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...
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...