2009 Programs

TuesdayJan 13
Historic American Landscapes: Creating a Sense of Time and PlaceJohn Forti, Strawbery Banke
TuesdayFeb 10
Streamlining: The American Contribution to ModernismJeffrey L Meikle, University of Texas at Austin
TuesdayMar 10
Charles Rohlfs, the Aesthetic Movement and the Roots of his Artistic FurnitureSarah Fayen, Chipstone Foundation
TuesdayApr 14
Scrimshaw, The Whalemen’s ArtStuart M Frank, New Bedford Whaling Museum
TuesdayMay 12
Cutthroat Competition for Peaceable Kingdoms: Connoisseurship in the Marketplace for Edward HicksSusan D Kleckner, University City, MO
TuesdayJun 9
The Shipcarvers’ Art: Wooden Sculpture in 19th Century AmericaRalph Sessions, DC Moore Gallery
TuesdayJul 14
George G. Wright and Philadelphia’s Federal Cabinetmakers, 1795-1815Clark Pearce, Essex, MA
SundayAug 16
Michael Weller Silver Seminar: American Flatware - Unexpected Servings: Colonial and Federal FlatwareD. Albert Soeffing, Philadelphia, PA
SundayAug 16
Michael Weller Silver Seminar: American Flatware - A Cornucopia of Choices: American Patterned Flatware, 1842-1876D. Albert Soeffing, Philadelphia, PA
SundayAug 16
Michael Weller Silver Seminar: American Flatware - American Nineteenth-Century Flatware: Jewelry of the TableWilliam P Hood, Dothan, AL
TuesdaySep 8
'They took to their tools like ducks to water': The Cincinnati Women Woodcarvers of the Aesthetic MovementJennifer L Howe, Cincinnati, OH
TuesdayOct 27
America’s First Face: The Progress of Portrait Miniatures in the New RepublicElle Shushan, Philadelphia, PA
TuesdayNov 10
Ornamented Furniture of the Inland South, 1775-1850Sumpter T Priddy, Alexandria, VA
TuesdayDec 8
Harbor and Home: Furniture of Coastal New England, 1725-1825Brock Jobe, Winterthur Museum