23 YEARS OF OUTSTANDING
LECTURES BY SCHOLARS AND EXPERTS IN
AMERICAN DECORATIVE
ARTS
Please
click on the following links for past lectures within the dates
specified:
1983 -
1988 
1989 - 1994
1995 - 2000
2001
January Gustav
Stickley: Craftsman Farms and the Craftsman
Line
Tommy A. McPherson, The Stickley Museum, Morris
Plains, NJ
February The
American Wing: 75 Years of Collecting American
Furniture
Morrison H. Heckscher, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art
March The
Art Nouveau Movement and the United
States
Martin Eidelberg, Rutgers
University
April Baltimore
Painted Furniture
Jeannine A. Disviscour, Maryland Historical
Society
May The
Ornamental Ironwork of J.W.
Fiske
Barbara Israel, New York
City
June How
Do We Know? Clues to Historic
Interiors
Ellen K. Donald, Alexandria,
Virginia
July Millennial
Dreams: Vision and Prophecy in American Folk
Art
Gerard C. Wertkin, American Museum of Folk Art, New
York City
August Case
Furniture in the DAR
Collection
Patrick
M. Sheary, DAR Museum, Washington, D.C.
September Art,
Antiques and Politics in the Boston on the Eve of the
Revolution
Jonathan Fairbanks, Museum of Fine Arts (Emeritus),
Boston, Massachusetts
October The
Gothic Revival in
America
Stephen Parks, Yale
University
November Pacific
Light: California Stained
Glass
Linda Papanicolaou, Stanford,
California
December Gorham
Silver
Samuel Hough, Cranston, Rhode
Island
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2002
January Off
the Wall: Color and Pattern in 18th and 19th
Century Interiors
Margaret Beck Pritchard, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation
February Neoclassicism
in Charleston Before the
Revolution
J. Thomas Savage, Sotheby’s, New York
City
March Beyond
Eames: Other Designers at Herman
Miller
Stanley Abercrombie, Sonoma,
California
April The
Truth Lies Within: Furniture Fakes from
Chipstone
Luther C. Beckerdite, III, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation
May America’s
Immigrant Artisans: The White House and
Beyond
Sumpter T. Priddy, III, Alexandria,
Virginia
June Modern
and Anti-Modern Arts & Crafts in Britain, Europe and the U.S.,
1880 – 1920
Wendy J. Kaplan, Los Angeles County Museum of
Art
July Inspiration
and Imitation: Chinese Influences on American Decorative Arts and
Architecture
William R. Sargent, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem,
Massachusetts
August Japonism
in Victorian America
William N. Hosley, Jr., The Antiquarian and
Landmarks Society, Hartford, Connecticut
September America’s
Earliest Garden Rooms: Painted Furniture Inside and
Out
Wendy
A. Cooper, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Wilmington,
Delaware
October Hollywood
Goddesses and Highboys from Four New England
Seaports
Kemble
Widmer, II, Gastonia, North Carolina
November American
Design in an International Context, 1975 –
2000
R.
Craig Miller, Denver Art Museum
December New
York Colonial Silver
David
L. Barquist, Yale University Art Gallery
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2003
January
Inside the Bungalow: Arts & Crafts
Interiors
Paul Duscherer, San
Francisco
February Cora
Ginsurg’s Influence as a Pioneer Textile and Costume
Dealer
Titi Halle, Cora Ginsburg, LLC, New York
City
March Art
Deco: Stylized Neoclassicism or Victoria’s Last
Gasp?
Michael Crowe, Oakland, CA
April Furniture
of Newport’s Golden Age, 1720 – 1800
Christopher Monkhouse, Minneapolis Institute of
Arts, Minneapolis, MN
May
An Architectural and Social History of Newport’s
Gilded Age, 1840 - 1940
John R. Tschirch, The Preservation Society of
Newport County, RI
June Treasures
of the China Trade
Carl Crossman, Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth,
NH
July The
Value of History: Americana in the
Marketplace
John A. Hays, Christie’s, New York
City
August Quest
for Comfort: Lighting 1675 –
1840
H. Parrott Bacot, Louisiana State University School
of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
September Abstraction
and the Aesthetics of American Folk
Art
Tom Armstrong, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York City
October Grecian
Furniture in American 1825 – 1850 and its
Antecedents
Thomas Gordon Smith, AIA, Nortre Dame, South Bend,
IN
November Perfection
of Form and Condition: Masterpiece Clocks in the
Marketplace
Robert Cheney, Brimfield,
MA
December Collecting
Twentieth Century Silver: Treasures from the Newark
Museum
Ulysses
Grant Dietz, Newark Museum
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2004
January Finishing
Touches: Techniques and Materials of Furniture
Conservation
Robert Mussey, Robert Mussey Associates, Boston,
MA
February Greatest
Hits of American Arts and
Crafts
David Rago, David Rago Auctions, Lambertville,
NJ
March Unraveling
the Homespun Myth: French and English Luxury Goods in America, 1749
– 1810
Edward Maeder, Historic Deerfield, Deerfield,
MA
April Samuel
Gragg’s Elastic Chair: A Prelude to the Aesthetic
Movement
Michael S. Podmaniczky, The Henry
Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
May Grand
Exuberance: Building and Furnishing Hearst
Castle
Victoria Kastner, Hearst Castle, San Simeon State
Park, CA
June Consuming
Technology: Industrial Art and Household Furnishings, 1850 –
1900
Cheryl Robertson, Cambridge,
MA
July The
Art and Science of Furniture
Connoisseurship
Philip D. Zimmerman, Lancaster,
PA
August Procured
of the Best and Most Fashionable Materials: The Furnishings of the
Lloyd Family of Maryland, 1750 –
1850
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, Philadelphia Museum of
Art
September From
Queen Anne to Arts and Crafts: Two Centuries of Change in American
Furniture
Brock Jobe, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur
Museum, Winterthur, DE
October
Four Centuries of Silver in the Golden
State
Michael Weller, Argentum, San Francisco,
CA
November The
Polite Lady or a Course of Female
Education
Davida Deutsch, New York
City
December Gilbert
Stuart At Home and
Abroad
Carrie Rebora Barratt, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York City
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2005
January
Art Pottery, Bungalows and Atascadero: E.G. Lewis and the
American Women's
League
Anne Woodhouse, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis,
MO
February Duncan Phyfe:
Legendary Cabinetmaker
Peter Kenny, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City
March American
Sampler: Silver and Other Treasures from the Ruth Nutt
Collection
Julie
Emerson, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
April
Victorian Glory: Victorian Interiors and All the Stuff They
Contained
Paul Duscherer, San Francisco, CA
May American
Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790 - 1840
Sumpter
T. Priddy, III, Alexandria, VA
June Collecting
Country Arts: Nina Fletcher and the Conousseurship of
Anonymity
Philip Zea, Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA
July
The American Potter: Redware, Stoneware and Porcelain, 1700
- 1900
Amanda
Lange, Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA
August
The East India Marine Society and Early Maritime Collecting
in Salem
Daniel Finamore, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
September Golden Gate
Park: Gallery of Victorian Style, Culter and
Custom
Christopher Pollock, San Francisco, CA
October
Benjamin Franklin at Home
Paige Talbott, Bala Cynwyd, PA
November
California Paintings of the Hudson River School and and the
Barbizon Period
Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., Northpoint Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
December To the
Table: Food Preparation, Presentation and Pleasurable
Partaking
Elisabeth Garrett, Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth,
NH
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2006
January
Lions
& Eagles & Bulls: Early American Tavern and Inn
Signs
Susan Schoelwer,
Director of Museum Collections, Connecticut Historical Society,
Hartford,
CT
February
Blueprints for Modern Living: LA in the 50’s and 60’s
Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Chief Curator, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
March
From Rome to San Francisco
Direct: American Neoclassical
Sculpture in the Victorian Age
Thayer
Tolles, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York City
April
The Art of the
Garden, Indoors
Peter Brown, Curator, Fairfax
House, York,
England
May
Gambling Collectors: Chippendale Furniture and its
Revival in
America During the
1890’s
Thomas
Michie, Curator of Decorative Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of
Art,
Los Angeles, CA
June
Carpets and Colors in the American Home, 1800 –
1900
Jean
Dunbar, Preservation Scholar/Consultant, Lexington,
VA
July On
the Walls: Window
Treatments in the American Home,
1750-1900
Natalie Larson, Historic Textile
Furnishings Specialist, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation,
Williamsburg, VA
August Of
Show and Splendour:
Charleston’s Federal
Interiors
Robert A. Leath,
Vice President of Collections and Research, Old
Salem
September Imports
and Industry: Glass
Made and Used in Early America
Mary
Cheek Mills, Manager of School and Docent Programs, Corning
Museum Of
Glass, Corning,
NY
October
Preserved and Properly Covered: 250 Years of
Historic Upholstery
Alan
Breed, Artisan, South Berwick, Maine
December 'Cups that
Cheer': Tea Drinking in Early
America
Beth Wees, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
NY
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2007
January Competing
Scrolls and Cabrioles: Stiff Competition in the New York
Furniture Trade, 1825 - 1850
Matthew
A. Thurlow, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New
York
February European
Precedents for American Veneer and Inlay
Work
Dr. Ulrich Leben, Waddeston Manor, Buckinghamshire,
England
March The
Other Asian Exports: Indian Textiles and Luxury Goods in
America
Karina Corrigan, Asst. Curator, Asian Export Art, Peabody
Essex Museum, Salem, MA
April
A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic
Movement
Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio, Munson-Williams-Proctor
Arts Institute, Utica, New
York
May
On the Playing Fields of Privilege: The Residential
Work of Delano and
Aldrich, 1903
– 1940
Derek E. Ostergard, New
York, New York
June
The Clark Brothers as Collectors of John Singer
Sargent and Winslow Homer
Marc Simpson, Sterling and Francine
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,
MA
July
Understanding the Midas Touch: Gilding Through the
Centuries
Christine Thompson, Conservator, Salem,
MA
August Quilts in a
Material World: Selections From the Winterthur
Collection
Linda Eaton, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington,
DE
September
New York’s Tenth Street Studio Building: A Fraternity of
Artist-Entrepreneurs
Annette Blaugrund, National Academy of Design, New
York
October New
Perspectives on Old Rooms: The Reinstallation of the 18th
Century Period
Rooms
at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art
Amelia Peck, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, New
York
November 'A Grand and
Elegant House and Furniture': Furnishing the Cadwalader’s
Philadelphia House, 1770 –
1775
Alexandra Alevizatos
Kirtley, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia,
PA
December
Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney
Gardiner
Ann Wagner, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington,
DE
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