Russell Crook studio hand carved relief tile depicting a Minuteman and titled Concord Bridge. This rare tile measures about 6 inches square and 3/4 inches thick, framed in a custom arts & crafts quartered oak frame (10 3/4" square). It is in great condition with only a small chip to the left inner border (next to the N) and no other chips, cracks, firing flaws, or repairs. Unmarked. An excellent example from an important Arts & Crafts New England studio pottery. Russell Crook worked by himself in Lincoln MA. He was an early member of the Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston and studied with Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and John Henry Twachtman and communicated with Charles Binns. He attended the Arts Students League in NY, and the Pennsylvania Institute of Art. Among his other accomplishments, he designed tiles for Grueby and created the fountain in Center Harbor NH.