ONLINE LEARNING
“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.
The Material World of the Spanish Colonial Estrado
BY JORGE F. RIVAS PÉREZ
Sometimes a separate room or a sectioned-off portion of a reception room, the estrado was the most important feminine space in elite Spanish homes.
Chronicles of a Global East: Seattle Art Museum Exhibition Examines Silk Roads and Maritime Routes
BY FOONG PING
Chronicles of a Global East, an ongoing exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, narrates a few of the many stories related to the Silk Roads and maritime routes, where innumerable transnational artistic traditions emerged.
Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Porcelain at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
BY WILLIAM KEYSE RUDOLPH
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s ‘Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Soft-Paste Porcelain’ exhibition uses nearly two dozen works from the Museum’s small but high-quality collections of 18th-century French soft-paste porcelain to trace the development of porcelain in France.
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