by The Trust | Sep 15, 2022
H.F. du Pont’s British Tortoiseshell Box at Winterthur that Was Most Definitely Not British by Tammy Hong My training at Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) provides many opportunities to spend time examining and understanding...
by The Trust | Sep 13, 2022
Studying the Use and Reuse of Early American Artists’ Materials at Winterthur by Cambra Sklarz With the help of a research grant from the Decorative Arts Trust, I pursued essential resources for my dissertation about the ways that artists in 18th- and...
by The Trust | Sep 7, 2022
Researching the Intersection of Optical Instruments and Enslavement by Michael W. Hartman Thanks to a Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant, in spring 2022 I traveled throughout Maryland and Virginia to conduct sight-specific research in support of my University of...
by The Trust | Aug 30, 2022
Wright, Sullivan, and Tiffany: Studying Pathways to Modernism in Chicago by Rebecca Hagen As the registrar at Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, Fallingwater, I spend most of my time surrounded by incredible art and architecture. I have devoted my career to the...
by The Trust | Aug 11, 2022
Kentucky Symposium Lecture Recordings Available Online The Decorative Arts Trust extends sincere gratitude to the presenters who contributed these recordings of their stellar lectures from the Trust’s Spring 2022 Symposium in Kentucky.The conference, titled Kentucky...
by The Trust | Aug 1, 2022
Summer 2022 Magazine Articles Now Online The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust is one of our most popular member benefits and is mailed twice per year exclusively to members of the Decorative Arts Trust. Everyone interested in the decorative arts is invited to...
by The Trust | Jul 19, 2022
Unraveling the Mysteries of Lace: Examining the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Important Collection by Cecilia Gunzburger With the support of a Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant, after two years of pandemic delays I was able at long last to further my dissertation...
by The Trust | Jun 27, 2022
Louis C. Tiffany and Latin America: A New Installation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Juliana Fagua Arias In the 1960s, The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a collection of watercolors from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933). These design...
