Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum – formerly The Smith Institute – has played a very special part in the history of Stirling since its foundation in 1874. Established by the bequest of artist Thomas Stuart Smith (1815–1869) on land supplied by the Burgh of Stirling, it is an historic public-private partnership which has continued to the present day. It was founded as a gallery of mainly contemporary art, with museum and library reading room ‘for the benefit of the inhabitants of Stirling, Dunblane and Kinbuck’.
Gustav Stickley
In recent decades, Stickley and his work have become popularly recognized once again. It is particularly his early furniture, produced between 1901 and 1904 that is considered rare and extremely collectible. In 1988, Barbra Streisand paid $363,000 for a Stickley sideboard from the Gustav Stickley House in Syracuse; magazines such as "Style 1900" (out of print as of January 2013) and "American Bungalow" cater to those interested in the Arts and Crafts movement. A major touring exhibition organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, "Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement", opened at the Newark Museum on September 15, 2010. The exhibition then opened at the Dallas Museum of Art on February 18, 2011 and remained on view until May 8, 2011 before opening at the San Diego Museum of Art on June 18, 2011, subsequently closing on September 11, 2011.