by The Trust | Aug 7, 2025
New Exhibition Highlights Fashionable Silhouettes, From the Ideal to the Real by Lauren D. Whitley Historic Deerfield’s exhibition Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes From the Ideal to the Real has generated significant traffic in the newly renovated Textile...
by The Trust | Jul 24, 2025
Lyndhurst Presents Alexander Jackson Davis Exhibition by Howard A. Zar Although largely unknown today, Alexander Jackson Davis was America’s preeminent architect of the first half of the 19th century. Davis came to prominence as practitioner of the Greek Revival...
by The Trust | Jul 3, 2025
Conserving Two Banners of Liberty by Matthew Skic Thanks to the generous support of the Decorative Arts Trust through the Dean F. Failey Fund, the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, PA, was able to accomplish the conservation treatments of two...
by The Trust | Aug 15, 2024
Exhibition Highlights Black Newporters of the 17th-19th Centuries The Newport Historical Society recently launched the exhibition A Name, A Voice, A Life: The Black Newporters of the 17th-19th Centuries (figure 1). Supported in part through a generous grant by the...
by The Trust | Aug 1, 2024
Read Summer 2024 Magazine Articles Online Select articles from the summer 2024 issue of The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust are now available in webpage format. Enjoy reading these fascinating articles online. “A Primer on Portugal” by Matthew A. Thurlow...
by The Trust | Jun 13, 2024
Inaugural Publishing Grants Announced The Decorative Arts Trust is thrilled to announce the four recipients of the inaugural round of Publishing Grant funding. The Hispanic Society Museum and Library; The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens; and the...
by The Trust | Jul 18, 2023
Atwater Kent Collection Shared Through Drexel-PAFA Partnership by Matthew A. Thurlow A strategic partnership between Drexel University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) has created the opportunity to store, study, and display the Atwater Kent...
by The Trust | Apr 18, 2023
The Gregory Gift: New Decorative Arts Exhibition at Frick Madison by Marie-Laure Buku Pongo Currently on display at Frick Madison, the temporary home of The Frick Collection, is a varied assemblage of decorative objects from the bequest of Alexis Gregory, the...
