Useful & Beautiful

DELAWARE ART MUSEUM
2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19806, (302) 571-9590 [website] [map]

A Belief in the Power of Beauty: A Selection of Work by May Morris (1862–1938)
28 August 2010–2 January 2011
On Assignment: American Illustration 1850–1950
6 March 2010–20 February 2011
Leonard Baskin: Art from the Gift of Alfred Appel, Jr.
20 September–9 January 2011
also permanent display of the Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art


DELAWARE CENTER FOR THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS
200 South Madison St. Wilmington, DE 19801, (302) 656-6466 [website] [map]

David Mabb: The Morris Kitsch Archive
13 August–5 December 2010
In Canon
13 August 2010–2 January 2011


UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE LIBRARY
181 S College Ave Newark, DE 19717, (302) 831-2965 [website] [map]

London Bound: American Writers in Britain, 1870–1916
Special Collections Gallery, Second floor
24 August–17 December 2010
The Kelmscott Chaucer
Library Information Room exhibit case, First floor
7–8 October 2010
The Multifaceted Mr. Morris
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, Room 115A, First floor
7 October, 5.30–7 p.m.; 8 October, 3–4.30 p.m.
1–30 October 2010by appointment only, call (302) 831-3250


OLD COLLEGE GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
East Main Street & North College Avenue, Newark, DE 19716, (302) 831-8037 [website] [map]

Ethel Reed and American Graphic Design of the 1890s: From the Thomas G. Boss Collection
8 September–5 December 2010


HISTORIC COSTUME & TEXTILES COLLECTION, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
Second and third floors, Alison Hall West, Newark, DE 19716, (302) 831-8714 [website] [map]

Display of women's fashions of the Aesthetic movement, from the University of Delaware's Historic Costume & Textiles Collection, Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies
4 October–17 December 2010