Haudenosaunee Craft at the Rochester Municipal Museum: A Paradoxical New Deal Project
by Julia Silverman Beginning in 1935, approximately 100 Haudenosaunee artists were hired by the Rochester Municipal Museum (now called the Rochester Museum & Science Center) to manufacture a new ethnographic collection. Led by Arthur C. Parker, the...
The Concord Museum Awarded Prize for Excellence and Innovation
The Decorative Arts Trust is thrilled to announce that the 2023 Prize for Excellence and Innovation was awarded to the Concord Museum in Concord, MA, for their exhibitions and publication commemorating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution in...
Four Centuries of Blue & White: The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain
by Becky MacGuire The extraordinary Frelinghuysen collection, assembled carefully over 50 years, features an exceptionally wide array of Asian blue and white export porcelain—that most ubiquitous and influential of all ceramics. First made in the heart...
Becca Lo Presti and Taylor Rossini Lecture at Winterthur’s DE Antiques Show
As the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library’s Delaware Antiques Show celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2023, the Decorative Arts Trust is proud to once again sponsor two young scholar lectures. At 3:00 pm on Saturday, November 11, Becca Lo Presti and...
Neoclassical Motifs: George Clarke’s Alabaster Portico Clock at Hyde Hall
by Katherine Novko Research grant funding from the Decorative Arts Trust enabled me to spend one week with the Clarke Family Papers, part of the Cornell University Library’s Rare and Manuscript Collection. My study of domestic materials with...
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Formerly known as the "blog,” the Bulletin features new research and scholarship, travelogues, book reviews, and museum and gallery exhibitions. The Bulletin complements The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust, our biannual members publication.