Boston Artists and Craftsmen at the Opening of the Twentieth Century

THE Art Workers Guild in London, founded in 1884 as a body of handicraftsmen and designers in the arts, was described by its third Master, Walter Crane, as a "true fellowship of the Arts, men of all crafts meeting on a common ground. None is before or after the other." After my first visit to one of its meetings at 6 Queen Square in Bloomsbury on January io, 1974,1 I noted in my journal that I had "seldom met so many congenial and like-minded people in any single room"; that "I felt that I had found my way into catacombs