Online lecture: “Ernest Gimson, Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect”
Victorian Society in America's Online Lecture Series
Join us this Saturday, April 2nd at 3pm ET for a FREE online lecture on “Ernest Gimson, Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect.” All lectures are free with online registration.
The Victorian Society in America invites you to join us Saturday, April 2nd at 3pm ET for the next lecture in our free online series, "Ernest Gimson, Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect," by author and curator Annette Carruthers.
Described by Pevsner as ‘the greatest of the English artist-craftsmen’, Ernest Gimson (1864–1919) was a central figure in the British Arts & Crafts Movement. Like many of his contemporaries he was very engaged with domestic architecture and built numerous fine houses for which he also designed furniture, metalwork, plaster decoration, and embroideries. This talk will focus on Gimson’s attitude to home, interior planning, furnishings, and the places where he lived, placing him in context with his closest associates, Ernest and Sidney Barnsley, and the wider Arts & Crafts Movement. Annette Carruthers had been a museum curator in Leicestershire and Cheltenham, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of St. Andrews. Her most recent book, Ernest Gimson Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect, written in partnership with Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe, came out in 2019 to commemorate the centenary of Gimson’s death.To register for this lecture, go to https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W_0Y4uyPQwiephRUo1Q9_AFor more information on other lectures in this series, please visit https://victoriansociety.org/lectures-2/** All lectures are recorded and made available for viewing for two weeks following the live presentations.
