"All-Over Design": Lockwood de Forest between Ahmedabad and Bryn Mawr

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This exhibition builds on the knowledge of generations of scholars. It is indebted to Roberta A. Mayer and Abigail McGowan for their work on Lockwood de Forest; Ruth Levy Merriam, Constance A. Jones, and Carol Campbell for their careful keeping of college history; Barbara Ward Grubb, Emily Moore, Rachel Starry, Joelle Collins, Nancy Halli, and Melissa Torquato for their archival research on the Deanery and campus architecture; and the Facilities and Collections staff charged with the care and preservation of this furniture for over a century.
 

For more information about Bryn Mawr College's History:

Bryn Mawr History Projects features a detailed list of student projects, publications and exhibitions that focus on campus history.

Who Built Bryn Mawr (Ongoing exhibition, 2021—)

Presidential Portraits Collection at Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections, 2017).

Offerings to Athena: 125 years at Bryn Mawr College, edited by Anne L. Bruder (Bryn Mawr, PA: Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library, 2010).

"The Very Best Woman's College There is": M. Carey Thomas and the Making of the Bryn Mawr Campus (Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections. September 21 - December 20, 2001)

Ruth Levy Merriam, A History of the Deanery, Bryn Mawr College, (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Bryn Mawr College, 1965)

Learn more about the Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company, Lockwood de Forest, and the history of Indian design in America:

Anupama Arora and Rajender Kaur, eds., India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s, The New Urban Atlantic (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017).

Mitraja Bais et al., Sahaj: Vernacular Furniture of Gujarat: As Part of the Vernacular Furniture of North-West India Project: Phase I (Ahmedabad: CEPT University Press, 2018).

Nina Blomfield and Katie Loney, “‘India in America’: A Curatorial Conversation on the Work and Practice of Lockwood de Forest and The Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company,” Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture 9, no. 1 (February 20, 2021): 30–43, https://doi.org/10.5195/contemp/2021.314.

Doreen Bolger Burke et al., In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986).

Julius Bryant and Susan Weber, John Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London (New York: Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 2017).

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estate (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006).

Kristin L. Hoganson, Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women’s Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s, 2nd ed. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993);

––––, The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas (New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1994); 

Lance Humphries and Roberta A. Mayer, “Gilding an Antebellum Baltimore Townhouse: The Lost Mansion of John Work Garrett and Mary Elizabeth Garrett,” Nineteenth Century 39, no. 1 (Spring 2019), 14-23.

Amin Jaffer and Karina Corrigan, Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 2001).

Brinda Kumar, “Of Networks and Narratives: Collecting Indian Art in America, 1907–1972” (Ph.D. diss, Cornell University, 2015).

Anne Suydam Lewis, Lockwood de Forest: Painter, Importer, Decorator (Huntington: Heckscher Museum, 1976).

Saloni Mathur, India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).

*Roberta A. Mayer, Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for India (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008).

*Abigail McGowan, Crafting the Nation in Colonial India, 1st ed. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Kathleen Waters Sander, Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

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