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Calling Collectors to the Aid of the Marston House Museum
July/August 2018
By Bobbie Bagel
If you are a SOHO member or friend who collects Arts & Crafts furniture, pottery and other decorative arts, and plein air paintings of the period, we have a great opportunity for you! Your special pieces, and perhaps duplicates from your collection, could be displayed to their best advantage in the elegant, carefully curated rooms of the Marston House, San Diego's remarkable Arts & Crafts masterpiece. We invite you to consider long-term loans or donations at this time.
Why now? For many years, SOHO friend and accomplished collectors Dave and Carol Nunley has graciously lent several dozen pieces of Arts & Crafts furniture and decorative arts to authentically furnish the Marston House. Soon they will be moving, taking their entire collection with them. These generous loans include Stickley desks and chairs, a settle, a Roycroft sixteen-pane bookcase, art glass lamps, Van Briggle vases, and paintings by Ernest Browning Smith and Amy Difley Brown, to name a few.
"SOHO is very grateful for Dave and Carol's long-standing support of the Marston House Museum. Year in and year out, he has continually brought in fresh pieces and exchanged out others. said Alana Coons, "they provided a wonderful variety of the very best in Arts & Crafts style and craftsmanship. The Nunleys' efforts have enhanced the reputation of the Marston House and added greatly to the visitors' experience while touring the house."
Now it can be your turn. All of you Stickley and Roycroft enthusiasts, you lovers of art pottery and plein air paintings, please consider offering extended loans for some of your pieces. Share the beautiful, outstanding works you have carefully chosen and admired with the hundreds of guests who tour the house each month.
By reaching out to SOHO's wide-range of supporters like you, we feel confident we will be able to continue to present the Marston House in the style it so richly deserves. Please contact Alana Coons, SOHO's director of education and communications, with any offers you may wish SOHO to consider. You can reach her via email at alana.coons@gmail.com. And please share this information with any Arts & Crafts collectors you know who may wish to contribute to this worthwhile project. Thank you.
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