1983
October American
Decorative Arts at The Fines Arts Museums Past, Present, and Future
Expectations
Donald L. Stover, The
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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1984
February Andalusia: The Preservation of a
Great American Estate
James Biddle,
Philadelphia
New Discoveries
in Early Southern Decorative Arts
and, Made to Rival the
Best: Charleston Furniture
Bradford L.
Rauschenberg, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
March Changing Ways of Making
Silver: Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries
and, Gorham, Tiffany and
Art Nouveau Silver
Charles H. Carpenter,
Jr., New Canaan
April The American Arts and
Crafts Movement: The Good Life
Wesley Chamberlin, San
Francisco State University
May To Live with Antiques:
Handle with Love
Kay Barrett, Pebble
Beach
June New England Begins: The
Seventeenth Century
Jonathan L. Fairbanks, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
Harold L. Sack, Israel Sack, Inc., New
York City
September The Oriental Presence in American
Art
Milo M. Naeve, The Art
Institute of Chicago
October Glass and Glass Makers of the
New World
Robert W. Hunt, San
Francisco
November Recent
Excavations at Flowerdew Hundred: New
Views of American Material Culture
James
F. Deetz, University of California, Berkeley
December A
Night of Introductions: Something New at The Oakland Museum
Kenneth
R. Trapp and Inez Brooks-Myers, The Oakland Museum
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1985
January Samplers
and Pictorial Embroideries: Forgotten Documents of Education
Betty
Ring, Houston
February Inherited
from the Past: The Period Room
and, The
Machine and Decorative Arts in America
Dianne
H. Pilgrim, The Brooklyn Museum
March An
Overview of American Folk Art
and, Highlights
from the Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art
Robert
Bishop, Museum of American Folk Art
April American
Ceramics of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Phillip
Curtis, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
May New
England Furniture of the Colonial Era
Brock
W. Jobe, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
June Attributions
and Misattributions
Bernard
Levy, Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc, New York City
July Carpets
in America
Helene
von Rosenstiel, New York City
September Off the Walls: Historic Wallpaper in New England
Richard
C. Nylander, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
October Shaker
Furniture and Decorative Arts
June
Sprigg, Hancock Shaker Village
November Nineteenth
Century Philadelphia Furniture and Cabinetmakers
Kathleen
Catalano, National Park Service, Cambridge
December Dutch
Influence in Colonial America
Joseph
T. Butler, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Tarrytown
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1986
January Early
Americans in Their Cups
Arlene
Palmer Schwind, Yarmouth
February The
Aesthetic Movement in American Decorative Art
Marilyn
Johnson, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City
March Regional
Characteristics of New York Furniture, 1760 – 1815
Gilbert
T. Vincent, New York State University, Cooperstown
April Festive
Traditions: Table Decoration and Dessert in America, 1650 – 1900
Louise
C. Belden, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
May American
Upholstery Techniques to 1830
Robert
F. Trent, Connecticut Historical Society
June Graduate
Scholars Colloquium:
The
Japanned Furniture of Boston
Deborah
A. Federhen, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
Nothing
Like It in the World: The University City Porcelain Works
Deborah
Binder, Boston University
The
Ulster County Grot Kast: Eighteenth Century Local Style in the Mid-Hudson
Valley
Peter
Kenney, Cooperstown Graduate Program
July The
Charleston Interior
J.
Thomas Savage, Jr., Historic Charleston Foundation
August Furniture
and Woodwork of the Connecticut River Valley
William
N. Hosley, Jr., Wadsworth Atheneum
September John Townsend and the Eighteenth Century Furniture of
Newport, Rhode Island
Morrison
H. Hecksher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
October The
Colonial Revival in America
Kenneth
L. Ames, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
November Flowerdew
Hundred, Part II
James
F. Deetz, University of California, Berkeley
December R.
E. Dietz and the Lighting Revolution in America
Ulysses
S. Dietz, The Newark Museum
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1987
January American
Needlework: To Collect or Appreciate
Susan
B. Swan, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
February The
Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection at the High Museum of Art
Donald
C. Pierce, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
March Maryland
Furniture, 1750 – 1840
William
Voss Elder, III, Baltimore Museum of Art
April The
Gothic Revival: Cottage and Church in the Nineteenth Century
Katherine
S. Howe, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
May Art
That is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America
Wendy
J. Kaplan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
June Graduate
Scholars Colloquium:
Samuel
Gragg, 1771 – 1855: Boston Chairmaker
Joel
D. Sweimler, Cooperstown Graduate Program
William
H. Grueby’s Art Pottery: The Arts and Crafts Dilemma
Susan
J. Montgomery, Boston University
John
Avery and the New London County, Connecticut, Silver Trade, 1760 – 1795
Joshua
W. Lane, Yale University
Ritual
and Meaning: The Material Culture of Alcohol Consumption in the Eighteenth
Century
Bradley
C. Brooks, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
July Thomas
Jefferson: First American Architect
Frederick
D. Nichols, University of Virginia
August The
Art of the Carver in Eighteenth Century America
Luther
C. Beckerdite, III, Priddy & Beckerdite
September Furniture Making in New Hampshire and Vermont, 1750 –
1850
Philip
Zea, Historic Deerfield
October American
Empire
Donald
L. Fennimore, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
November Federal
Philadelphia Silver
Beatrice
B. Garvan, Philadelphia Museum of Art
December Ironware
in the Early South
John
Bivins, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
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1988
January Quilted
for Friends: Signature Quilts, 1840 – 1855
Jessica
F. Nicoll, Old Sturbridge Village
February Frank
Lloyd Wright: Shapes of a Career
Dell
Upton, University of California, Berkeley
March Of
Domestic Manufacture: Glassware for the President’s House
Jane
S. Spillman, Corning Museum of Glass
April French
Taste in Mid-Nineteenth Century America: Leon Marcotte and his Patrons
Phillip
M. Johnston, The Carnegie Museum of Art
May New
Discoveries: American Decorative Arts at Auction
Dean
Failey, Christie’s
June Graduate
Scholars Colloquium:
Peter
Blin’s ‘Sunflower’ Furniture: The French Connection in Seventeenth Century
Wethersfield, Connecticut
Susan P. Schoelwer, Yale
University
German Craft Traditions in New York: The Chests of the New
York Palatines
Cory M. Amsler,
Cooperstown Graduate Program
The Needles’
Web: Embroidery in One Early Nineteenth Century Home
Amy B. Osaki, The The
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
American Biedermeier: The Germanic Influence on American
Furniture, 1820 – 1850
Charles L. Venable, The Dallas Museum of Art
July Furniture in a Colonial
Home, 1725 – 1790
Charles F. Hummel, The
The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Museum
August Neo-Classical
Elegance: The Work of William Camp and John Needles of Baltimore
Gregory R. Weidman,
Maryland Historical Society
September A Technological Perspective on
Nineteenth Century Furniture
Michael J. Ettema, Henry
Ford Museum
October Glass Americans Were Buying,
1825 – 1900
Kenneth M. Wilson, Henry
Ford Museum
November Myths and Realities of the American
Arts and Crafts Movement
Leslie G. Bowman, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art
December Auctioning
America’s Past: The History of the American Furniture Market in the 20th
Century
Leigh Keno, New York
City, and Leslie B. Keno, Sotheby’s
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