by The Trust | Jul 13, 2021
Will Coleman Shares Virtual Tour of Olana State Historic Site For our July Virtual Tour, the Decorative Arts Trust visited Olana State Historic Site, the extraordinary residence of Frederic Church, one of the premier landscape painters of the 19th century. William L....
by The Trust | Jul 2, 2021
Sarah Grandin and Elizabeth Cleland Discuss Savonnerie Carpet Production in 17th-Century France In our latest virtual dialogue, Sarah Grandin, PhD, Clark-Getty Paper Project Curatorial Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, shared a lecture titled “Trees, Orphans, and the...
by The Trust | Jun 28, 2021
Decorative Arts and the Market Panel Discussion Featuring Dealers On June 21, the Trust hosted the second discussion in our series on decorative arts and the market. This conversation featured dealers of decorative arts and antiquities. Benjamin Miller, host of the...
by The Trust | Jun 24, 2021
Alexandra Kirtley Shares New American Art Galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art A lot has changed in the past year. On June 16 the Trust was welcomed back to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) by Alexandra A. Kirtley, the Montgomery-Garvan Curator of American...
by The Trust | Jun 10, 2021
Xiaoyi Diana Yang and Angelika Kuettner Virtual Dialogue on Zhangzhou Porcelains Xiaoyi Diana Yang, PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center, chose to study Zhangzhou porcelain because she wanted to do something different. On June 3, 2021, Diana...
by The Trust | Jun 4, 2021
Memory Vessels: Folk Art with a Compelling International Origin by John-Duane Kingsley As a cultural artifact of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, memory jugs possess an intersectional history as a form of domestic craft with ties to African and African-American...
by The Trust | May 27, 2021
Winterthur Museum Curator Emerita Wendy Cooper Shares Primitive Hall’s Architecture, Furniture, and History “Built in 1738, Primitive Hall was enormous for its time,” shared Wendy Cooper, Curator Emerita of Furniture, Winterthur Museum, at the start of her virtual...
by The Trust | May 17, 2021
Alec Cobbe and the ‘Peacock’ Worcester Service of 1763 “It’s a story that began with a sale catalogue coming through my letterbox,” noted Alec Cobbe at the start of his virtual lecture on May 10. “I suddenly noticed a lot for a knife and fork that was said to be...
