2017 Programs
Goods of Every Description: Shopping in New Orleans 1825-1925Lydia Blackmore, The Historic New Orleans Collection
“The Polite Implements of Eating:” Innovation and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American SilverJohn Stuart Gordon, Yale University Art Gallery
The Architecture of Dining: Swid Powell, Alessi, and the Postmodern TabletopJohn Stuart Gordon, Yale University Art Gallery
As Elegant as You Expect to Find Elsewhere: the Decorative Arts of Federal MaineLaura Fecych Sprague, Portland, ME
The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Scrimshaw Collection: Patriotic Enthusiasm for American Maritime ProwessStuart M Frank, New Bedford Whaling Museum
Deborah Lyde Brinley: Goddess in Colonial Boston and Margaret Kemble Gage: Sultana of the American RevolutionCarrie Rebora Barratt, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Queen Victoria: English Inspiration From Across the Pond and Susan Walker Morse: Clio in the Communication AgeCarrie Rebora Barratt, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Linking Land and Sea: The Design and Decoration of Transatlantic Ocean Liners Christie D. Jackson, Trustees of the Reservations
Nature and Landscape, Shaping Early America’s IdentityMargaret Beck Pritchard, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Painted Furniture and Pleasure Gardens: New Life Styles in Federal America, 1785–1820Wendy A Cooper, Curator Emerita, Winterthur Museum
Tiffany’s Glass MosaicsKelly Conway, Corning Museum Of Glass
A Shopping Spree, an Auction and a Gift: Rediscovering the Furnishings of Mount Vernon’s Front ParlorAdam T. Erby, George Washington's Mount Vernon