Work (and detail; 1852-1863)

Photo of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones (platinum print) from the Victoria and Albert Museum collections. Photos of Morris and the Watts portrait are available on the Wikimedia Commons page.

Images of Jane (Burden) Morris: by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (see Proserpine, above), by Evelyn de Morgan; several images including photographs.

William Morris, La Belle Iseult or Guinevere--the painting for which Jane Burden posed, and of which he was purported to have said, "I cannot paint you, but I love you."

Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent 1860 designed by Philip Webb for William Morris and Jane Burden. Images of Red House today. See also this recent article in the Guardian Unlimited on Red House: "Garden of Earthly Delights." For readers, here is an article from the Guardian Unlimited that discusses Pugin's influence on the design of Red House: "House Rules" by Jonathan Glancey. A rather interesting 8-minute lecture (QuickTime) on the plans for Red House is available through the V&A. More videos are available through this link.

Three Morris & Co. wallpaper designs: Acanthus Leaf; Chrysanthemum; Willow Bough.

The Green Dining Room, Victoria and Albert Museum (a view of the tile panel and door frame)

Printing and Typography: Morris and the Kelmscott Press

An exhibit from the University of Glasgow, Graphic Design and Visual Culture in Europe 1890-1945: Private Press Books in Special Collections, features images of a number of publications by the press.

The first page of Morris's illumination of the Odes of Horace 1876 (a photo of Michael Palin holding the book itself can be seen here). Morris's illuminated version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1872). Burne-Jones and Morris worked together on both.

William Morris, The Water of The Wondrous Isles 1897.

The British Library's page on the Kelmscott Chaucer (illustrated by Burne-Jones; borders and typograpy designed by Morris). The image I showed is now available from the University of Delaware Library.

Stained Glass: Neil Ralley's Stained Glass Photography pages on Morris contains twelve pages of excellent images of Morris & Co. glass. The Baptism of Christ window by Burne Jones is on page 1.

Japonisme

One of the most important influences on late nineteenth-century art was Japanese woodblock printing, and this page on Viewing Japanese Prints has a large number by a large number of artists--including Hiroshige, whose prints were collected by numerous Western artists, like Monet and Cezanne.

The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute features a long, highly informative article that you may find useful: Visions of People: The Influences of Japanese Prints—Ukiyo-e Upon Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century French Art by Patricia Flynn.

*Mary Cassatt, The Letter (1891) and The Bath (1891-92). (CGFA)

Since the Van Gogh Museum has redesigned its website, the best information on some of the following is more difficult to obtain. Click on "permanent collection" and go from there. I've linked alternative sources where possible.

Vincent Van Gogh, The Bridge in the Rain, 1887. Images are from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Ando Hiroshige, Rainstorm on Ohashi Bridge. c. 1857, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.

The Courtesan, 1887; Cover of Paris Illustré, 1886 featuring Keisei Eisen's original woodcut image. This page from the van Gogh Museum includes the painting and some details, as well as a thumbnail of the original (A page on "Van Gogh's Japonisme" is in Dutch, but all the Japanese prints I showed are included. Another page on Japonisme in Western art can be found at the same site.)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi Picking Cherry Blossoms. c. 1848 (one of the prints in Van Gogh's collection)

Sprig of Flowering Almond in a Glass (Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass). 1888

Flowering Plum Tree after Hiroshige. 1887. Hiroshige's print, Kameido Ume (Japanese apricot) Garden, 1857, also from the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series.

*Claude Monet, La Japonaise, 1876.

L'art Nouveau

Alphonse Mucha (Czechoslovakia)

Greene and Greene (Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene). Visit the Greene & Greene Virtual Archives for information and images. A new discovery: architectural drawings of the Gamble House from the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. The following two houses are good examples of what will come to be called Gesamptkunstwerke in Vienna. The 1985 film, Back to the Future featured exterior shots of the Gamble House, and Interior shots of the Blacker House as sets for Dr. Brown's home.