Teri Edelstein on Feeding the Art Deco Spirit

Sponsored by The Caxton Club and the Chicago Art Deco Society Feb 7, 6:30pm Central Time A central aspect of the culture and lifestyle of the 1920s and ’30s was the creation and consumption of food. You could exist in an Art Deco world where everything from the soup to the nuts was inflected with […]

Manuscript Monday – History in Your Hands: A Passion for Collecting

Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Presenter: Dr. Stuart Embury                                                           Moderator: Brian Kathenes John Sloan Letter – collection of S. Embury It’s a letter written by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, or perhaps Georgia O’Keeffe.  You’ve read about them or seen their art, but now you reading their words written in their hand. You are holding […]

Frank Ingerson and George Dennison: A Bay Area Love Story in Arts & Crafts (1910-1966)

Sponsored by The Book Club of California The Splendid Disarray of Beauty (2023) tells two intertwined stories, one of love, the other of art. In 1910, the San Franciscans Frank Ingerson and George Dennison became permanently paired in life and love. Known among their friends and in their community as the Boys, they remained in […]