An American Craftsman - Warton Esherick

The film explores the life and work of Wharton Esherick (1887-1970) a painter and furniture maker who came of age during the Industrial Revolution. At a time when America was enamored with consumerism and mass industry, Wharton moved to a rural farm outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began making sculptural wood furniture one piece at a time. The Wharton Esherick Museum provided Coal with unparalleled access to its archives. The resulting forty-one-minute documentary, three years in the making, brings together hundreds of photographs with pre-recorded oral histories and interviews with contemporary woodworkers, historians, members of the Esherick Museum staff, Esherick family members, and patrons.

Categories: Documentary , Unscripted

Director: Carolyn Coal

Starring: Manfield Bascom, James Rawitsch, Elisabeth Argo, Jasper Britton, Mark Sfirri, Paul Eisenhauer, Robert Aibel, Geoffrey Berwind, Alice Seiver, Penny Reed, William Whitaker, Paul Savidge and Dan Macey, Jim and Dena Dannenberg, Adam Gunderson