The Splendid Disarray of Beauty
The Boys, the Tiles, the Joy of Cathedral Oaks—a Study in Arts and Crafts Community
- 2023 INDIES Winner
- Silver, LGBTQ+ (Adult Nonfiction)
- 2023 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Art (Adult Nonfiction)
"The Splendid Disarray of Beauty" retrieves from obscurity the story of the California artists Frank Ingerson and George Dennison. In August 1910, they began fifty-five years of love and life together by launching, as their honeymoon project, a freestanding summer art school. Tucked away in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, the Cathedral Oaks school was bohemian in lifestyle but rigorously followed the teachings of the dean of American Arts and Crafts design, Arthur Wesley Dow.
