Past American Arts & Crafts Exhibitions

The Two Red Roses Foundation is committed to sharing its collection with the public through an active series of museum exhibitions. The Foundation is also pleased to lend objects that will enhance and enrich exhibitions mounted by other institutions including those that travel around the country.

January 26, 2018-April 29, 2018

State of Excellence: Treasures from Florida Private Collections

State of Excellence: Treasures from Florida Private Collections is an initiative of the Orlando Museum of Art focused on the depth an quality of collecting in the State of Florida. This important exhibition is drawn from some of the finest collections of European and American art held privately in the state. Highlights include paintings by the 17th century Dutch masters, 19th and 20th century French and American Impressionists and 20th century European and American Modernists and Abstract Expressionists.

Sculpture is represented with exceptional bronzes by August Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle and Käthe Kollwitz. Decorative art includes examples of French Art Nouveau furniture and glass, American Arts and Crafts furniture, American art pottery and early Steuben Glass. A special focus within the exhibition is historic photography. Selected from four extensive collections in the State, the 48 vintage photographs on view offer a mini survey of the medium from its inception in the 1840s through the mid-20th century.

March 5, 2017-August 6 ,2017

Gustave Baumann in California

The Two Red Roses Foundation is pleased to participate in the Pasadena Museum of California Arts exhibition: Gustave Baumann in California. The exhibition brings the California works together with a selection of Baumann’s formative color woodcuts of rural Brown County, Indiana. Click to view the Pasadena Museum of California Arts recent exhibit brochure.

Click here to read a write-up about the exhibit on Bruce Johnson's Arts And Crafts Collector

October 3, 2013-October 23, 2016

Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The Two Red Roses Foundation is pleased to participate in the traveling exhibition: Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University. Three vases from the Foundation's collection are on loan and will be exhibited along with over 180 objects in the largest exhibition of Newcomb Art in more than 30 years.

March 20, 2015-December 31, 2015

Passionate Design: The American Arts & Crafts Movement

The Foundation is pleased to support this important exhibition being held at the historic Henry B. Plant Museum and has lent sixty-nine diverse examples from its collection for display, several of which have never been seen by the public before. This gesture is yet another example of TRRF's commitment to its mission of promoting an understanding of the American Arts and Crafts Movement through education and exhibition. Passionate Design runs from March 2015 to December 2015, and the anniversary issue of the Tampa Review published later this spring.

June 27, 2015-October 18, 2015

The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride

The Bruce Museum presents The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, the sin of arrogance. Join the exhibit which explores the dazzling, dizzying heights of mankind’s hubris and vanity -- as well as the resultant cataclysmic falls -- through objects of art and material culture from the Renaissance into the contemporary period. Humans are not alone in being implicated in the sin of pride; peacocks and lions have also been symbols of the sin. This study of exquisite master prints, drawings, paintings, rare books, and a video installation will demonstrate the breadth and endurance of the imagery of this deadly sin.

October 11, 2014-January 18, 2015

Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art

We are pleased to announce that the Two Red Roses Foundation is participating in the exhibition "Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art" produced by the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY. The exhibit runs from October 11, 2014 to January 18, 2015. The TRRF has loaned a beautiful woodblock by William Seltzer Rice that portrays a stunning and colorful peacock. This exhibition explores our fascination with this most glamorous of birds, a symbol of vainglory and the darling of designers and painters. Strutting in its sapphire-blue and emerald-green feathers, the peacock symbolizes all things vain and beautiful in centuries of painting, sculpture, in books and myth, and on clothes that swirl and shine like the iridescent bird itself. Intrigued by the exotic art of Asia that prized and portrayed the peacock, Western artists and craftsmen chose the peacock as a multi-faceted motif for designs on canvas and for objets d'art in the home.

June 14, 2013-August 24, 2013

Floating World: The Influence of Japanese Printmaking

The Two Red Roses Foundation has agreed to lend a selection of prints from its woodblock collection to The Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Sun Valley, Idaho. The exhibition, mounted by Ms. Courtney Gilbert, Ph.D. and Curator of Visual Arts, examines the influence of Japanese woodcut printmaking in the late 19th and early 20th century on European and American artists as well as a number of contemporary artists. For a view of the entire brochure click here. The woodcuts chosen are from important artists of the American Arts and Crafts period including Arthur Wesley Dow, Margaret Jordan Patterson, Frances Gearhart, Elizabeth Gardiner, Edna Boies Hopkins, and Elizabeth Colborne.

September 15, 2010-January 15, 2011

Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement

To see additional information on this exhibit click here.

October 6, 2009-January 3, 2010

A Spirit of Simplicity: American Arts and Crafts from The Two Red Roses Foundation

PALM BEACH, FL - The Flagler Museum's forthcoming exhibition, A Spirit of Simplicity: American Arts and Crafts from the Two Red Roses Foundation, will feature nearly 150 objects illustrating the range of American Arts and Crafts style, including furniture, wood block prints, stained glass, decorative tiles, pottery, and metalwork. A Spirit of Simplicity will be on view from October 6, 2009, through January 3, 2010. The exhibition is free with Flagler Museum admission.

February 24, 2009-September 13, 2009

American Art Pottery at the Harn Museum

The University of Florida's Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida presents "Uncommon Glazes: American Pottery, 1880-1950" showcasing forty-five pieces of ceramic pottery from the leading potters of the period. Works by pioneers Rookwood, Roseville, Grueby, and Newcomb are on display. Dulce Roman, Curator of Modern Art for the museum curates the exhibits. The Two Red Roses Foundation is pleased to participate in this important exhibition.

April 24, 2009-April 26, 2009

American Art Pottery Association 2009 Convention

The Two Red Roses Foundation will lend to the AAPA Pottery Exhibition 15 vases and a number of tiles from its collection.

October 4, 2008-April 26, 2009

Beauty in Common Things at the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts

The St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida: "Beauty in Common Things; American Arts & Crafts Pottery from the Two Red Roses Foundation" which emphasizes exeptional American ceramics. The exhibit, which will take place in the new museum wing, is co-curated by Martin Eidelberg, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, and independent scholar Jonathan Clancy.

November 2, 2008-January 4, 2009