by The Trust | Mar 30, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Kati Schmidt “The outstanding value of ‘Lucknow’ is the handwork of nature; all the wealth and knowledge of man cannot create its equal.”1 Thomas Gustave Plant published this claim about his New Hampshire home in a...
by The Trust | Mar 30, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Joseph H. Larnerd Winterthur’s collection offers an excellent introduction to scrimshaw. A pie crimper, engraved teeth, and other objects attest to the diversity of artifacts made with whale bone and ivory. My thesis on...
by The Trust | Mar 30, 2016
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Dalila Huerta In 1933, the Simmons Company of Chicago, IL exhibited a steel bedroom ensemble at the Century of Progress World’s Fair. The ensemble, originally designed in 1929 by Norman Bel Geddes, featured a...
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...
