by The Trust | Sep 2, 2021
Touring Sabine Hall with Ralph Harvard On August 26, it was an enormous pleasure to visit Sabine Hall, one of Colonial America’s most extraordinary baroque houses, for a Trust Virtual Tour with Ralph Harvard. Landon Carter, an ambitious patriot and politician, built...
by The Trust | Aug 11, 2021
August Virtual Tour of the Wharton Esherick Museum On a beautiful summer day the Decorative Arts Trust visited the Wharton Esherick Museum to share a virtual tour. Julie Siglin, Executive Director, and Emily Zilber, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Strategic...
by The Trust | Jul 26, 2021
Modern Gothic Opens at the Brooklyn Museum by Matthew Thurlow Until recently, exhibition openings remained a quaint concept of the bygone pre-COVIDian era. The arrival of an invitation to attend the June 30 opening of the Brooklyn Museum’s Modern Gothic: The Inventive...
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 | 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 | 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 | Apr 29, 2021
Touring Brooke’s Bank with Ralph Harvard For our April virtual tour, we joined Ralph Harvard, the antiquarian, designer, and Trust Governor, in a visit to Brooke’s Bank, a stunning and unusual Virginia house. The house is atypical, in part, because it was built...
by The Trust | Mar 5, 2021
Brittany Luberda Shares Virtual Tour of the Baltimore Museum of Art Brittany Luberda, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, hosted a virtual tour for the Decorative Arts Trust on February 26. Brittany shared the museum’s effort to expand...
