass windows, embroidered decorative objects, rugs, wallpaper, tiles, fabrics and books, all with the instantly recognizable Morris style of intertwining foliage and deep colors.
Morris' idealistic philosophy also inspired him in later years to promote socialism as a cure for 19th-century England's ills. He wrote many socialist tracts, as well as poetry and other works.
"He just did an amazing number of things," said Diane Waggoner, who curated the exhibit when she was with the Huntington Library in California, with additions by Yale's Elisabeth Fairman.
Visitors to the exhibit get a feel for the detailed and sometimes monumental work that Morris and his collaborators did by viewing a 22-foot-tall stained glass window that has been installed in th
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