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From around 1910, the couple made annual summer visits to the Monterey Peninsula, where they maintained a house
and studio. The relaxed social atmosphere and inspiring landscape resulted in numerous paintings that exploited the
aesthetic possibilities of the seacoast. The distinctive light and color indigenous to the region brought forth more
intensity of color to Mathews’ low-toned palette, and the many paintings he made of stands of cypress trees along the
Monterey coast remain today among his most popular tonalist paintings.

The Oakland Museum of California is home to an incomparable collection of works by both Arthur and Lucia Mathews.
This set includes twenty assorted 5 x 7" blank notecards (5 each of 4 styles) with white envelopes in a decorative box.

William Seltzer Rice (1873–1963) was born in Pennsylvania
but moved to Northern California in 1900, when the region’s
Arts & Crafts movement was flowering. A talented and
prolific watercolorist, Rice taught at various schools in the
San Francisco Bay Area, including the California College of
Arts & Crafts in Oakland—a center for the movement. He
became devoted to block printing because compared with
original watercolors, prints better suited the Arts & Crafts
ethos of making artwork available to a wide audience at
modest cost. Unlike many printmakers, Rice designed,
carved, and printed the blocks all himself. The landscapes of
Northern California—from the Sierra Nevada to the Pacific—
proved excellent raw materials for his creativity, and his
prints today can be found in public and private collections
worldwide.

This set includes twenty assorted full-color 5 x 7" blank note
cards (five each of four styles) with envelopes and
decorative box.

Born at the height of the Industrial Revolution, William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (American, 1883–1966) went on to become one of the most
influential designers in America's Arts and Crafts movement—a discipline dedicated to shunning mass production in favor of simple and
elegant handicrafts. At age twenty-one, Hunter talked his way into a summer job at the famed Roycroft art colony in East Aurora, New
York. He remained at Roycroft for several years, thriving under the influence of founder Elbert Hubbard and the many notable artists and
craftspeople who either lived there or visited. This collection of notecards features four adaptations of designs Dard Hunter created to
add simple elegance to books.

Card assortment featuring four
adaptations of designs by Dard Hunter
(1883–1966). Hunter was one of the
most influential designers in America’s
Arts and Crafts movement, which
shunned mass production in favor of
simple and elegant handicrafts.

This set includes twenty assorted 5 x 7"
holiday cards (5 each of 4 designs) plus
envelopes in a decorative box. Printed
on recycled paper.

Ceramics played a large part in the early-
twentieth-century American Arts and Crafts
movement. The Midwest, home to Pewabic
Pottery, Rookwood, Shawnee, Flint
Faience, and many other studios, was a
major center for art pottery. With its studio
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Motawi Tileworks
upholds the rich Midwestern tradition of
creative, elegant work in clay. Motawi
artisans produce fresh and innovative tile
designs that preserve the distinctive
aesthetic flavor of Arts and Crafts, with
deceptively simple lines and a rich palette
of “organic” colors. Four of Motawi’s
classic works are featured here.

This set includes twenty 5 x 7" blank note
cards (5 each of 4 styles) with envelopes
and decorative box.

Inside message: Season's
Greetings.

Includes cards: Silver Silence,
Big Trees in Snow, Sierra Winter,
and Cedar in Snow.

This set includes twenty
assorted 5 x 7" holiday cards (5
each of 4 designs) plus
envelopes in a decorative box.
Printed on recycled paper.

Contains five each of the following notecards:
Adaptation of “Tree of Life” art glass window, Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York, 1903.
Adaptation of art glass window, entrance door, Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, Illinois, 1908.
Adaptation of sample art glass “Sumac” window, Susan Lawrence Dana House, Springfield, Illinois, 1902.
Adaptation of art glass window, William R. Heath House, Buffalo, New York, 1903.

This set includes twenty assorted full-color 5 x 7" blank notecards (5 each of 4 styles) with envelopes and decorative box.

$14.95 per set

Contains five each of the following notecards:
Adaptation of cover design for The Book of The Roycrofters, 1907
Adaptation of cover of The Roycrofters Motto Book, 1908
Adaptation of design for Green's Cigar Book
Adaptation of title page of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1908

This set includes twenty assorted 5 x 7" blank
notecards (5 each of 4 styles) with envelopes in
a decorative box.

Though he might have made a bigger
name for himself in some
international art capital, Arthur F.
Mathews (American, 1860–1945)
steadfastly rejected the idea of
leaving California. He once remarked
that he would rather live and work in
San Francisco than wear medals in
Paris—and he had done both. A
lifelong artist, influential teacher,
and tireless civic-arts advocate,
Mathews and his wife, artist Lucia K.
Mathews, developed the California
Decorative Style--a signature fusion
of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Art
Nouveau and Arts and Crafts styles.

Arts And Crafts Style Note Cards and Postcards

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Frank Lloyd Wright (American,
1867–1959) loved to work in
glass. He regarded it as “the
materialization of light, the
weightless medium of sight,”
and used it in innovative ways,
providing a glinting
counterpoint to the solid mass
of traditional building materials.
Over the course of a long
career, Wright expanded his use
of glass, diminishing the visual
barrier between inside and
outside and creating dazzling
effects of light within his
houses. This set of notecards
presents four designs adapted
from Frank Lloyd Wright’s work
in art glass. These geometric
patterns represent some of his
most spectacular ornamental
achievements.

Originating in late-nineteenth-century Britain in reaction to the industrial
revolution and mass production, the Arts and Crafts movement soon
spread to the United States, engendering a renaissance of the applied
and decorative arts. Drawing inspiration from nature and from the
materials with which they worked, American artisans set out to produce
objects of utility and beauty at prices affordable to the masses. The
ceramics industry was at the forefront of this movement; potteries across
the country created distinctive wares that today are prized by collectors.
The Midwest in particular, with the Pewabic, Rookwood, Shawnee, and
many other studios, was a major center for art pottery.

Today Motawi Tileworks, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, upholds this rich
mid western tradition of creative work in clay. Inspired by the glazes and
designs of the Arts and Crafts era, Motawi produces fresh, innovative tile
designs with elegant lines and a rich palette of “organic” hues.
Considered the finest contemporary examples of authentic Arts and
Crafts tiles, Motawi tiles are individually crafted and hand-glazed. This
process gives each tile its own unique character and ensures the rich
color depth that is a signature of Motawi tile.

Thirty full-color reproductions. Book size: 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.

$8.95 per set

Twenty assorted postcards featuring Wright's Liberty magazine cover designs.
Designs include: Bird in the Cage (Scherzo); September (Desert Triangles);
Jewelry Shop Window; Frozen Spheres; Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers
(adapted, 1955); March Balloons; May Basket; Old Fashioned Window; July
Fourth (adapted, 1955); and December Gifts.

Twenty full-color 4 1/4 x 6" postcards (2 each of 10 designs) in a decorative
box.

$8.95 per set