Helen Albee and Marion Volk – Arts and Crafts Hooked Rugs
of New Hampshire and Maine
The remarkable women who are the subject of this seventy-page, meticulously researched monograph established totally separate and quite different Arts and Crafts rug-making enterprises in the rural countryside of New Hampshire and Maine. Though largely unknown today, Helen Albee and Marion Volk were well known in the Arts and Crafts community around the turn of the last century. Articles about their rugs appeared in House Beautiful, Country Life in America, and Gustav Stickley’s The Craftsman magazine. One of Marion Volk’s rugs won a silver medal at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Examples of their beautiful rugs appear in the collections of the Yale Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other museums, and are shown in several full-color, full-page illustrations in the book.
Author David Cathers is well-known to Arts and Crafts scholars and collectors. He is the author of the seminal Furniture of the American Arts & Crafts Movement – still in print after 45 years (available here on our website); and the author of the definitive biography, Gustav Stickley, published by Phaidon, now sadly out of print.
Softcover, 70 pages