Allen H. Eaton
Allen Eaton | |
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| Born | 1878 Oregon |
| Died | 1962 |
Allen H. Eaton (1881–1970) was an American crafts scholar and a staff member of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.[1]
He studied at the University of Oregon where he joined the faculty in 1915.[2] He was elected to the Oregon State legislature and curated the Oregon Art Room for the 1915 international Panama-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco.[2] He left Oregon for New York City in 1918 and got a position with the American Federation of Arts. His 1919 Buffalo exhibition Arts and Crafts of the Homelands drew almost fifty thousand visitors.[2] After the death of John C. Campbell in 1919 he took his place as field secretary for the Russell Sage Foundation, which resulted in his Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands in 1937.
He was acknowledged as an early collector and admirer of Grandma Moses by her agent Otto Kallir.[3]
Notable works
- Immigrant Gifts to American Life: Contributions of Our Foreign-Born Citizens to American Culture (1932)
- Handicrafts of the Southern highlands: With an Account of the Rural Handicraft Movement in the United States and Suggestions for the Wider Use of Handicrafts in Adult Education and in Recreation (1937)
- Grandma Moses : twenty-five masterpieces of primitive art (1951)
- Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps (1952)
References
- ^ Russell Sage Foundation
- ^ a b c Allen Eaton in the digital collections of Western Carolina University
- ^ * Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1975, page 5
- Allen H. Eaton : dean of American crafts, biography by David B. Van Dommelen, 2004 on archive.org
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