by The Trust | Jun 13, 2022
Art and Jazz at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Christiana Larracuente and Nonie Gadsden The Art and Jazz gallery is one of seven newly installed galleries in the Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). This gallery explores the...
by The Trust | Jun 6, 2022
Against the Grain: The Emergence of Queer Woodworkers by John-Duane Kingsley Members of the LGBTQIA+[1] community have long participated in the historical evolution of domestic handicraft and trade, but their contributions have largely been overlooked by scholarship...
by The Trust | May 31, 2022
2022 Research Grant Recipients The Decorative Arts Trust congratulates these 14 recipients of 2022 Research Grants: Olivia Armandroff, PhD student, Art History, University of Southern California (DARTS Grant), Jean Charlot’s 1957 house in Hawaii Emily Cox, PhD...
by The Trust | May 27, 2022
Community Centered Cultural Heritage Care: The Conservation Treatment of a Platinum Print from the Tuskegee University Archives by Tammy Hong The art conservation field’s growing emphasis on increasing the visibility of underrepresented communities and histories,...
by The Trust | Apr 25, 2022
In the Mold of Clodion: Sèvres’s “Vases Clodion” and the Sculptor’s Legacy by Elizabeth Saari Browne, PhD Despite the delays occasioned by the pandemic, I was finally able to travel to France in September 2021 to fulfill my research trip dedicated to...
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...
