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The Finest Regency Porcelain Painter: Thomas Baxter in Worcester
BY CHARLES DAWSON
There is no greater name in the history of English Regency porcelain painters than that of Thomas Baxter. His whole life was given to the art of porcelain painting, and his work at the Worcester Flight & Barr factory, the subject of a new book, is among the choicest of the era.
Historic Odessa Collections Published
BY PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
One hundred of the objects in the Delaware’s Historic Odessa Foundation’s Wilson-Warner House and the Corbit-Sharp House are addressed in detail in the new book 𝘈 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵: 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘖𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢, with four chapters exploring the town’s early settlement, families, craftsmen, and preservation.
Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread
BY REED GOCHBERG
The Concord Museum’s special exhibition 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯: 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 features samplers made by young women during the 18th and 19th centuries in Middlesex County, MA.
“A Place to Cultivate her Mind in by Musing”: New Exploration of Anne Emlen’s 1757 Shellwork Grotto
BY KAILA TEMPLE
Anne Reckless Emlen’s 1757 creation, referred to by scholars and Stenton Museum staff over the years as a grotto box or shell box, is an object in which one can easily get lost.
A Million Hidden Stories: Uncovering Materials at the New Orleans Museum of Art
BY LAURA OCHOA RINCON
Thanks to my Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellowship, I have learned an extraordinary amount in my first year about glass, rings, fashion, and how all of these different objects are ways to convey stories about people.
French Interiors for an American Gilded Age
BY LAURA C. JENKINS
From the early 1880s onward, the movement of French 18th-century decorative arts from Europe to New York coincided with a growing fashion among the wealthy of that city for rooms in French historical styles.
18th-Century Marine Imagery in the Sèvres Archive
BY ALYSE MULLER
A Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant provided the opportunity to conduct essential research at the Sèvres manufactory archive in Paris. My dissertation reconsiders the marine genre within a variety of mediums to explore the nexus of maritime commerce, political aspirations, iconography, and aesthetics.
Jean and Zohmah Charlot’s House: A Modernist Space Referencing Enduring Cultural Traditions
BY OLIVIA ARMANDROFF
Located in Honolulu’s Kāhala neighborhood, in close proximity to the shoreline, Jean and Zohmah Charlot’s house has a modest footprint and understated design that speak to a different era.
What a Decade It Has Been! A Tribute to Matt Thurlow
BY BROCK JOBE
after ten years at the helm, Decorative Arts Trust Executive Director Matthew Thurlow merits our most heartfelt praise. Matt has guided the Trust through a decade of growth, especially in supporting scholarship, emerging professionals, and graduate students.
Argonaut: Dorothy Liebes and the Brussels Universal Exposition
BY SUSAN BROWN AND ALEXA GRIFFITH WINTON
Dorothy Liebes is featured in a Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum exhibition covering her many accomplishments, including the Argonaut textile for the United States Pavilion at the Brussels Universal Exposition—Expo ’58.
SAVE THE DATE
- Special Program: Tour of the Newark Museum with retiring Chief Curator Ulysses Dietz November 3
- New York Antiques Weekend January 19-20, 2018
- Emerging Scholars Colloquium January 21, 2018
- Symposium Upper Hudson River Valley: From the Mohawk to the Berkshires May 3-6, 2018
- Symposium New Orleans & the Mississippi Delta November 1-4, 2018
- Study Trip Prague & Vienna with an extension to Budapest With an extension to Budapest October 1–11 and 16–26, 2018; Extension October 12–15