Through March 3, 2024 – Garden of Hearts: Madeline Yale Wynne and Deerfield’s Arts and Crafts Movement
In 1903, Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918), a leader in the American Arts and Crafts movement, constructed an oak bride’s chest ornamented with hammered copper panels, wrought iron hinges, and semi-precious stones. Known as the Garden of Hearts for its carved and painted scene of three inverted heart-shaped trees standing alongside a winding river, the chest is a tour-de-force of Arts and Crafts design—which favored handcraftsmanship over mechanized production—and showcases Wynne’s many talents as a painter, metalsmith, and woodworker. Historic Deerfield will highlight her work in an exhibition at the Flynt Center of Early New England Life now through March 3, 2024. For more information visit https://www.historic-deerfield.org/events/
