by The Trust | Mar 28, 2022
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...
by The Trust | Mar 23, 2022
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...
by The Trust | Mar 21, 2022
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...
by The Trust | Feb 18, 2022
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,...
by The Trust | Feb 17, 2022
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....
by The Trust | Feb 1, 2022
Winter 2021–22 Magazine Articles Now Online Enjoy select articles from our member magazine, The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust, now online! The Trust thanks the many contributors who helped us create this stellar issue. Click the links below to read digital...
by The Trust | Jan 31, 2022
2022 Virtual Emerging Scholars Colloquium Features New Research On January 24, 2022, the Decorative Arts Trust hosted a successful 6th Annual Colloquium for young scholars in the decorative arts field. The Emerging Scholars Colloquium was originally scheduled to be...
by The Trust | Jan 7, 2022
Salem Emerging Scholar Lectures Available Online During the Decorative Arts Trust’s Fall 2021 Symposium in Salem, we were pleased to welcome two emerging scholars to lecture about their research. Sybil F. Johnson, a PhD Candidate at Boston University, presented the...
