FLWHEP Annual Lecture: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010
Location: Missouri History Museum -- Lee Auditorium
Time: 7 p.m.
Free and open to the public. FLWHEP members receive priority seating.
 
Join noted author and writer Bruce Smith for a lecture titled “The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene.” Smith, living in Seattle, is a renowned scholar on the life and work of Charles and Henry Greene, masters of American Arts and Crafts architecture. He will discuss the exquisitely crafted residences and careers of the Greene brothers, including their connections to St. Louis and a comparison of their works to those of Frank Lloyd Wright.
 
Smith’s publications include Greene & Greene Masterworks (1998), a New York Times Editor’s Choice architectural book. He also recently finished Greene & Greene and the Duncan-Irwin House: Developing a California Style (upcoming from Publisher Gibbs Smith), about the early work of the Greene brothers leading up to their 1906 Duncan-Irwin house, the first full expression of their mature style. He also authored two essays for A “New and Native” Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene (October 2008), the book accompanying the major exhibition on the decorative arts of Greene & Greene. He is currently working on a book-length study of Japanese influence on the Arts and Crafts movement in America.
 
A book signing will follow the lecture. For further information,
please e-mail info@ebsworthpark.org.
Presented with support from the Regional Arts Commission.  
 
The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park
   House Address: 120 North Ballas Road — Kirkwood, Missouri 63122
   Mailing Address: 40 Upper Ladue Road — St. Louis, Missouri 63124
314-822-8359 — info@ebsworthpark.org