1995

January            The Evolution of Shaker Furniture Design

            Jean M. Burks, Lincoln, Nebraska

 

February       General John Cadwalader’s Philadelphia Chippendale Furniture

                        Philip D. Zimmerman, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

 

March             Legacy of Largesse: New Viewpoints on the Little Collection

                        Wendell Garrett, New York City

 

April               Charles Honore Lannuier and the New York School of Cabinetmaking, 1800 – 1820

                        Peter M. Kenney, Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

May                Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers and Pictorial Needlework, 1650 – 1850

                        Betty Ring, Houston

 

June                Nineteenth Century New Orleans Silver

            H. Parrot Bacot, Jr., Louisiana State University Museum of Art

 

July                 American Fancy, 1790 – 1840

                        Sumpter T. Priddy, Richmond, Virginia

 

August            “In the Best Modern Spirit”: Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Stained Glass Windows

                        Elizabeth J. De Rosa, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

September            George Hunzinger: New York Chairmaker

                        Barry R. Harwood, The Brooklyn Museum

 

October            The Gothic Revival in America

                        Robert F. Trent, The The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

 

November     Healthy, Wealthy or Wise? New England Arts and Crafts Pottery

                        Susan J. Montgomery, Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth

 

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1996

January            Dining in Victorian America

                        Susan R. Williams, Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts

 

February            Nineteenth Century American Clocks

                        Robert C. Cheney, Brimfield, Massachusetts

 

March             Classical Savannah: Fine and Decorative Arts, 1800 – 1840

                        Paige Talbott, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania

 

April               The Carver’s Art: Nineteenth Century American Folk Sculpture

                        Ralph Sessions, New York City

 

May                Making and Marketing Furniture in Eighteenth Century Newport

                        Margaretta Lovell, University of California, Berkeley

 

June                The New World Comes of Age: American Jewelry, 1825 – 1925

                        Samuel Beizer, Bard Graduate Center

 

July                 Banishing Shadows: Nineteenth Century Lighting

                        Christopher Bensch, Strong Museum

 

August            Adirondack Furniture and the Rustic Tradition

                        Craig Gilborn, Long Lake, New York

 

September            American Silver, 1840 – 1940

                        Charles L. Venable, Dallas Museum of Art

 

October            Head, Heart & Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters

                        Marie Via, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

 

November            Classical Fair: The Rage for the Antique in Early America

Donald L. Fennimore, The The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Museum

 

December            Louis Comfort Tiffany: His Windows, Mosaics and Lamps

                        J. Alastair Duncan, New York City

 

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1997

 

January            Hispanic Furniture of New Mexico

                        Lonn W. Taylor, National Museum of American History

 

February       The New Orleans Furniture Trade in the Nineteenth Century

                        Stephen G. Harrison, Louisiana State Museum

 

March             New Discoveries in Shaker Paints and Varnishes

Susan L. Buck, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities

 

April               Leon Marcotte: New York Cabinetmaker and Interior Decorator

                        Nina C. Gray, New York City

 

May                Glimpses of Everyday Life in New England, 1750 – 1850

Jane C. Nylander, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities

 

June                Paul Revere: From Artisan to Entrepreneur

                        Deborah A. Federhen, The Bennington Museum

 

July                 Decorative Arts from a New England Collection

                        David F. Wood, The Concord Museum

 

August            Dressing the American Woman in the Nineteenth Century

                        Elizabeth Jachimowicz, Chicago

 

September     With Style and Propriety: Furniture from the Munson Williams Proctor

                        Anna T. d’Ambrosio, Munson Williams Proctor Institute

 

October            L. & J.G. Stickley, Innovation and Derivation

                        Donald A. Davidoff, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

November            American Decorative Tile

                        Cleota Reed, Syracuse, New York

 

December      Furniture as Social History: Gender, Property and Memory

                        Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University

 

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1998

January          New York Furniture for the Charleston Market, 1810 – 1840

                        Robert A. Leath, Historic Charleston Foundation

 

February       New Discoveries in Baltimore Painted Furniture, 1800 – 1840

                        Gregory R. Weidman, Maryland Historical Society

 

March             The Gas Chandelier and Nineteenth Century American Culture

                        Kirk D. Swinehart, New Haven, Connecticut

 

April               Temperance and the American Potter’s Art

                        Susan H. Myers, National Museum of American History

 

May                Memory and Mourning: Death in Victorian America

                        Deborah A. Smith, Maine State Museum

 

June                The Rococo, the Grotto, and the Philadelphia High Chest

                        Jonathan Prown, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

 

July                 American Neoclassical Sculpture

                        Jan S. Ramirez, Museum of the City of New York

 

August            Inspiring Reform: The Arts and Crafts Movement in New England

                        Jeannine Falino, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

September            The American Cut Glass Industry

                        Jane S. Spillman, The Corning Museum of Glass

 

October          Saarinen, Eames & Venturi: Three Generations of American Design

                        R. Craig Miller, Denver Art Museum

 

November     Myer Myers and the Goldsmith Trade in New York City, 1746 – 1795

                        David L. Barquist, Yale University Art Gallery

 

December            High Style in the Low Country

                        Olivia Alison, Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia

 

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1999

January          New Discoveries in the New Republic: The Furniture of John & Thomas Seymour

            Robert D. Mussey, Boston, Massachusetts

 

February            Grand Rapids Furniture

                        Christian G. Varron, Public Museum of Grand Rapids

 

March             Arthur & Lucia Matthews: The California Decorative Style

                        Harvey L. Jones, Oakland Museum of Art

 

April               “The Light of the Other Days”: The Stained Glass of John La Farge

                        James L. Yarnall, Middletown, Rhode Island

 

May                Pennsylvania Baroque: 1695 – 1755

                        Jack L. Lindsey, Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

June                The Newark Jewelry Industry

                        Ulysses G. Dietz, The Newark Museum

 

July                 Furniture Making in Western Connecticut, 1750 – 1800

                        Edward S. Cooke, Yale University

 

August            “Ancient and Valuable Gifts”: Silver at Harvard College

                        Janine E. Skerry, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

 

September            Democracy’s Design: Decorative Arts in the White House

                        Betty C. Monkman, The White House

 

October            Dressed for the Photographer

                        Joan Severa, Madison, Wisconsin

 

November            Natchez Furniture

                        Ronald W. Miller, Historic Natchez Foundation

 

December      The Decorative Arts at Newport of the Aesthetic Movement

                        Paul F. Miller, The Preservation Society of Newport County

 

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2000

January            American Naval Ship Silver, 1889 – 1989

                        Sherry L. Langrock, Woodside, California

 

February            New York Federal Furniture at Boscobel

                        Jeni L. Sandberg, Boscobel, Garrison, New York

 

March             When Virginia was the Wild West

                        Cary Carson, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

 

April               “Doing Common Things Uncommonly Well”: The Critic and the Craftsman

                        Beverly K. Brandt, Arizona State University

 

May                The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection of American Decorative Art, 1825 – 1917

                        Donald C. Peirce, The High Museum of Art

 

June                Decorative Arts from the Albany Institute of History & Art

                        Tammis K. Groft, Albany Institute of History & Art

 

July                 “To Make Pleasurable Those Things….”: The Decorative Arts of Charles & Henry Greene

                        Edward R. Bosley, The Gamble House

 

August            American Modern: 1925 – 1940

                        Jane Adlin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

September     “Long Island Is My Nation”: The Decorative Arts and Craftsman, 1640 – 1830

                        Dean F. Failey, Christie’s, New York City

 

October          The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection of Folk Art

                        Carolyn J. Weekley, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

 

November     Art in the Empire City: New York, 1825 – 1861

                        Catherine H. Voorsanger, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

December      Shaker Gifts, Shaker Genius

                        Erin H. Budis, Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York

 

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