by The Trust | Mar 30, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Nina Ranalli Many scholars before me have embarked on studies of tea-drinking in early America; but passion for the material and generous funding from the Decorative Arts Trust allowed me to pursue the topic from a...
by The Trust | Mar 30, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Rebecca Migdal Reynolda House is the country home of Katharine Smith Reynolds (1880–1924) and Richard “Dick” Joshua Reynolds (1850–1918), built in 1917. The house and its surrounding farms, gardens, and village were the...
by The Trust | Mar 30, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Jackie Killian The title of this article is a question that I asked myself when deciding on a thesis topic last spring. Numerous documented examples of furniture made during the first fifty years of colonial settlement...
by The Trust | Mar 30, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Josh Probert Iowa and Wisconsin are not the states that first come to mind when one thinks of the nation’s best collections of Tiffany stained glass, yet both contain treasure troves of ecclesiastical works from the...
by The Trust | Mar 30, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Alexandra Parker Smithsonian George Mason Program in the History of Decorative Arts The focus of my masters thesis research is the documentation of the American cabinetmakers who manufactured knife boxes and extant...
by The Trust | Mar 29, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS by Emily Pazar University of Delaware, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, MA Candidate I am the grateful recipient of the Decorative Arts Trust’s Marie Zimmermann Summer Research Grant for my thesis research...
by The Trust | Mar 29, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS by Sarah Thomas College of William and Mary, History, PhD. Candidate During the summer of 2015, the Decorative Arts Trust kindly provided me with funding to support research for my doctoral dissertation, “Objects of the...
by The Trust | Mar 29, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS by Ruthie Dibble Yale University, History of Art, PhD. Candidate Thanks to the generosity of the Decorative Arts Trust, this summer I conducted crucial fieldwork relating to my dissertation, “’Strike Home to the Minds of...
