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The Ceramics of William H. Grueby: The Spirit of New Idea in Artistic Handicraft

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I just found this information in a newsletter and thought I'd pass it on: The Lackawanna Station Hotel (currently the Radisson, formerly the Lackawanna Train Station) in Scranton,Pennsylvania has thirty-six Grueby Faience tile panels. The Grueby murals, which portray scenes along the railroad's lines, including New Jersey landscapes and railway stations, formed a frieze around the rail station's waiting room, now a restaurant. Susan J. Montgomery is an independent decorative arts scholar, specializing in the New England tile makers and potters of the Arts & Crafts movement. She holds a B.A. in art history from Smith College and a Ph.D. in American & New England Studies from Boston University. As a free-lance curator and researcher, she has contributed to exhibitions at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy; the Davis Museum and Cultural Center; Wellesley College; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; and the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art at St. Petersburg College. Since 2005, she has been a consulting curator to the Two Red Roses Foundation in Florida and has written a catalogue of the foundation's Arts & Crafts tile collection. She is the author of numerous articles on pottery and tiles and published The Ceramics of William H. Grueby: The Spirit of the New Idea in Artistic Handicraft in 1993.