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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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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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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