Deconstructing the Highboy with Ellie Richards
When Ellie Richards read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s fictional novel The Water Dancer, she was particularly inspired by this quote: “My father had taken note of the restored highboy. And so it came down from Roscoe that my task would now be the resurrection of...
Prize Celebration and Young Lecturers at 2022 Antiques Forum
For us, as for many of our colleagues, the last pre-pandemic hurrah we remember was Colonial Williamsburg’s Antiques Forum in late February 2020. After participating in a virtual Forum in 2021, we were excited to see “our people” in person again at...
Corporate Elegance: George Nelson’s Visual Vocabulary of Versatility
by Robert Gordon-Fogelson With the generous support of a Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant, I visited Syracuse University’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) to conduct research on the topic of Mid-century corporate design (figure 1)....
Assemblage & Resilience: Techniques of Art Making in the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Collection
by John-Duane Kingsley Within the canon of western art history, the technique of assemblage, or creating art out of disparate quotidian objects to form a collage, manifests in works by Cubist, Futurist, and Dada artists of the early 20h century. These...
Isabella Rosner and Melinda Watt Discuss English Quaker Needlework
On Thursday, February 10, 2022, Isabella Rosner, PhD Candidate in History at King's College in London, shared her research on 17th-century Quaker needlework from public and private collections. Isabella’s research explores the contradictions in a variety...
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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.