Decorative Arts Society Volume 24, Number1 Volume newsletter/spring 2016 The DAS DAS DAS news The Decorative Arts Society, Inc. in 1990 for the encouragement of interest in, the appreciation of, and the exchange of DAS sees changes on board, information about the decorative arts. To, is pursuea not-for-profit its purposes, New theYork DAS corporation sponsors foundedmeetings, Newsletter programs, seminars, tours and a newsletter on the decorative arts. Its supporters include museum curators, academics, collectors and dealers. is at peak of service and vitality Please send change-of-address information by e-mail to [email protected]. or the past 10 years, I have had to the chairs of the Robert C. Smith for the fall Board of Directors Gerald W. R. Ward Editor the honor and pleasure to serve and Charles F. Montgomery Award of 2016: to President Senior Consulting Curator Gerald W. R. Ward as president of the Decorative committees, and to Gerry Ward and New Haven, Senior Consulting Curator & F Susan P. Schoelwer Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of Arts Society (DAS). Believing strongly Ruth Thaler-Carter for their dedica- CT, to see Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator Robert H. Smith Senior Curator American Decorative Arts and - tion in bringing out each new issue of the exhibi- Sculpture Emeritus of American Decorative Arts and George Washington’s Mount Vernon cial to every organization (not to men- the newsletter. tion Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Sculpture Emeritus Mount Vernon, VA that changes in leadership are benefi Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I owe special thanks to Nicholas Industry Boston, MA decided to step down. I am delighted Vincent, who stepped down as vice in Early Treasurer Robert C. Smith Award Committee totion announce any incumbent that Susan of the P. office),Schoelwer I have, president in April, for organizing many America: Stewart G. Rosenblum, Esq. Jeannine Falino, Chair Coordinator the Robert H. Smith Senior Curator at successful trips and events, and to Rhode Is- Independent Curator, Museum Consultant Ruth E. Thaler-Carter George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Stewart Rosenblum, whose tireless land Furni- Secretary Adjunct curator, Museum of Arts and Freelance Writer/Editor has agreed to lead the DAS as our next work on behalf of the DAS extends well ture, 1650–1830, the culmination of Moira Gallagher Design Rochester, NY president. beyond his responsibilities as treasurer. many years of research by former DAS Research Assistant New York, NY I am also pleased to welcome The DAS was founded as a chap- president Patricia E. Kane and her Metropolitan Museum of Art Emily Orr, assistant curator of modern ter of the Society of Architectural colleagues, and to Winterthur (Wilm- New York, NY Suzanne Findlen Hood Associate Curator, Ceramics and Glass and contemporary American design at Historians, and it continues to play ington, DE), to see the exhibition Made Margaret Caldwell Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design in America, in which Museum of Fine Williamsburg, VA The DAS Newsletter is a publication Museum, to our board, who has al- academics, museum professionals, Arts (MFA) Boston curator Dennis Judith Hernstadt of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. The ready begun working on fall program- collectors,a significant dealers role in and bringing enthusiasts, together all Carr explores the complex inter- Dennis Carr purpose of the DAS Newsletter is to serve as ming. of whom share a passion for decora- changes between Asia and Europe that Emily Orr a forum for communication about research, Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of The best part of serving as presi- tive arts. The Smith and Montgomery took place in the Americas. I’m looking Assistant Curator of Modern and exhibitions, publications, conferences and American Decorative Arts and dent has been the opportunity to work publication awards recognize land- forward to participating in these fall contemporary American design Sculpture other activities pertinent to the serious with so many dedicated and talented marks in scholarship. Our events and programs and continuing to see all of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA study of international and American deco- Museum Boston, MA rative arts. Listings are selected from press individuals who generously volunteer trips enable us to see and experience you at these and future events. New York, NY releases and notices posted or received their time to the DAS. I’m particularly important collections, historic sites and Each and every person who is part Karen Zukowski from institutions, and from notices submit- groundbreaking exhibitions. of the DAS contributes to its amazing Committees Art Historian ted by individuals. We reserve the right and members of the board of directors, We have two day-trips scheduled vitality — long may it continue! Charles F. Montgomery Prize and to reject material and to edit material for grateful to present and past officers Emily Orr length or clarity. Award Committee Assistant curator of modern and We do not cover commercial galleries. Wendy Cooper, Chair contemporary American design The DAS Newsletter welcomes submis- Curator Emerita of Furniture Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design sions, preferably in digital format, by e-mail Save the dates! In this issue Winterthur Museum Museum in Plain Text or as Word attachments, or Wilmington, DC New York, NY on a CD. Images should be at high quality lan now to participate in upcoming DAS private tours of these special exhibi- (400 dpi), as TIFFs or JPEGs, either color or Nancy Carlisle tions scheduled for the fall of 2016 in Connecticut and Delaware. DAS con- Jennifer Scanlan black-and-white, with detailed captions. Senior Curator of Collections tributors will receive further information about logistics in late summer. Independent Curator P DAS news 1 The newsletter of the DAS is published Historic New England two times a year. Submission deadlines for New York tour 2 Boston, MA 2016 are: March 31 for the spring issue; Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia Georgia tour 3 September 30 for the fall issue. Send mate- Led by Dennis Carr, Cover image: rial to: Exhibition curator and Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative Arts Book review 5 Ruth E. Thaler-Carter, and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA) High chest of drawers, mahogany; drawer linings, chestnut, eastern white pine, DAS Newsletter Coordinator Acquisitions 6 cottonwood (upper case: sides and backs, cottonwood; bottoms, chestnut; Saturday, October 8, 2016 2500 East Avenue, #7K Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Wilmington, DE wide drawer in lower case: sides, cottonwood; back and bottom, chestnut; Rochester, NY 14610 Events 9 lower side drawers in lower case: sides and backs, chestnut; bottoms, eastern or: white pine; middle drawer in lower case: sides, cottonwood; back and bottom, [email protected] Rhode Island Furniture and Its Makers, 1650–1830 News 10 eastern white pine); eastern white pine; chestnut; replaced cleats on bot- Led by Patricia E. Kane, The DAS website may provide informa- Friends of the American Arts Curator of American Decorative Arts People 13 tom of upper case, southern yellow pine; 225.7 x 100.1 x 56.2 cm, 1759, John tion about events that fall between issues. Yale University Art Gallery Exhibitions 18 Townsend, American (1732–1809). Photo: Yale University Art Gallery. In Art Saturday, November 12, 2016 and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830 (see Exhibi- Newsletter design by Plum Crane. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT tions, Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut). All content © Decorative Arts Society.

Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/1 DAS explores “Gilded” exhibition at the Met DAS enjoys visit to Georgia sites

On April 9, the By Whitney White, Museum Manager, Pebble Hill Plantation, Thomasville, GA (http://www.pebblehill.com) DAS toured the Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, Curator Dale Couch leading a NY), led by DAS private tour for DAS partici- pants at the Georgia Museum Moira of Art. Gallagher and Nicholasofficers Vin- Spiral staircase at the High Mu- cent. seum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.

DAS officers Moira Gallagher (above, left) and Nicholas Vincent (above, right) of the Metro- politan Museum of Art lead DAS tour of Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age exhibition (below). The Henry D. Green Symposium presentations were made by master’s Photos: Stephanie Tegnazian. to the Henry D. Green Symposium at the University of Georgia (Athens) and doctoral students. It is always nice I(Athens,n reflecting GA), on High the recentMuseum DAS of visits Art opened with a keynote lecture by to see the next generation of scholars in- (Atlanta, GA) and two private homes Robert M. Hicklin Jr., proprietor of terested in the decorative arts and learn (Newnan, GA), it is hard to believe we the Charleston Renaissance Gallery, what research projects have drawn did everything in just four days. The entitled “The Story of Southern in Pic- experience was packed with educational tures.” Over his career, he has traveled In her presentation on “Women information and provided networking in search of particular works of interest inthem a Man’s to the World: field. Louise Dubose and opportunities with others interested in and shared personal stories about how the Battleship Georgia Silver,” Debo- all things decorative arts. he came to acquire many of his pieces. rah Prosser, PhD, dean of Libraries, The trip started with a wonder- During the opening reception at the University of North Georgia, reviewed ful guided tour of the High Museum of Georgia Museum of Art, Dale Couch, President Theodore Roosevelt’s efforts Art with Sarah Schleuning, curator of curator of Decorative Arts at the Henry to improve relations between the North Decorative Arts and Design. The museum D. Green Center for the Study of the and South. He decided there would be a boasts more than 2,000 decorative arts Decorative Arts, led a gallery tour. A Georgia House (patterned after Bulloch objects dating from 1640 to the present spectacular desk with bookcase made Hall, where his mother had spent much day. Despite living in South Georgia and in the Augusta, GA, area was a highlight of her childhood), and Georgia Day, cel- being a native Georgian, I must admit I of the tour. The extremely tall piece is ebrated at the Jamestown Exposition had not been to the High in years. To tour “visual proof of the beauty of southern in 1907. the museum with this knowledgeable furniture,” according to Couch. The Mrs. Louise Dubose believed guide was such a special experience. height of the cabinet was designed in “there is a key patriotic role for women” A newly commissioned work in the proportion to the rising ceiling heights and took on the project of securing the lobby by contemporary artist Molly in southern homes that were meant to presentation silver service for the USS Hatch consists of 456 painted dinner accommodate the hot climate. The piece Georgia. Believing in the populist move- plates. The High commissioned the art- is of river birch, beautifully stained to ment mentality that all should give to- ist to create the work based on inspira- look like mahogany, with three-part wards this endeavor, not just a wealthy tion drawn from two Chelsea Factory inlay design in the Charleston style. few, she created various projects from plates from ca. 1755 that are part of the Both Friday and Saturday were 1902 to 1907 to raise the approximately permanent collection. What an eye- - $8,000 necessary for the purchase of the ern decorative arts topics from a wide Gorham set. The service was presented the museum. varietyfilled with of perspectives. lectures on various A few ofsouth the to President Roosevelt, who arrived at catching exhibit as one first walks into 2/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/3 Book review History of blue-and-white porcelain comes to light Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age, edited by Karina H. Corrigan, Jan Van Campen and Femke Dier- cks, with Janet C. Blyberg, with essays by Karina H. Corrigan, Jan Van Campen, Femke Diercks, Jos Gommans, Martine Gos- selink, Pieter Roelofs and Jaap Van Der Veen. Peabody Essex Museum/Rijksmuseum and Yale University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780300212877 (hard cover) ISBN 9780875772295 (soft cover). 356 pages with 112 illustrations hard cover or paperback. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age. (Corrigan is H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art, Peabody Essex Museum; van Camen, curator of Asian Export Art, Rijksmuseum; Diercks, curator of European Ceramics, Rijksmuseum; and Blyberg, assistant curator for Exhibitions and Research, Peabody Essex Museum.) Reviewed by Eliza de Sola Mendes, Independent Decorative Arts Scholar n a recent visit to the Blooming- Luxury is what the maritime Dutch A view of University of Georgia campus, Athens, Georgia. Pair of turned chairs, soft maple posts, hickory rounds, split oak seats. Unidentified maker, dale’s Wedding Registry in New explorers who took over the earlier Por- ca. 1790–1820. Gift of Denny and Peggy Galis in honor of Sarah Mathews Stay. OYork City, I overheard a discus- tuguese routes, now under the banner sion by a young lady soon to be wed, of the East India Company or Vereni- the Jamestown Exposition on the USS erty in Newnan. The house managed to the itinerary. It had been slated for de- sitting with her mother and the wed- gde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), Georgia. The service was returned to survive with no damage to the interior molition and was moved to the current ding consultant. Asked by the registry created as a lifestyle for a new middle the state after the decommissioning of despite sitting empty for several years. owners’ farm property about 15 years assistant what kind of china she wished class as they searched for seasonings the battleship in 1920. Today, the punch One of the most remarkable features is to look at, she immediately remarked such as peppercorns, cinnamon, clove bowl is on display in the reception hall its original wood graining and marble- mantels are intact. Much of the furni- with great emphasis: “Oh, ‘Blue and and nutmeg. of the Georgia Governor’s Mansion, izing. The work has held up in amazing tureago. Allis mid-18th-century of the original floors, American. doors and The White’—Chinese style, just like my The VOC, formed in 1602, created condition considering its age of almost owners’ graciousness was a perfect way mother’s.” Little did this newly engaged six separate divisions in six cities and lecture prompted me to want to include 200 years. to end the trip. young woman likely know of the great atypically tour of thefilled mansion with fresh the flowers.next time Her I am The grounds, designed by William This trip was a wonderful educa- historic legacy and fascinating story be- company. At its peak, VOC would have in Atlanta. Pauley tional experience, but it also provided hind this concept in porcelain (let alone 40,000can be considered Dutch and otherthe first European joint stock and We spent Friday evening tour- architect in Georgia, are equally spec- an opportunity for getting to know the porcelain’s origins itself), that she so ing and enjoying dinner at the Taylor tacular:, athe boxwood first professional garden, rose landscape beds, other members of the DAS. This was my 100 ships and over 600 outposts. Their Grady House, which was declared a Na- summer garden and a swimming pool. - “blue and white.” tradersAsian workers traveled with in India, a fleet Ceylon, of more Malay- than tional Historic Landmark in 1976. The We also were able to add a second pri- perfectly The connotation defined with is just as clear three today words: sia, the Moluccas, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, home, built ca. 1844 by General Robert vate home, also of the 19th century, to willfirst certainlyexperience not attending be my last! the sympo for those who love porcelain as it would Vietnam, China and Japan. In addition Taylor and his wife, is operated today sium and my first trip with the DAS, but have been for a young Dutch bride to spices, they also brought back tea, by the Junior League of Athens for tours of Amsterdam in the 17th and 18th cotton, silk, saltpeter, opium, precious and events. centuries in regard to the boatloads of - stones, sapper wood, pewter, pearls, Saturday found the group visiting fabulous Chinese porcelains, as well as semble. The catalog has been written by copper, gold, silver and—of course—the two private residences that are a part other exotic treasures from the Orient, a team The of exhibition 30 international took five scholars, years to with as blue-and-white porcelains that would of The Hill, where Lee Epting began that also were becoming available for entries for 150 works of art, and in- be mimicked by Delftware in a far dif- creating an “orphanage” for endangered purchase for European homes then. cludes expert studies of Dutch and Asian ferent form and substance. Delftware historic homes in 1976. Today, some 17 What all of this conjures up even paintings, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, would develop its own audience, mak- structures have been relocated to this today, hundreds of years later, we can furniture, silver, diamonds and jewelry, ing it still popular today. area. The evening began at the Thur- now explore in this beautiful exhibition including objects from 69 lenders from What objects of desire does the mond-Barks-Knowlton House, built volume Asia in Amsterdam. It is grandly 14 countries. The purpose is to give us catalog highlight from the exhibition ca. 1818 and ended at the Donnald- “covered” with a glorious blue-and- a colorful and engaging picture of life as illustrative of that life of luxury? The Epting House, ca. 1800. The southern white porcelain illustration from a and art in the cities of both Amsterdam curatorial team had to choose very care- dinner fare, cooked in part on an open tin-glazed earthenware Delft plaque and Batavia (Jakarta), the 17th-century fully to craft the picture of the period hearth, completed the overall timeless of 1670–1690. The theme continues Dutch trade center in Asia. they wished to show us, with more than feel one received from visiting these throughout the catalog with numer- The book delves into the relation- 200 works in the show itself. historic homes. ships of the Dutch maritime trade in We see the ever-present blue-and- Sunday brought about a real treat objects and in paintings that give us many settlements throughout Asia — white china, poised on uneven planes for the group: visits to two collections fascinatingous examples glimpses among into many the other life of fine including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, of oriental carpet folds, peeking out of at private residences in Newnan. One a 17th-century Dutch home. It is an China, Malaysia and Japan — and paintings on lavish tables of curiosities house, designed by Daniel Pratt, was impressive visual beginning, leading to provides historical documents with nu- in still lifes that seem hardly “still,” such originally constructed in Milledgeville, the powerful scholarly series of essays merous maps, travel sketches and print as in paintings by Willem Kalf (1619– GA, ca. 1820s. In 1970, the present and objects that bring to life this great illustrations that enhance the exhibi- 1693), Willem Claesz (1594–1680) and owner had it moved to his family’s prop- DAS Georgia trip participants and host, after the tour of a private home and gardens. period in Dutch history. tion’s selections. Jan Jansz (1605/1606–1652). Swirling

4/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/5 Collection. It was designed by the ous work, depicts a life-size, standing based on a belief in Tantric Buddhism, Campanas and manufactured by Lasvit, female wrapped in drapery with an where necklaces made from skulls are Acquisitions a Czech glass manufacturer specializ- ombre tone inspired by ancient Tanagra symbols of emptiness and the illusion of ing in high-end and custom design for reality. furnishings, interiors and architecture. Schobinger also gave the museum a Corning Museum of Glass Ählström’s designs were techni- Made of colorless glass, the chandelier terracotta figurines. - (CMoG; NY) has acquired: cally quite different from the cased is mold-blown and cased with colored posed of a found glass bottleneck, two • The and cameo-cut glass typical of Swedish hot-applied glass cane. The collection commercialnew work, Glassfly eyeglass Ring, lenses that for is thecom Nouveau production — the earliest art nouveau production at the turn of was inspired by the candies sold in wings and Akoya pearls for the eyes. example √ a rare of 20th-century example of Swedish Swedish Art glass the 20th century, but her use of the popular markets in Brazil and the way Dallas Museum of Art (TX) in the museum’s collection, designed marquetrie de verre (glass marquetry) that colored glass appeared to melt like has received a bequest, under the will by Betzy Ählström (Swedish, 1857– technique, and her choice of the theme candy, which the Campanas observed of long-time • The supporter Dorace Fich- of water lilies, executed in an impres- tenbaum, saying the museum could women designers in Europe. sionistic, painterly style, was directly choose works from her collection after 1934), Although one of thewomen first workedacknowledged in many during their first visit to Lasvit. her death. Among the 138 works the European glass factories, their jobs and manufacturer Emile Gallé (French, museum chose are pieces of African art 1846–1904).influenced by French art glass designer and Native Americans ceramics. glass rather than design and produc- Fernan- Historic Deerfield, Inc., has generally involved processing finished do and Humberto Campana, who acquired the ca. 1700 desk owned and women in Europe, with Anna Boberg founded √ Sphere the Estudio Chandelier Campana by (Sao signed • by the Reverend Nehemiah Bull (Swedish,tion. Ählström 1864–1935), was one ofto thebe hired first as Paulo, Brazil) in 1983. Inspired by Bra- a designer in a glassworks. She only zilian street life and carnival culture, worked at the Reijmyre glassworks the brothers began their practice by gunsmith(1701–1740) John of Partridge Westfield, Bull MA, (1731–who was for a brief time, from 1901 to 1902, but Marquetry Vase with Water Lilies, cased, making furniture from scrap and waste 1813).the father of Deerfield blacksmith and her design of the marquetry vase with blown, hot-worked and hot-applied decora- products such as cardboard, cloth and water lilies was one of the Reijmyre tive elements; H: 21.3 cm, D (max): 15.1 wood scraps, plastic tubes, stuffed toys, the desk by comparing a signature on products exhibited in 1902 at the cm. Betzy Ählström, Reijmyre Glasbruk AB, and aluminum wire. the bottom The museum of two verified drawers ownership to the writ- of Exposition Internationale des Arts Rejmyre, Sweden, about 1902. Gift of the The museum commissioned the ing in an account book and journal of Ennion Society. Décoratifs Modernes in Turin, Italy. chandelier from the brothers’ Candy Nehemiah Bull, which are owned by the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Associa- silver and echoing swirls of citrus peels Adriaen Coorte’s (1659/1664–1707) virtue from the Orient and inspired by tion gave the luxury-conscious Amsterdam “Still Life With Seashells” of 1698, and it, we are also treated to a few delec- Nocturne 5, black glass; mold-melted using The desk appears to be a special - others, the shells seem to be depicted table Rembrandt works depicting all lost wax process, grit-blasted, acid-polished. H: commission (Deerfield, designed MA). to store separate ship of masterpieces in blue and white. largely for decorative admiration rather that was transpiring in his Golden Age Sphere Chandelier, Candy Collection, mold- 150 cm, W: 63.5 cm, D: 56 cm. Karen LaMonte, viewer confirmation of their owner - world. There are three etchings and blown and cased; hot-applied glass cane, Czech Republic, 2015. Humberto Campana, Fernando Campana, ers, we also see a marvelous array of Amusingly to us, Cornelis Cor- three drawings in the exhibition. In the Nocturne 5 was cast in three pieces somewhatfiles of papers earlier. and Theprobably turning was style made of Lasvit, Novy Bor, Czech Republic, 2015. Overall foods Next on Chineseto brilliant kraak displays dishes, of includ- flow neliszthan scientific’s (1562–1638) study. “Neptune and catalog, the most interestingly named that join at the waist and knees of the thein Springfield, legs and the MA, brackets in about are 1700 related or D (max): about 83 cm. ing turkey pie, pretzels, cheeses, shell- Amphitrite” of 1616–1638 shows the work by Rembrandt is of 1634’s “Self- to other objects in the same timeframe Portrait as an Oriental Potentate with developed by LaMonte to achieve her Campana design to enter the museum’s vegetables and nuts in paintings that just the way a Dutch VOC trader of desiredfigure. The degree glass of itself color is and a new density, formula collection The Sphere and the Chandelier Contemporary is the Artfirst + couldfish, citrus, remind and a 21st-centuryall manner of millennialfruits, thetwo time mythical might figures have done. examining The Dutch shells robe with a large dagger across his conceived and manufactured using her with Springfield associations. - viewer of the cellphone food shots they Golden Age was unfolding in front chest.a Weapon,” We learn, showing in fact, himself that Rembrandt in flowing now-standard manufacturing process: porary Brazilian design. send out on Facebook. Remarkably, of their eyes, and sometimes even in had a large collection of exotic items, Design Wing’s first example of contem- they are telling their audience a some- their ears, as the painting by Cornelis antiquities and objects of the natural of the underlying body, and second, of motive headlight featuring a pressed what similar status message: “Hey, we de Man (1621–1706), “The Curiosity world, among them Asian objects, and theShe draperymakes her around molds the in body.two stages, Once the first, lead-glass √ a painted lens patented and weathered by John loco L. Gil- have enough money to eat this glorious Seller” of 1650–1700, where a young he had 60 pieces of Indian hand-made composition is completed, she uses the liland (British, about 1782–1868) for luxury meal, take a look and, by the boy listens with fascination, holding weapons. lost wax casting process to create the the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company on way, notice all the high-end details.” one of these exotic shells to his ear This is certainly a landmark August 10, 1852. It was reportedly used There are so many fascinating as a group of customers surrounds on the Housatonic Railroad. objects of note as you roam the catalog, the animated dealer. Mounted shells for the period of the Golden Age in jewelerfinal glass Bernhard sculpture. Schobinger , the each telling the tale of the times in an are also in the catalog, such as an thevolume Netherlands in the field and of would decorative look quitearts 30th √ Rakow “Tantric Commission. Object” by SwissSchobinger studio American glass artist Karen LaMonte, scavenges for materials unrelated to individual and yet, in a collective way, enormous mounted turbo shell with a elegant on her coffee table. √ Nocturne 5 by contemporary adding to the story. Japanese-style gilded silver mounting, attributed to Eliza de Sola Mendes is an inde- traditional jewelry. “Tantric Object” is Bull desk. made from the bottoms of old Swiss The Reverend Nehemiah Bull was dressing gowns (Japonse rokken) of In- Daniel Schilperoort in 1607. Even the pendent decorative arts scholar and the first American artist to work in the monumental glass casting. LaMonte glass poison bottles, shaped like skulls, dian chintz and others of Japanese silk dollhouse of Petronella Oortman, of published author who has worked in glass foundries at Železný Brod using are depicted for the Dutch burgomas- Amsterdam (c. 1686–1710), from the museums in the U.S. and abroad as a cut, and decorated with gold lacquer. a colleague of the Reverend Edward process and usually works in translu- ters, as seen in a painting by Michiel van collection in the Rijksmuseum, holds a curator and registrar, as well as in auc- The end plate displays the molded word Taylorordained of inWestfield Westfield, who in 1726. was bornHe was in centproduces colorless figurative glass. artNocturne with the 5, lostdarker wax Musscher of 1686 in his oil-on-canvas miniature cabinet of miniscule shells. tion houses. Her specialty is in antique “GIFT,” which in English means “a pres- in color and sentiment than her previ- of the VOC director Johannes Hudde. In In addition to many objects of dollhouses, miniatures and toys. ent”; in German, “poison.” The piece is in the early 1670s, groomed Bull as his England in the 1640s, came to Westfield

6/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/7 Progress Vase, a silver-plated urn made ing the diversity of characters in Sogo 1726 and died in 1729. Taylor is also re- at the Reed & Barton factory (Taunton, bò, a puppet tradition performed in memberedsuccessor in for the his Westfield poetry and pulpit journals, after MA) in the 1870s, that will be exhibited south-central Mali that translates as “the Events which all had to be stored somewhere, at some point in the future. The compa- animals come forth,” inspired by the ev- such as the Bull Desk. ny’s papers will go to the Harvard Busi- eryday world, often in a humorous way. Annual Carder Steuben Symposium The desk could have originally been ness School and Rhode Island School Corning Museum of Glass owned by Taylor, since few people in of Design. Corning, NY Bull’s realm would have commissioned Newark www.cmog.com a special design of this sort. Taylor’s Museum (NJ) have increased with the The Dundas Sofa, gilt September 15–17, 2016 1729 probate inventory lists “1 Studdy acquisition • Jewelry of holdingsmanuscripts of the from the pine and beech with Table” at 10 shillings, which could refer Newark-based jewelry company Kre- later silk upholstery, Designed by Rob- to Bull’s desk. mentz & Co., creating a comprehensive ert Adam, made by Japanese American Na- jewelry design archive that is accessible Thomas Chippen- tional Museum (Los Angeles, CA) has to the public. dale, c. 1765. MFAH acquired • The several lots of objects from Founded by George Krementz, a purchase funded by World War II internment camps. Plan- German immigrant raised in Indiana the Brown Foundation ning is still underway for how these with relatives in Newark, the company Accessions Endow- items will be conserved and displayed. was the largest and longest-lived of all ment Fund. The Metropolitan Museum of of Newark’s jewelry manufacturers, Art (New York, NY) has acquired “one operating in the city from 1866 to 2009. of the • most important examples of Krementz produced a range of jewelry goldsmith’s work from colonial Span- in 14-karat gold for the middle-class ish America”: a 17th- to 18th-century market, starting with one-piece col- repoussé and chased gold crown with lar buttons and including brooches, 443 emeralds. bracelets, necklaces, gold-mesh purses, Fee applies. Registration is re- museum in 1999, Rienzi evokes Euro- The Crown of the Virgin of the quired. For more information or to pean houses of the 18th century with Immaculate Conception, known as the The company sold higher-end prod- register, visit cardersteubenclub.org. architecture reminiscent of the Italian “Crown of the Andes,” is a diadem encir- uctscufflinks anonymously and accessories. to upscale jewelry Palladian style, surrounded by period Puppet representing elderly man (Cèkòròba), cled by vinework, set with emerald clus- stores throughout the United States, A Sense of Proportion: Architect- European decorative arts and paintings. unrecorded artist, late 20th century, Mali. Gift Designed Objects, 1650–1950 including Tiffany & Co. The brand was of Peter and Mary Sue Rosen. Details are at mfah.org/rienzisymposium. imperial arches and a cross-bearing orb. known in the retail world because of its Blue Aurene Vase, Frederick Carder, Steuben Rienzi’s Biennial Symposium Theters crownin the shape was made of flowers, to adorn topped a statue by “gold overlay” jewelry, which they pro- Division, Corning Glass Works (Corning, NY), Museum of Fine Arts Houston Annual Seminar on Glass in Monrovia, Liberia, circa 1969 that 1920–1929. Gift of Frederick Carder. Houston, TX in the cathedral of Popayán in the Span- duced from the early 20th century until celebrates √ a factory the impact print textile of “swinging collected ’60s” Corning Museum of Glass ish viceroyalty of New Granada (now the family sold the business in 1997. Every year, the Carder Steuben September 23–24, 2016 Corning, NY fashion on the continent, part of a larger Club holds a symposium on Steuben The biennial symposium A Sense Colombia). It was constructed in two In 2013, Richard (Rick) Krementz, donation of 25 factory print textiles. It www.cmog.com former chairman of the board and great- glass, particularly that made during the of Proportion: Architect-Designed October 16–17, 2016 era of Frederick Carder. The sympo- Objects, 1650–1950, presented by 1660, and the arches second, around grandson of the founder, made a gift to collected by the museum, an example The Corning Museum of Glass’s sections—the diadem first, in around sium offers lectures and presentations Rienzi, the house museum for European 1770. A number of votive crowns from the museum’s Library and Archives of ofcomplements weaving by onea Dyula of the artist first from textiles Côte 55th annual seminar focuses on the the colonial period survive in cathedral approximately 150 objects, comprising by experts on the glass of Frederick decorative arts of the Museum of Fine work of Leopold Blaschka and his d’Ivoire acquired by museum founder Carder, including museum and library Arts, Houston, focuses on objects that treasuries in Spanish America, but few the company’s complete design archives John Cotton Dana in 1928. son Rudolf, and the exhibition Fragile are of comparable size and quality. from 1864 to 1969. scholars, glass artists and designers, embody or extend an architect’s ideas Legacy: The Marine Invertebrate Glass The Crown of the Andes has been A second donation of archival ma- glass dealers, scientists, and collectors. or esthetic. Models of Leopold and Rudolf Blasch- exhibiting items connected to Shirley Members of the club often par- Scholars discuss objects made for privately owned in the United States terials came to the Library and Archives Temple • Various Black institutions. The Smithsonian will be Insti- ka (see Exhibitions). since 1936 and only rarely been on pub- in 2015 thanks to Emily Rebmann, a ticipate by showing their collections particular spaces, used to explore new From 1863 to 1890, the Blaschkas tution (Washington, DC) has received or sharing some of their specialized design sources and intended to be part lic view. It is an anchor for the develop- graduate student in the Winterthur the donation of her creamy-enamel crafted glass models of marine inver- ment of a new area of collection at the Program in American Material Cul- expertise. Additional programming and of an integrated space. An example is a tebrates in their studio in Dresden, childhood typewriter from collector exhibition tours are also done in con- recent acquisition, the nine-foot-long Met and signals the museum’s renewed ture at the University of Delaware. She Steve Shoboroff, who purchased it in Germany, and shipped them to muse- interest in Latin American art. It was a junction with exhibitions concurrently Dundas Sofa, designed by Robert Adam ums and universities around the world an auction of Temple Black’s costumes, on display at the Corning Museum (1728–1792), neoclassical architect of common practice in the Spanish world Cleveland Museum of Art (OH) and dolls and other souvenirs. The Santa for study and display. Cornell University is now the engagement officer at the of Glass. The resources of the Rakow the 18th century, and made by Thomas to bestow lavish gifts, including jewels Monica History Museum (CA) will (Ithaca, NY) acquired 570 Blaschka and sumptuous garments, on sacred a master’s thesis using the Krementz Research Library are also featured. Chippendale (1718–1779), the English models as a teaching collection in 1885. images of the Virgin to petition for her archive;was the firsther topicgraduate was studentmen’s jewelry. to write While the symposium is focused on furniture maker. It is from the only suite Presentations explore collecting; and red-and-gold polka-dot dress. The the glass of Frederick Carder, program- of furniture known to be a collaboration intercession or to give thanks for it. A number of rare books about Museumexhibit outfits of Fine such Arts, as a Boston red plaid (MA) dress teaching from models; creating models Museum of Lacquer Art jewelry that served as design sources ming also covers other subjects related between them. for teaching, conservation and pho- hosts an exhibition featuring gifts of to Carder Steuben glass, such ascontem- Rienzi houses European paintings, (Münster, Germany) has acquired a for Krementz & Co. also have been a smocked red silk dress and coral- tography; and a demonstration of the Dutch • The experiment with lacquered metal transferred to the library’s Rare Book porary manufacturers, care and conser- sculpture, furniture, porcelain and silver Blaschkas’ lampworking techniques. trimmed blue dress, along with research vation of glass, glass photography, glass from the mid-17th through mid-19th from the early 1600s. Collection. into Temple Black’s dressmaker, Elise of To register, go to http://www.cmog. technology and glass color, among other centuries. Built in 1953 as a residence org/programs/lectures-seminars/annual- Museum of Fine Arts, Other recent gifts include: Hollywood. Boston (MFA; MA) has acquired the - topics. and opened to the public as a house seminar-on-glass/registration • The √ a group of puppets represent 8/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/9 an invoice for a “work table with ivory

News an expensive sum at the time. fittings” valued at 24 Spanish dollars —- Armory - ered the sheen and variegation of the gold Adecoration disfiguring also varnish has been that removed.had cov • The (New York, NY) has other techniques. The Kress FoundaDetroit Institute of Art The sewing table, made in Canton Art Institute of Chicago, invested in an $8 million restoration of Tiffany - tion funded the project. (now Guangzhou), China, around 1849, High Museum of Art, Los Angeles several features and rooms of its 1881 • The (MI) is pierced and carved with dragons, County • The Museum of Art (LACMA), Mu- design, such as glass embed has received a $1.7 million bequest Elizabeth Verdow lotuses and lion’s paw feet as well as - seum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), ded into wood carvings and a Tiffany from the estate of retired teacher and Flagler Museum embellished with layers of lacquer and and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art plaster and blue-glass mosaic over the museum volunteer - . Elizagold decoration. Part of this table’s his Brown Clarkson have announced the second class of fireplace. One of only a few surviving • The Pottier & Stymus (Palm tory involves the woman who owned it, fellows designated for the Andrew W. interiors by Tiffany includes metallic Beach, FL) has restored several seat (1824–1907) Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial designs painted on California redwood ing pieces by . The of Gloucester, MA, and her narrative of - Fellowship Program. ceiling timbers; Tiffany windows with Henryitems are Flagler among pieces that museum Mary loss and devotion on the high seas. The fellowship provides special- red glass that turns blue in the sun at a Lilyfounder and oil and railroad magnate Flagler Unlike many women of her genera certain angle; and dragons, lizards, sea and his third wife, Carrére tion, she did not receive this object as - students across the United States who serpents, fighting birds, and Greek and & Hastings , bought ca. 1902. At the a souvenir from a seafaring relative or exemplifyized training historically in the curatorial underrepresent- field to Roman battle scenes on the ceiling. Stanford White time, the architecture firm of Whitehall Jamespurchase it in a retail shop. She A. Clarkson trav Objects in glass, The original designs Louis Comfort Tiffanywere by was completing the Beaux-- eled with her ship captain husband, Marathon support the goal of promoting pluralis- ceramics, wood , early in his career, Arts mansion, called , that (c. 1816–1849), ed groups in the curatorial field and and more at the tic museums. Milwaukee Art Candaceand Wheeler , just as he Flagler had commissioned as a wed- aboard the to Java, the The two-year fellowship provides Museum. moved from painting to making glass. ding present. Philippines, and Canton, China, in hands-on experience in a museum set- , one of the first The Louis XV-style sofas, ban 1849. Her husband died on the journey ting. Fellows are matched with mu- American interior designers, worked quettes and armchairs have mahogany home. She left the ship at St. Helena seum curatorial mentors. Ascanwith the textiles and wallpapers. The Mergenthaler, and beech frames with sculpted leaves, with her husband’s body, where she The program is supported by a inrestoration Herzog &work de Meuron is being overseen by flowers, scrollwork and spiderweb lived in the American consulate until Baltimore Museum a senior partner of Art motifs. The tapestry upholstery shows a lead casket was prepared for his Foundation. The partner museums . courtiers in pastoral landscapes.F. Carey Howlett remains. hopefive-year to host pilot-phase 2016 Summer grant from Academies the • The The seats were made in the 19th- as a part of this program, and encour- (MD) has raised nearly $80.7 million century style by , age potential applicants to check recently, added almost 4,000 donations a furniture conservator. The team the institutions’ websites in coming to its collection and completed a $428 - has spent about a year on the pieces, months for more information. million renovation.Corning Museum of replicating missing feet on chairs and - Fellows in the decorative arts for Glass • The Contemporary Art + De adding glues; consolidants and 22- - the 2015–2017 program are: tor, Aimée Froom, curator of Arts of American art galleries, European art sign Wing of the karat gold to the gilding; and stabiliz High Museum of Art: Nina the Islamic Worlds. galleries, and galleries devoted to 20th- (CMoG; NY) became LEED Silver ing and repairing upholstery with net Goodall, University of Georgia; curato- and 21st-century design. Certified in February, based on the ting, tinted paper and fabric painted Frick Collection to rial mentor, √ Katherine Jentleson, Mer- Nicholas Olivares, Kansas City Art Minneapolis Institute of building’s water and energy efficiency resemble tapestry. rie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Institute √ Nelson-Atkins; curatorial mentor,sMuseum Colinof Art: Art (MN) has been refreshing its 16 and its reduction of greenhouse gas • The Stephen (New York, K. Self-taught Art, and Karuna Srikureja, Mackenzie, senior curator of Chinese period • The rooms by upgrading furnishings emissions. The building uses SORAA andNY) has received 450 portrait medals Janie Woo Scher Emory University; curatorial mentor, art, and Isabel Vargas, Kansas City Art and exploring the artists and patrons LED lighting, which reduces energy use orning Museum of Glass as a promised gift from Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Cura- Institute; curatorial mentor, Kimberly who made those rooms possible. Spac- for lighting by up to 76 percent. - . The museum tor of Modern and Contemporary Art. Masteller, Jeanne McCray Beals Cura- es include formal 18th-century parlors, • The C plans to display the medals in their Canan Cem, University tor of South and Southeast Asian Art. a 1910s hallway designed by Frank (NY) has released its first-ever scholar own gallery and will present them in Fuller Craft Museum of California, Los Angeles; curatorial Milwaukee Art Museum Lloyd Wright and a 1920s kitchen in a ly electronic resource, “The Techniques Wil- an exhibition, with a catalog, in 2017. mentor, √ LACMA: Sharon Takeda, senior curator (WI) reopened to the public in Novem- German apartment building. Needle- liamof Renaissance Venetian Glassworking,” Gudenrath • The Joan Pearson Wat- and department head of costume and ber 2015 • The after a multi-year, $34 million work and botanical studies showing created by scholar and artist Murano kins(Brockton, MA) has received a gift of $1 Revocable Trust textiles, and Audrey Min, University renovation project. Two buildings on the role of women in salon culture . It details techniques million from the Sewing table, pierced and carved with drag- of California, Los Angeles; curatorial the museum’s campus — the 1957 will be on view in two rooms salvaged used to make glass at , the for its efforts ons, lotuses and lion’s paw feet; embellished mentor, Stephen Little, Florence and Eero Saarinen-designed War Memo- from early-18th-century British homes. glassmaking island in Venice, between - at continuing Historicto Deerfield enhance its collection with layers of lacquer and gold decoration; Harry Sloan Curator of Chinese Art, and rial Center and 1975 David Kahler-de- Artifacts from Cherokee tribes of South ca. 1500 and 1700. Descriptive text, and exhibition of contemporary craft. contains 18 inner compartments, four with Department Head, Chinese and Korean signed addition — have been restored Carolina and African-born slaves will lacquered covers and others with carved ivory 360-degree photography and high-def E. • Rhodes and Leona B. (MA) has Carpenter Art . be on view in rooms from a Charlottes- containers for silk thread and needles, and inition video provide interpretations Foundationreceived a $22,690 grant from the Emilia Duno, Rice space for art, and a new east addition ville house of the 1770s. of historical Venetian glassmaking assortment of ivory sewing birds, winding RenVenetian.cmog.org spools and shuttles. Silk work bag originally University; curatorial mentor, Mari includesand reconfigured another specialto provide exhibition more Other museums and historic techniques not known for centuries. to support conservation of William- on a sliding panel on the underside has been Carmen √ MFAH: Ramírez , Wortham Curator houses are undertaking similar renova- presents more stowna Chinese export lacquerware sewing Art Conservation Center recreated in red silk by conservators. of Latin American Art. Mai Kolkailah, feet, display the museum’s permanent tion and restoration projects, includ- than 40 narrated demonstrations that table. Conservators at the - University of Houston; curatorial men- collection,gallery. Four with floors, decorative at 150,000 arts squarein the ing Gracie Mansion (New York, NY); illustrate the recreation of 25 objects (MA) in the Corning collection, along with 10 carried out the treatment over a year. 10/Spring 2016 Newsletter Her husband’s account book in of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/11 People Appointments People Under Heaven: Jerusalem the end of 2015. She had been senior Glenn Adamson has stepped 1000–1400, with her Met colleague adviser to the former president of the down as Nanette L. Laitman Director of Melanie Holcomb. Past exhibitions in- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New the Museum • of Arts and Design (MAD; clude Enamels of Limoges (1996), and York, NY) and oversaw the permanent New York, NY) and plans to work on Prague, The Crown of Bohemia (2005). exhibition New York at Its Core, which exhibition, research and institutional She inaugurated a program of focus opens in November. development projects. He will continue exhibitions at the Cloisters with The Seth Feman, manager of Inter- to work with the museum’s curatorial Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chess- pretation at the Chrysler Museum of team, including on an exhibition of the men from the Isle of Lewis (2011) and Art (Norfolk, • VA) since 2012, has been ceramic works of Peter Voulkos. Search for the Unicorn (2013). named curator of exhibitions and acting Adamson created the position of Boehm has published on subjects curator of photography. Windgate Research Curator in collabo- relating to her exhibition projects and Feman joined the Chrysler just be- ration with the Bard Graduate Center, research on the Met’s permanent col- fore it closed for expansion, renovation to further enhance the scholarship of lection. Between 2012 and 2015, she and the reinstallation of the collection. Sugar bowl and cover (left), porcelain with MAD’s publications and exhibitions. He served as director of Curatorial Stud- As manager of Interpretation, he over- printed, enamel and gilt decoration, 1817; also expanded MAD’s artist-in-residence ies, a joint program of the Metropolitan saw the development of labels, intro- made by partnership of Dagoty and Honoré, program by engaging younger artists Museum of Art and the Institute of ductory panels and other educational Paris, 1816–1820, from the state service for from traditionally underrepresented Fine Arts, New York University. She materials and is credited with creating James Monroe (president 181–1825). Gift of Platter, teacup, custard cup, dinner plate, dessert plate, soup plate from 1861 State Dinner and communities. has shared her research in lectures and an accessible, jargon-free standard for the McNeil Americana Collection. Dessert Service for Abraham Lincoln (president 1861–1865) with wine goblet, 1861–1882 (be- Robert Cundall, currently MAD courses at the Courtauld Institute, communicating scholarly information low). Greenpoint Flint Glass Works (Brooklyn, NY), 1860–1882; ordered from and decorated by E. managing director, will serve as interim Musée du Louvre, Edinburgh Univer- about the Chrysler Collection. V. Haughwout & Co., New York, 1857–1870. Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection. director while the board seeks a perma- sity, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Dar al- In his new role, Feman is respon- nent replacement for Adamson. Athar al-Islamiyyah (Kuwait), among sible for the study, care, interpretation house museums in Newport, RI; and and glass used by American presidents Tacoma Art Museum (WA) Christopher Bedford, director others. and presentation of works of art in the elsewhere. The Metropolitan Mu- from George Washington to Ronald has received 225 works as gifts from of the Rose Art Museum (Brandeis Boehm holds a PhD and MA.from museum’s collection and incoming loan • The seum of Art (New York, NY) recently Reagan and is the most comprehensive Becky Benaroya, widow of Jack University, • NJ), has been named director the Institute of Fine Arts, New York shows. installed a dressing room for the 1880s collection of its kind on public view Benaroya, including objects in glass by of the Baltimore Art Museum (MD), University, and BA from Wellesley Col- John D.M. (Jack) Green has been that was created for Arabella Wor- other than the White House and the northwestern and international artists. succeeding Doreen Bolger, who retired lege. She began her career at the Met as appointed deputy director for collec- sham, who became an arts patron. Smithsonian Institution. She also gave almost $14 million to in 2015. Bedford also has been named a curatorial assistant in the Department tions, • research and exhibitions at the Recently discovered furniture made by The tablewares illustrates chang- the museum for a new gallery. Olson commissioner for the U.S. Pavilion at the of Medieval Art in 1983, was promoted CMOG. He comes to the museum from George A. Schastey, designer of the ing styles and forms of ceramics and Kundig (Seattle, WA) will design the 2017 Venice Biennale. to curator in 1998 and assigned to the the Oriental Institute Museum (OIM; Worsham townhouse, is on display. glass. The installation includes exam- 7,390-square-foot extension, which Before joining the Rose, Bedford Cloisters in 2008. Chicago, IL), where he was chief cura- Concerts have featured a piano deco- ples from each of the 15 state services is expected to open in fall 2018. The was in curatorial positions at the Genevieve Cortinovis has been tor. Green will assist in the strategic purchased between 1817 and 1968 funds will also go to an endowment Wexner Center for the Arts (Colum- promoted to assistant curator of Deco- leadership of the museum and manage nymphs, made by Shastey and com- and to support a dedicated curator. bus, OH), Los Angeles County Museum rative • Arts and Design at the St. Louis the collections, exhibitions, education, rated with carved flowers, ribbons and missioned for William Clark, a thread House, along with tablewares used by Yale Center for British of Art (LACMA; CA) and J. Paul Getty Art Museum (MO). She wrote in the St. conservation, digital, publications, and for official entertaining at the White manufacturer in Newark, NJ. presidents and their families for pri- Art (New Haven, CT) has reopened Museum (Los Angeles, CA). Louis Modern catalog about the city’s science departments, as well as the • The Museum of Modern Art vate occasions, or owned by individual after completing the third phase of Barbara Drake Boehm has been contributions to modernism, particu- Rakow Research Library and The (New York, NY) has revised its plan for a multi-year building conservation named the Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior larly in areas of sculpture, stained glass Studio. • The expansion, with plans to undertake the project. More than 500 works from the Curator • for the Met Cloisters of the and textiles. She also curated the com- presidents and first ladies before or $400 million project in three phases so Speed Art Museum (India- center’s holdings, largely the gift of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New plementary recent exhibition Blow-Up: after holding office. the museum can remain open through- napolis, IN) re-opened to the public institution’s founder, Paul Mellon, are York, NY), a newly created position Graphic Abstraction in 1960s Design. • The out the process. The project will add on March 12, 2016. The Speed also on display in the newly renovated and that will support C. Griffith Mann, the Cortinovis holds a master’s degree about 50,000 square feet of exhibition received a $1 million gift from Brown- Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge in the history of decorative arts, design space and replace a staircase from Forman Corporation as part of its The reinstallation traces the rela- of the Medieval Department and the and material culture from the Bard reconfigured galleries. 1939 that had been removed. capital campaign. tionship between art and Britain’s im- Cloisters, by overseeing collections and Graduate Center and a bachelor’s de- Philadelphia Museum of San Francisco Museum of perial ambitions from the 16th century program design and implementation for gree in art history from Barnard College. Art (PA) has opened the McNeil Ameri- Modern Art (CA) reopened on May 14 to the present and reveals how often the Cloisters. She will help lead strate- She joined the museum as a research • The • The can Presidential China Gallery, featur- after adding a 10-story, $305 million the story of art in Britain focuses on a gic planning, project management and assistant in 2012, after working with ing the collection of American presi- new building designed by Mario Botta narrative of international exchange and operational budget development, and traditional weavers, dyers and printers dential china donated to the museum that nearly tripled gallery space. To addresses the impact of immigration will coordinate the logistical and cre- in Cambodia. in 2006 by Philadelphia chemist and celebrate, there are 19 exhibitions on and travel on British art and culture ative aspects of curatorial and related Whitney W. Donhauser has been philanthropist Robert L. McNeil, Jr. view showcasing 1,900 works. Mobiles across the centuries, and the role that programs. named the new director of the Museum At the OIM, Green oversaw the The new installation showcases by Alexander Calder will be among the arts have played in the history of Boehm is currently co-curating an of the • City of New York (NY), replacing more than 200 examples of ceramics the highlights of the new space. Britain’s imperial vision. international loan exhibition, Every Susan Henshaw Jones, who retired at photography, and special exhibitions, offices of the registrar, collections, 12/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/13 in addition to the museum’s archives, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), Istan- of the Andalusia Foundation, which museum practices, funded by the Henry Nicholas B.A. Nicholson has own, Nicholson Art Advisory. curatorial staff, and museum store. bul Modern Museum (Turkey), Neue oversees the Biddle family’s Delaware Luce Foundation. joined Freeman’s as senior vice Nicholson is currently chair of the Green received his BA in archaeol- Galerie (New York, NY) and National River estate; and is a member of the He currently serves on the board of president, • division head of American & board of directors of the Merchant’s ogy at the University of Liverpool and Gallery (Prague, Czech Republic). He Board of Governors of the Decorative directors for the U.S. National Com- European Furniture & Decorative Arts House Museum (New York, NY) and his MA and PhD from the Institute of Ar- was named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre Arts Trust. She received her A.B. degree mittee of the International Council effective. He also will lead the English serves on the collection committee of chaeology at University College London, des Arts et des Lettres in 2009 by the in Art History from Hamilton College of Museums (ICOM-US) and is involved & Continental Furniture & Decorative the Museum of Russian Icons (Clinton, and specializes in the art, archaeology, French Minister of Culture and received in 1993 and an MA from the University with both the American Alliance of Arts department at Freeman’s, which in- MA). and history of the ancient Middle East the Austrian Medal of Honor for Science of Delaware-Winterthur Program in Museums (AAM) and the Association cludes silver, objets de vertu and Russian Wadsworth Atheneum Mu- and East Mediterranean. He previously and the Arts in 2010. Early American Culture in 1999. of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). works of art. seum of Art has appointed Anne But- held positions as curator for the Ancient Quincy Houghton, currently as- She is preparing a comprehensive Before joining the Clark, Lough- Nicholson has more than 20 years ler Rice • The as Georgette Auerbach Koop- Near East at the Ashmolean Museum, sociate director for Exhibitions at the J. catalog of early American furniture in man was curator of European Art and of auction and art advisory experience man Director of Education. She oversees University of Oxford, and coordinator of Paul • Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA) the museum’s collection. assistant to the director for Exhibitions and has worked with private collectors, public and community programs, school the Tell es-Sa’idiyeh Cemetery Publica- will join the Metropolitan Museum of Thomas J. Loughman has been at the Phoenix Art Museum (AZ) and international museums, institutions and teacher programs, docent and tour tion in the department of the Middle Art (New York, NY) as associate direc- appointed the 11th director and CEO of was a National Endowment for the program, and visitor services. Another East at the British Museum. He also tor for Exhibitions this summer. She the Wadsworth • Atheneum Museum Arts Curatorial Fellow at the Philadel- considered an expert on Russian works focus will be in-gallery interpretation. taught at the University of Oxford and will lead the museum’s program of loan of Art (Hartford, CT). Loughman most phia Museum of Art (PA); held teaching ofand art, independent and his background, appraisal interestsfirms. He and is Rice has held positions of increas- University of Liverpool. exhibitions and installations highlight- recently served as associate director of positions at Pennsylvania State Univer- expertise cover such diverse areas as ing responsibility since joining the Fine ing aspects of its collection. Program and Planning at the Clark Art sity and elsewhere; and worked at the American neoclassicism, Tiffany silver Wadsworth Atheneum’s staff in 2005. Arts Museums of San Francisco (CA) Houghton has worked at the Getty Institute (Williamstown, MA). Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and 20th-century jewelry, among others. As associate museum educator for have • chosen The board Max of Hollein trustees as of the the new Museum since 1994. She manages the (Boston, MA), Metropolitan Museum of Adult Audiences, she developed educa- director. He was director of Schirn exhibitions department staff as well Art (New York, NY), Williams College tional programs related to permanent Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, Germany) since as the design and preparation depart- Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA) collections and special exhibitions 2001 and director of the Städel Mu- ments. From 1994 to 1998, as transition and National Gallery of Art (Washing- for. As Public Programs manager, Rice seum since 2006. manager, she coordinated all aspects ton, DC). played a leading role in the museum’s of the museum’s move from the Getty Loughman holds a PhD in art histo- Community Engagement Initiative, and Villa to the Getty Center, including ry from Rutgers University, an MA from helped secure grants to support inter- installation of the collections. the Clark/Williams College Graduate pretive programming for the museum’s Before joining the Getty, Houghton Program in the History of Art and AB newly reinstalled European Art galler- worked for the Los Angeles County from Georgetown University. He is a ies. She has served as interim director Museum of Art (CA) from 1991 to 1994 J. William Fulbright Fellow, Samuel H. of Education since Johanna Plummer’s as a special assistant to the director, Kress Foundation Travel Fellow, Rutgers departure last fall. managing a variety of board-designated University Dissertation Fellow and a projects. Rutgers University Excellence Fellow. Houghton received a BA magna cum He also attended the Museum Leader- Nicholson began his career working laude in Fine Arts from Harvard Univer- ship Institute at the Getty Center (Los for a dealer in continental furniture and sity in 1984. Angeles, CA) in 2008. decorative arts. He joined Christie’s Con- At the Met, she will succeed Jennifer At the Clark, Loughman spear- Loughman replaces director and tinental Furniture and Decorative Arts Russell, who will retire this spring. headed initiatives aimed at raising CEO Susan L. Talbott, who has retired. department in the early 1990s, where he awareness of the museum and its col- Christine Macel, chief curator of was involved in the cataloguing and auc- Garvan Associate Curator of American lections globally. He also researched the Pompidou Center (Paris, France), tions of Alice Tully, Bernheimer & Co., Decorative• Alexandra Arts Kirtley, at the the St. Montgomery- Louis Art the Clark’s pre-history, tracing the has been • named visual arts director of and Rudolf Nureyev. He was promoted historical record of museum founder to specialist within Christie’s New York Hollein studied art history at the Museum (MO), has also been promoted the 57th Venice Biennale (May 13– Sterling Clark’s 1908 expedition Russian Department and sold Russian University of Vienna and business to full curator. November 26, 2017). She has been at through China, while making connec- works from the estates of Landsell Chris- administration at the Vienna University Since joining the museum staff the center since 2000 and founded and tions with China’s present-day museum tie, Jane Englehardt and Frank Sinatra. of Economics. He oversaw the expan- in 2001, she has been responsible for manages the department of Contempo- leaders. His efforts paved the way for He also participated in the landmark sale sion of the Städel Museum, completed acquisitions including porcelains and rary and Prospective Creation. She was Philadelphia furniture of the Revolu- Clark-exclusive exhibitions that brought of the Fabergé Imperial 25th Anniver- in 2012, which doubled the institution’s Before joining the Wadsworth Ath- tionary War era. Among the exhibitions artifacts from China to the United States the French Ministry of Culture before sary Clock, which set auction records for gallery space and created a new wing eneum in 2005, Rice was the museum she has organized are Colonial Phila- Unearthed: joininga curator the and center. inspector She also of fine was arts the incu- Fabergé, clocks and silver. for the presentation of art since 1945. educator for Teacher Programs at the delphia Porcelain: The Art of Bonnin Recent Archaeological Discoveries rator of the biennale’s Belgian Pavilion Nicholson became the American Hollein began his career at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York, & Morris (2008) and Classical Splen- fromfor the Northern first time, China including (2012), Cast for (2007) and French Pavilion (2013). curator of Jewels of the Romanovs; Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), NY). She has held lecturing and teach- dor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Eternity: Ancient Ritual Bronzes from Frances Morris is the next Treasures from the Russian Imperial where he curated numerous exhibitions, ing positions at the Yale University Art Philadelphia House (forthcoming in the Shanghai Museum (2014) and director of the Tate Modern (London, Court, a touring exhibition of works including the American pavilion at the Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016), with Peggy Olley, the museum’s Through Shên-kan: Sterling Clark in England). • She has been top curator of Seventh Venice Architecture Biennale Cathedral and Treasury of St. Mary associate conservator of Furniture and China (2012). international art and succeeds Chris including a selection of the Imperial in 2000 and the Austrian pavilion at the (Aachen, Germany), and Brandeis Uni- Woodwork (see Exhibitions). Recently, Loughman led the launch Dercon. She start working at the Tate in Crownfrom five Jewels Russian from lending the State institutions, Diamond Venice Art Biennale in 2005. versity. She holds a BA in the History of Kirtley serves on the Curatorial Ad- of an exchange program to bring 1987 and has degrees from Cambridge Fund of the Russian Federation. By the He is a member of supervisory and Art and Religion from Bowdoin College, visory Board of the United States Sen- Chinese museum professionals to the University and the Courtauld Institute end of the decade, he joined an online advisory boards of the State Hermit- United States for training in American and an MA in Religion with a concentra- age Museum (Saint Petersburg, USSR), ate’s Commission on Art; is a trustee of Art (London, England). art advisory firm and later opened his 14/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/15 tion in Art History from Yale University. in decorative arts, design history and tions and accompanying catalogues on nition of his commitment to craftsman- dean of the institute’s graduate divi- eration of West Coast potters to work James Rondeau is the new direc- material culture from the Bard Gradu- contemporary furniture: New Ameri- ship and dedication to creating well- sion before retiring in the late 1980s. with hand-thrown stoneware. With tor of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), ate Center (New York, NY) and a BFA, can Furniture (Museum of Fine Arts, tailored, wearable pieces that blend He was also a visiting faculty member woodworker Sam Maloof, he helped succeeding • Douglas Druick. Rondeau concentrating in glass, from the Univer- 1989); Inspiring Reform: Boston’s Arts luxury with functionality. at Bard College and elsewhere. has been chair and curator of modern sity of Wisconsin-Madison. and Crafts Movement (Davis Museum, Hugh and interpreted a modern esthetic with and contemporary art at the institute James S. Snyder will move from Wellesley College, 1997); Wood Turn- Honour, who wrote The Visual Arts: A naturaldefine California materials. design at mid-century Obituaries • Art historian and author for the past 10 years. director of the Israel Museum (Jerusa- ing in North America Since 1930 Jeffery Aronoff, a designer of History with John Fleming and pub- He designed prototypes for Metlox • lem) in 2017 to international president (Yale University Art Gallery, 2001); chenille scarves, throws and fabrics, lished an expanded version in 1982 as pottery, tiles for Interpace, and dinner- historian Susie Silbert has joined the for the museum’s worldwide activities The Maker’s Hand: American Studio died •in December 2015 at 62. He won a A World History of Art, has died at 88. ware and glassware for Mikasa. • Independent curator, writer and CMOG as the new curator of modern and director emeritus, leading develop- Furniture, 1940–1990 (Museum of Cody Award early in his career. Honour was an assistant at the McIntosh was a Fellow of the and contemporary glass. She is respon- ment of an international network of Fine Arts, Boston, 2003); and Inspired Gladys-Marie Fry, an author and Leeds Art Gallery (England) and the American Craft Council, served as a sible for the acquisition, exhibition, cat- organizations, programming, collections by China: Contemporary Furniture- exhibition curator focusing on quilts Tudor-Jacobean Temple consultant-panelist for the National aloguing and research of the museum’s and facilities. makers Explore Chinese Traditions made • by slaves in the pre-Civil War Newsam House. He began contribut- Endowment for the Arts, and had an affiliated modern and contemporary collection, Susan L. Talbott, who recently (Peabody Essex Museum, 2006). south, died in November 2015 at 84. ing reviews and articles to the Times oral history recorded in the National and will oversee programming of the retired as director and CEO of the Cooke also contributed to Furni- She was a professor of folklore and of London and Connoisseur magazine Archives of American Art, Smithson- • Contemporary Art + Design Galleries. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ture by Wendell Castle, with Joseph English at the University of Maryland after moving to Italy with Fleming ian Institution (Washington, DC). Art (Hartford, CT), has been appointed Giovannini and Davira Taragin for 30 years before her retirement in and becoming part of the the artistic David Llewellyn Reese, who to the rank of Chevalier in the Order of (Founder’s Society of the Detroit 2000. Her books include Stitched from and literary community centered on I joined the Louis Armstrong House • Arts and Letters by France’s Minister of Institute of Arts, 1989). Heserved as the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebel- Tatti, the villa of art historian Bernard Museum (Queens, NY) in 2012 as its Culture, Fleur Pellerin, for her ser- a two-term trustee of the Furniture lum South, and she wrote or contrib- Berenson. vice on the board of the French Re- Society during its early years and has uted to eight museum catalogs. He wrote Chinoiserie: A Vision of MA from the University of Virginia with first curator, has died at 63. He held an gional American Museum Exchange spoken at many society conferences She curated a dozen exhibitions, Cathay (1961), which set chinoiserie a concentration in American architec- (FRAME). since they began 20 years ago. including ones at the Renwick Gal- in a political and economic context and ture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Hucker is honored for “... his perse- lery of the Smithsonian Institution a form of Western fantasy. That led to verance and brilliance, the excellence (Washington, DC), Anacostia Commu- organizing a traveling exhibition, The of his cumulative body of work, and his nity Museum (Washington, DC) and European Vision of America, for the inexhaustible passion for exploring new Museum of American Folk Art (New U.S. Bicentennial (1976). He also wrote ideas.” York, NY). Romanticism (1979), which focused on - Robert W. Gutman, former the visual arts. tery from Boston University’s Program graduate dean at the Fashion Institute Harrison McIntosh He received his Certificate of Mas in Artisanry in 1980 and studied the of Technology • (FIT; New York, NY) in has died at 101. He was known for his • Ceramicist Japanese tea ceremony at the Urasenke the 1950s, has died at 90. modern approach to classical vessel school from 1977 to 1980. In 1982, he forms in the 1950s, work in sculptural was an artist-in-residence at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and, in 1989, forms, and enhancing surface decora- retirement of Tina Oldknow, cura- he received a Fulbright grant to study spheres floating on geometric chrome- torSilbert from fills 2000–2015. the position She following will oversee the interior and industrial design at Domus mic brush spots. future programming for the new wing’s Academy (Milan, Italy). tion with thin sgrafitto lines or rhyth- - Hucker has taught at the Appala- ics class with Glenn Lukens, at USC Reese’s career included serving as ily Gallery of Contemporary Glass and chian Center for Crafts (Smithville, in 1940, MacIntosh and set took up a hisstudio first in ceram his director of the Abigail Adams Smith Modernfive galleries, Glass Ben gallery, W. Heineman and will continue Sr. Fam TN), California College of the Arts parents’ garage in Los Angeles. After Museum (New York, NY), Gunston to expand the museum’s collection of Awards (Oakland, CA), Parsons School of the war, thanks to the GI Bill, he was Hall (Alexandria, VA) and—through - glass from 1900 through the present. Design (New York, NY) and New York accepted by Millard Sheets into the Gracie Mansion ciety’s 2016 Award of Distinction are Silbert has partnered with institu- School of Interior Design (NY), and the then-new MFA program at the Clare- (New York, NY), as well as advising the Edward • Recipients (Ned) S. of Cooke, the Furniture Jr., Charles So tions and arts organizations such as Industrial Design department at Pratt mont Graduate School. Morris-Junielfive mayorships— Museum and others. He F. Montgomery Professor of American Parsons The New School for Design, Institute (New York, NY). While studying under Richard loved the decorative arts, was active Decorative Arts in the Department of UrbanGlass, the Houston Center for His work is in the permanent collec- Petterson at Scripps College, he and in the Attingham Summer Program the History of Art at Yale University Contemporary Craft and the Center tions of museums around the country fellow potter Rupert Deese opened a and Victorian Society in America, (New Haven, CT), and Thomas Hucker. for Art in Wood. She has worked on and has been featured in museum ceramics studio. He took workshops and often presented lectures about the Their awards will be presented at a numerous exhibitions featuring diverse exhibitions such as Inspired by China, Photo: Harcourt Brace & Company. with Bernard Leach and with Mar- decorative arts. He also contributed luncheon ceremony on June 24 at the media, and has contributed to exhibition Peabody-Essex Museum (Salem, MA; As dean, Gutman was instrumental guerite Wildenhain. writings to The Elements of Style, a society’s 20th anniversary conference catalogs for the Museum of Fine Arts, 2006); The Maker’s Hand, Museum in providing storage space for the DAS McIntosh married Marguerite Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Archi- (see Events). Houston (TX) and the Chrysler Muse- of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA; 2004); and and making it possible for the DAS to Loyau, who came to Claremont from tectural Detail (1991). Cooke’s scholarly focus is on Ameri- um (Norfolk, VA). She has also worked New American Furniture, also at the hold symposia in the mid-1980s. France on a Fulbright scholarship. June Schwarcz, an artist in can material culture and decorative arts. with galleries and artists, including as MFA (1989). Gutman was trained in music and They built a home in Padua Hills in enamel work, died in August 2015 at His work on modern craft includes his curator and collaborator at the studio Akris creative director Albert art history, earning BA and BA degrees 1958 with a studio where he and Deese 97. She • will be the subject of a survey role as founding co-editor of the Journal of glass innovator Mark Peiser, and is a Kriemler will receive the Couture in music from New York University. He shared equipment, kiln and work space of her work at the Renwick Gallery of of Modern Craft, as well as co-curator glassworker herself. Council • ’s 2016 Award for Artistry of taught art history and interior-design for 50 years. the Smithsonian Institution (Wash- and co-author of six seminal exhibi- Silbert holds a master’s degree Fashion on September 7, 2016, in recog- history at FIT and was the founding - ington, DC) in 2017.

McIntosh was among the first gen 16/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/17 This exhibition surveys the work Gothic to Goth uses historic gar- than as a surface for painted decoration. of some 70 global artists pushing the ments with literary works, paintings, Exhibitions medium’s boundaries. Included are prints and decorative arts to illustrate and realistic than any earlier creations, Dale Chihuly, Nick Mount, Klaus Moje, how European fashion from the Me- wereHis designs essential and for figures, the development more detailed of California and emphasize the natural properties Lino Tagliapietra, Marvin Lipofsky dieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras porcelain as an independent art form in Wendy Thoreson: Wrought Clay of the materials she uses. and others, who made glass a vehicle for Europe. Miniature World in White Gold American Museum of Ceramic Art ideas, transforming the 20th-century Romantic era (1810–1860), and how features dozens of Kaendler’s works, Pomona, CA Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Studio Movement. Romantic-erainfluenced new principles styles created affected in thecos- www.amoca.org Enameling in America, 1920 to tume, and the decorative and other arts. exotic representations and court and July 9–August 28, 2016 the Present forms by Karen LaMonte; cast-glass Costumes, furniture and decorative including his animals, crinoline figures, Wendy Thoreson began her Crocker Art Museum abstractions Works include of Richard life-sized, Whiteley figural; and arts embody veneration of nature and The formula for hard-paste por- career as a functional potter and now Sacramento, CA the sculptures of Masahiro Asaka and spirituality, along with the Romantic celain,peasant which figures. originated in China challenges herself to make objects that www.crockerartmuseum.org Christina Bothwell. interest in historical revival. Garments centuries earlier, was not discovered would never belong in the kitchen cabi- June 19–September 11, 2016 including wedding gowns, a nursing in Europe until the early 18th century- net. In college, she took basic black- This traveling exhibition features The Luster of Ages: Ancient Glass dress, children’s clothing and acces- only decades before Kaendler became a smithing classes and enjoyed making about 120 items from the collection from the Marcy Friedman sories commemorating friendship that modeler at Meissen. The material was tapered scrolls; the classes gave her an of the Enamel Arts Foundation, Collection as valuable as gold during his lifetime, understanding of how to treat, shape launched in 2007 by Bernard N. Jaz- Crocker Art Museum marriage and motherhood in Romantic- and work (wrought) the metal. She zar and Harold B. Nelson, Los Ange- Sacramento, CA erareflect art theand sentimentalization literature. of love, were commissioned by aristocrats to ultimately focused on ceramics but les, CA-based collectors and curators. www.crockerartmuseum.org A cotton muslin dress, ca. 1820, one ornamentwhen dinner extravagant services and banquet figurines and continued to be inspired by the lines Meat stone, banded jasper (naturally occur- Objects include jewelry, boxes, vessels, July 17–October 16, 2016 of the earliest works on view, is an early dining tables. While they initially served and details of wrought iron and Victo- ring stone that forms in layers), carved to plaques and sculptures with motifs Glass was used in the ancient world example of historical revival clothing, as table decoration and conversation resemble braised pork belly, Qing dynasty rian styles, translating blacksmithing that are abstract or stylized versions of for beads, vessels and eventually small with sleeves inspired by a Renaissance (1644–1911). Photo: © National Palace Mu- techniques by curving, twisting and - windows. This exhibition explores glass “slashed” style. A cotton dress from the collectibles themselves and were seum, Taipei. working the clay. ers, scenes from the bible, and more. vessels that have survived the ages, 1830s incorporates the large, puffed displayedpieces, porcelain in cabinets figures as independentsoon became Surfacemarine animals,textures birds,include scarabs, seams, flow cracks, from colored miniature amphoras to sleeves and wide collar of the 16th and artworks. Windfall by Box Collective Dirk Staschke: Nature Morte gold spheres, glass shards, and gems perfume bottles, from the 6th century 17th centuries, while the decorative Craft & Folk Art Museum American Museum of Ceramic Art such as diamonds and pearls. BCE to the 10th century CE. All from the tab edging of the collar recalls clothing Le Goût du Prince: Art and Prestige Los Angeles, CA Pomona, CA The title of the exhibition is taken eastern Mediterranean, objects on dis- in the 13th and 14th centuries and the in 16th-Century France www.cafam.org www.amoca.org from a quotation by Karl Drerup, a crenellations of Gothic revival buildings. Yale University Art Gallery Through September 4, 2016 Through September 18, 2016 Greek, Roman and Phoenician cultures A dress ca. 1840 reveals a silhouette New Haven, CT Windfall features new furniture This exhibition features works in Hampshire with his wife to escape the inplay the reflect Holy Land.the forms and influences of similar to a Gothic arch and a bodice http://artgallery.yale.edu and functional objects from members clay inspired by the Flemish and Dutch Nazis.German The enameler catalog whois from fled the to Univer-New inspired by 16th-century gowns. Through August 28, 2016 of the Los Angeles-based Box Collec- “Vanitas” still-life paintings of the 16th sity of North Carolina Press. Claire Falkenstein: Beyond Sculpture A look at recent Goth and Steam- tive. The works in the exhibition were and 17th centuries. Pasadena Museum of California Art punk fashions concludes the exhibition, fabricated from trees that fell in north- Glass for the New Millennium Pasadena, CA featuring designs by Alexander Mc- eastern Los Angeles during the wind- Emperors’ Treasures: Chinese Art Crocker Art Museum http://pmcaonline.org Queen, Jean Paul Gaultier, Nightwing storm of 2011. Works on display are by from the National Palace Sacramento, CA Through September 17, 2016 Whitehead and House of Coniglio. Robert Apodaca, Casey Dzierlenga, Museum, Taipei www.crockerartmuseum.org The exhibition is one of several cur- A 128-page, full-color illustrated Harold Greene, David Johnson, RH Asian Art Museum of San Francisco July 10–October 2, 2016 rently being developed by the Falken- catalog accompanies the exhibition. Lee & JD Sassaman, Samuel Moyer, San Francisco, CA stein Foundation, which inherited the Andrew Riiska, Stephan Roggen- www.asianart.org contents of the artist’s home and stor- Miniature World in White Gold: buck, Cliff Spencer and William Through September 18, 2016 age units. Her works included jewelry Meissen Porcelain by Johann Stranger. Emperors’ Treasures explores the and glass. The 65 works in the exhibi- Joachim Kaendler identities of nine rulers who reigned tion encompass almost every medium Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Kay Sekimachi: Simple Complexity| from the 12th through 20th centuries. she explored, from the early 1930s Hartford, CT Works from the Forrest L. Merrill Examining each one’s contribution to through the 1990s, including objects www.thewadsworth.org Collection the arts and the eras’ changing styles made of bamboo, copper tubes, glass Through January 2017 Craft & Folk Art Museum reveals how emperors’ personal tastes shards and more. This exhibition explores the career Los Angeles, CA shaped the evolution of art in China. A catalog documents designs for gates, of this porcelain modeler through a www.cafam.org More than 75 objects are on view in the fountains and stained-glass windows. Salt cellar, lead-glazed earthenware, mid-16th Sept. 25, 2016–Jan. 8, 2017 - Johann Joachim Kaendler over his century, Saint-Porchaire Workshop. ics, jades and more. Connecticut 44range years of porcelainas a modeler figures at the created Meissen by The French Renaissance blossomed artist Kay Sekimachi from the 1960s U.S. for Passed the firstfrom time, dynasty including to dynasty ceram Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Porcelain Factory in Germany. during the reign of King Francis I (r. through This today survey is ofdrawn the work from of the fiber collec - and once sheltered in Beijing’s Forbid- Fashion and Its Legacy Kaendler created more than 2,000 1515–1547), known as the “prince of tion of Forrest L. Merrill. With an eco- den City, these objects were conveyed Wadsworth Atheneum models and consistently tested the lim- arts and letters,” who attracted Ital- nomic approach to the use of color and Ojigi–Bowing (detail), glass, cast, 52 1/2 x 23 Hartford, CT its of porcelain as an artistic medium. ian artists to his court to decorate his pattern, Sekimachi’s sculptural forms in the National Palace Museum, Tai- x 19 in. Karen LaMonte, 2010. David Kaplan– www.thewadsworth.org château at Fontainebleau. Other nobility highlight the structure of her pieces peito Taiwan. amid conflict and now reside Glenn Ostergaard Glass Collection. Through July 10, 2016 porcelain as a sculpting material rather followed the king’s lead, seeking out the He was one of the first artists to use 18/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/19 best artists to portray their likenesses Small Stories reveals the tales made for children to collect, decorate artists. Most of the objects are created at Todd Hoyer’s works that use burning er decorative or functional, real or ideal, and decorate their own castles. This behind some of the dollhouses of the and play with. As the Industrial Revolu- least in part on a lathe, an ancient tool and distressing for symbolic reasons. celebratory or critical—and include exhibition explores the relationship Victoria & Albert Museum of Child- tion opened up the possibility of mass used to turn wood while the artist uses A fully illustrated book, published decorative arts and textiles, along with between art and power in 16th-century hood (London, England), with informa- manufacture, houses became a more a chisel to cut shapes into the medium. by the museum, accompanies the exhi- works from the Americas, Europe, Af- France. tion about the history of the homes and common and affordable toy. bition and includes a statement about rica and Asia, and four of the museum’s - the everyday lives and changing family The Dream House installation, the that many of the artists use a lathe to the history and meaning of the Masons’ miniature rooms. relationships of people in real life. The sculpt The the word wood, “turned” rotating reflects the mate- the fact years of collecting. the day—the The artworks goût reflectdu prince the or preferenc “taste of exhibition is traveling worldwide with rooms by American artists, designers rial on its axis to create a symmetrical, Massachusetts thees of prince”—and the cultured, highlight aristocratic the figures impact of an exclusive U.S. engagement at the andfinale architects, of the exhibition, commissioned features by 24 the rounded form. Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Women of Concord of those preferences on French art and National Building Museum. museum to showcase a diverse array The museum’s Henry D. Green Their Subjects Concord Museum culture in subsequent centuries. The homes show developments in of perspectives and demonstrate the Center for the Study of the Decorative Georgia Museum of Art Concord, MA architecture and design, encompass- creativity of building in miniature. Some Arts pursues collecting and researching Athens, GA www.concordmuseum.org Art and Industry in Early America: ing country mansions, the Georgian were made using traditional furnish- modern studio craft. These objects are http://georgiamuseum.org Through September 25, 2016 Rhode Island Furniture, 1650– town house, suburban villas, newly ings; others from materials such as clay, a gift to the museum and constitute a September 3–December 31, 2016 The Women of Concord exhibition 1830 built council estates and high-rise insects, 3D-printing and even Peeps comprehensive collection of examples These objects from a private collec- uses objects from its collection to tell Yale University Art Gallery apartments. Many of the houses, their marshmallow candies. by leading wood artists working in the tion (on extended loan and a promised the stories of some of the town’s famous New Haven, CT furniture and dolls have been conserved Small Stories: At Home in a Doll- United States. This collection was as- gift to the Georgia Museum of Art) and not-so-famous female citizens. artgallery.yale.edu especially for the exhibition—about house is organized with support from sembled over several decades by Jane show how the Romanov family of Rus- Everyday objects that famous women August 19, 2016–January 8, 2017 1,900 objects have been restored over STUDIOS Architecture, the Milton and and Arthur Mason. sian rulers commissioned, used and owned include a tea kettle that Little This exhibition presents a com- two years at the museum. Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Founda- The exhibition is sponsored by the distributed gifts to solidify its hold on Women-author Louisa May Alcott prehensive survey of Rhode Island During the 17th century, dollhouses tion, British Council USA, Frist Foun- W. Newton Morris Charitable Founda- power. It includes military medals and (1832–1888) kept from her days as an furniture from the colonial and early were rare, expensive and handmade, dation, Farrow & Ball, XL Catlin, and tion and the Friends of the Georgia orders, statuettes, icons, snuff boxes, Army nurse during the Civil War and Federal periods, including carved chairs, often to replicate real residences. Henry and Jessica Townsend. Museum of Art. and a silver boat made by Fabergé, and later donated to Concord Museum high chests, bureau tables and clocks, Similar to cabinets of curiosities, The exhibition features 30 objects, is accompanied by a catalog published founder Cummings Davis. drawing together more than 130 objects they were often commissioned by men Georgia all made entirely of sculpted wood. by the museum. Historical objects that form the core from museums, historical societies and to dollhouses wealth and status of their Turned and Sculpted: Wood Art from It functions almost as an encyclopedia of the collection include: private collections to highlight esthetic households. Some were also used as the Collection of Arthur and Jane of American woodturners and sculptors, Maryland innovations developed in the region. learning aids for young girls and for ser- Mason including Georgia’s Moulthrop fam- Imagining Home that descended through the Jones/ • an oak and pine chest from 1705 In addition to pieces from centers vants to become acquainted with their Georgia Museum of Art ily—father Ed, son Philip and grandson Baltimore Museum of Art Hoar/Brooks/Clark/Emerson fami- of production such as Providence and household roles. As with real houses, Athens, GA Matt—and Garry Knox Bennett, David Baltimore, MD lies, originally made for Sarah Jones Newport, the exhibition showcases sim- dollhouses have often been redecorated www.georgiamuseum.org Ellsworth, Mark and Mel Lindquist, www.bma.org Hoar (1686–1774). pler examples made in smaller towns Through August 7, 2016 Todd Hoyer, Bob Stocksdale, Michael Through Summer 2018 and for export. The exhibition also those of a different age or time period. This exhibition features modern Peterson, Merryll Saylan, and Marilyn Imagining Home is in conjunc- addresses the reach of Rhode Island’s to reflect Dollhouses either developedcontemporary into tastestoys or design as expressed in wood by studio Campbell. tion with the opening of the Center for furniture production, from the boom of Objects include the relatively tradi- People & Art, a new education center at the export trade at the turn of the 17th tional turned bowls of the Moulthrops the Baltimore Museum of Art. Art- century and its growth throughout the to Robyn Horn’s geometric sculpture, works represent ideas and aspects of 18th century to the decline of the hand- Rod Cronkite’s topographic forms and the places in which people live—wheth- craft tradition in the 19th century. The exhibition is made possible by support from Helen D. Buchanan, Sarah Jeffords Radcliffe, Lulu C. and Anthony W. Wang, Jeanie Kilroy Wilson,Jane P. Watkins, and the Henry Luce Foundation, with additional support from the Ballou family; Na- tional Endowment for the Arts; Wunsch Chest, oak and pine, Concord area, 1705. Americana Foundation; Raymond Jones/Hoar/Brooks/Clark/Emerson Family. Gift and Helen Runnels DuBois Publica- of Mrs. Raymond Emerson (1978). tion Fund; Friends of American Arts at Yale Publication Fund; and David owned by Rebecca Poor Farnham • the silver tea service (ca. 1850) and Rosalee McCullough Family Fund. Damon throughout her life and used for entertaining. District of Columbia Other objects on display are: Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse National Building Museum plates by silversmith Lucy Cora Myrick Washington, DC Betty Pinney 1910 drawing room, restored by a textile and graphic designer as an escape into an Brown • a hand-wrought(1859–1937), acommunion student of Karl Donut, ash leaf maple, 3 1/4 (high) x 7 (diameter) inches, 1988, Ed idealized world of the 1870s. Mrs. Smith and her fellow servants are dealing not only with a staff Leinonen of the Society of Arts and www.nbm.org Moulthrop (American, 1916–2003). Georgia Museum of Art, University shortage, but also suspicions of a screaming skull that haunts the halls. © Victoria and Albert Crafts, Boston. Through January 22, 2017 Museum, London. of Georgia. Gift of Jane and Arthur Mason.

20/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/21 Martha Lincoln Traditions and Innovations: Fuller publication of Charles Darwin’s On the The textiles in this exhibition were www.bgc.bard.edu (1897–1985) and Katharine Torrey Craft Museum Collects Origin of Species in 1859. The exhibi- functional items in daily life, but also Through September 25, 2016 (1896–1990), • a toy ship who by wer founders of the Fuller Craft Museum embody technical skill. Traditional and Bantam Workshop, a pre-and after- Brockton, MA decorative arts. sacred patterns were often incorporated United States to examine Artek, a Finn- school program in the 1950s that taught www.fullercraft.org tion “Artdelves in Nature”into how uses flora the inspired museum’s the into these works, although the exact ori- ish design This is company the first exhibition founded in in 1935, the woodworking skills to children. Ongoing collection of decorative arts to see how gins of certain design motifs are often Some objects in the exhibition led Organized thematically and rotated the two architect co-founders Alvar to research that brought almost-forgot- annually, this permanent collection migration between tribes and cultures andAalto the (1898–1976) first to have anda specific Aino Marsio-focus on ten stories of women’s contributions space—the Lampos Gallery—shares diverseplants and as textiles,flowers ceramics,have influenced furniture occurreddifficult to over determine, a long period since contactof time. and Aalto (1894–1949). to the fore. For instance, a bird-head objects in the collection and gives a anddesigners architecture. and craftspeople “Domesticating in fields the as Organized in collaboration with the pestle is a Native American artifact that theoretical context to the museum ex- Outdoors” shows ceramic and glass Alvar Aalto Museum (Helsinki, Fin- would have belonged to a female tribal perience and its other changing exhibi- land), the exhibition features approxi- leader before Europeans arrived in the tions. indoors for personal enjoyment and Hair wreath with hair from 75 members of Rice mately 200 works—many never before 17th century. It represents the “Squaw study.vessels that brought flowers and plants and Hobart families of Rowe and Leverett, MA, on public view—including drawings Sachem,” which means “Woman Chief” Paper and Blade: Modern Paper Cutting 1859, Maria Rice Hobart of Rowe, MA, and sketches for interiors and furniture, in the Algonquian language, who met Fuller Craft Museum glassware, lighting, textiles and furni- with the founders of Concord in 1634 to Brockton, MA ture, with a rare group of bentwood arrange sharing the land with the native www.fullercraft.org furniture by Alvar Aalto from a private Bangwell Putt, people. Through July 31, 2016 - cloth doll with Paper and Blade: Modern Paper carved body, ishes and colors. CounterCraft: Voices of the Indie Cutting includes works by Elizabeth owned by Clar- collection in Finland with original fin Craft Community Alexander, Charles Clary, Béatrice issa Field, born Maire Gullichsen (born Ahlström), Fuller Craft Museum Coron, Mayuko Fujino, Katherine blind in 1765, The exhibition clarifies the role of Brockton, MA Glover, Bovey Lee, Nikki McClure, Northfield, MA; progressive ideas to help modernize core body carved www.fuller.org Randal Thurston, Michael Velliquette, Cushion cover, silk and cotton embroidery, Finland.who used She her and affluence her husband, and belief Harry in Covered cup, silver, embossed with combina- with jackknife by Through July 10, 2016 Maude White and Charles Young. 23 5/8 x 22 5/8 inches, Caucasian, 18th–19th (1902–1954), who was appointed direc- tion of repoussé and chased work; acanthus her grandfather, This exhibition showcases makers While paper cutting has been an art century. Gift of Mrs. Frank H. Cook. tor of the Ahlström company in 1930, leaf decoration around base and rosette on Moses Field. and designers in the DIY culture and the form since the 6th century AD, the genre domed cover. Gerrit Onckelbag (1670–1732). were art and architecture patrons of the principles upon which it has developed. is enjoying a renaissance. Used to serve syllabub (a dish made with milk 20th century. She was also a practicing The “indie craft” movement encourages Paper and Blade was made pos- whipped into sweetened or flavored wine, New Hampshire artist who trained with Fernand Léger The Odd and the Elegant: Mining makers to express their viewpoints on sible by the Gretchen Keyworth Exhi- cider, beer or ale). The acanthus is the most in Paris, France, and a glass designer. the Collection of the Portsmouth the world through one-of-a-kind objects bitions Fund. common plant form to inspire foliage orna- One project, the Hämäläis-Osakunta Historical Society created with technical skill, new or tra- ment on decorative arts. Its characteristic Missouri Students Club (1924), shows Alvar jagged leaves appear on architectural details, John Paul Jones House Museum ditional craft techniques, and a modern Natural Selections: Flora and the Arts From Caravans to Courts: Textiles Aalto’s early investigations in furniture carved furniture, textiles, ceramics and silver. Portsmouth, NH design esthetic. Historic Deerfield from the Silk Road design. www.portsmouthhistory.org Deerfield, MA St. Louis Art Museum A recently restored drawing for a Relics and Curiosities in Memorial Hall Through October 10, 2016 http://www.historic-deerfield.org St. Louis, MO table leg shows both Aalto’s knowledge Memorial Hall Museum Since 1920, the Portsmouth His- Through February 12, 2017 http://www.slam.org of furniture history and an early interest Deerfield, MA torical Society has collected objects, Through August 21, 2016 in the leg form that he later explored www.deerfield.history.museum almost exclusively through gifts, that Carpets and other textiles from in designing bentwood furniture. He Through October 30, 2016 people believed were important to save. various parts of Asia have long been expanded the notion of standardization Out-of-the ordinary curios and Some are works of art and craftsman- traded on the Silk Road. It fostered to the creation of bentwood furniture Waistcoat, keepsakes are among the 98 artifacts ship; others are odd and evoke curios- brocaded silk, travel and commerce between China, models. featured in Relics and Curiosities in ity about why they were donated and 1730s–1740s; India, Central Asia and Europe, and was This theme also examines the Memorial Hall. Objects include memen- preserved. probably Lyon, central to cultural interaction. By the trajectory of Alvar Aalto’s emergence toes such as hair wreaths, silhouettes This small exhibition, organized France. Designers 15th century, Oriental carpets made in as a furniture designer who created a and memorials, and items made from by Gerald W.R. Ward, DAS newsletter of brocaded silks carpet-weaving centers in Turkey were modern design vocabulary using bent- often trained as tortoiseshell or whalebone. The exhi- editor, and Lainey McCartney, includes The Baker’s Dozen, fleece, felt, polyfil, cotton exported to Europe and, later, to the wood instead of tubular metal, which artists before turn- fabric, cardboard, beads, thread; 40” x 30” x bition reveals how perceptions have Americas. some of the little-known treasures that ing their talents changed since these artifacts were cre- have been unearthed in a recent survey 20”. Heidi Kenney, 2016. In the 20th century, western col- 1920s. Aalto made the majority of the to woven textile ated. of the institution’s holdings, and raises The exhibition is curated by Faythe lectors turned their attention to the mosthad defined famous modern bentwood furniture designs in through the patterns. Hair work was a popular Victo- questions about the meaning and value Levine, a multimedia artist and curator traditional carpets and textiles made by a partnership between the architect rian memento. Keepsake hair jewelry of objects as documents of local history. who directed the documentary “Hand- nomadic, village and workshop weavers Korhonen and the manufacturer. Aalto or decorative hair wreaths served as made Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, throughout regions along the Silk Road. eventually received patents for these in- remembrances of loved ones or memo- and Design” (2009) and wrote the book These textiles were produced under New York novations, many for legs that were bent rials to the deceased. While hair work of the same name. several settings and conditions: tribal Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a through a special lamination process. The exhibition is made possible by might seem melodramatic today, it was The 28 objects in this exhibition weaving; cottage-industry weaving; and Modern World Loans of furniture from a private support from the Gretchen Keyworth considered appropriately sentimental in explore how nature inspired, impressed town and city workshops using complex Bard Graduate Center collection in Finland show the original Exhibitions Fund. the 19th century. and enlightened society long before the and intricate patterns. New York, NY construction and colors of the standard

22/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/23 Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs Artek chair, bentwood arms. the reign of Louis XV. Although little is Metropolitan Museum of Art In contrast, in Anatolia, Syria and the known of his early years, François-Thomas Germainby 1765, he New York, NY Jazira (northwestern Iraq, northeastern sculpteur-orfèvrewas gilding pieces in bronze and silver du roi - www.metmuseum.org Syria, and southeastern Turkey), which for , the Through July 24, 2016 were controlled by the Seljuq successor (sculptor-gold dynasties (Rum Seljuqs, Artuqids and Savoy Vase, mold- smith toMenus-Plaisirs the king). du Roi Zangids), art was produced under royal blown glass. Alvar In 1767, Gouthière began to work One of the most productive periods - patronage, and Islamic iconography was Aalto. Manufactured for the , an in the history of the region from Iran introduced to a predominantly Christian by Karhula-Iittala institution responsible for providing the to Anatolia (in modern Turkey) cor area. Glassworks, 1936–37. king’s personal effects and organizing responds to the rule of the Seljuqs and A number of artists immigrated to- Museum of Modern his entertainment. their immediate successors, from 1038 the region from Iran in response to the Art, gift of Artek- Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to 1307. The Seljuqs were a Turkic - Mongol conquest in 1220. Because pa Pascoe, Inc. Digital also commissioned objects directly and dynasty of Central Asian nomadic origin trons, consumers and artists came from Image © Museum of Modern Art/ acquired works at an auction organized - that established a vast, but decentral diverse cultural, religious and artistic Licensed by SCALA/ in December 1782 after the death of the ized and relatively short-lived, empire in backgrounds, they produced distinctive Art Resource, NY. Duke of Aumont, an admirer of Gout West Asia (present-day Turkmenistan, arts in the western parts of the Seljuq hière’s production. Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey). Court and realm. - models. The exhibition also includes a examples of the standard range, em- than 25 additional works from the A blue-marble and gilt-bronze table - Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs - The exhibition opens with a display rare example of the wooden mold used phasizing the different types of wood, Brooklyn Museum’s collection. commissioned for the Duke of Aumont features works of art created in the 11th of artifacts that name the Seljuq sul in the production of Aalto’s armchair and Duchess of Mazarin inspired the ex through 13th century from Turkmeni- tans and members of the ruling elite. model no. 41, along with drawings and well as examples of glass designed by Uniformity hibition and fresh study of Gouthière’s - stan to the Mediterranean. In Central Asia and Iran, inscriptions furniture for the Southwestern Fin- finishes and textiles that were used,Paris as Museum of the Fashion Institute of oeuvre. Frick Collection Approximately 270 objects—in appeared on coins and architecture. In land Agricultural Cooperative Building World’s Fair in 1937. Technology In conjunction with the exhibi cluding ceramics, glass, stucco, works Anatolia, Syria and the Jazira, names - (1927–1928). Alvar “Furnishing Aalto and first the World”shown atfocuses the on New York, NY tion, the will publish on paper, woodwork, textiles and of Seljuq successor rulers and images “Models of Modernity in Interiors Artek’s emergence on the world stage www.fitnyc.edu/museum the first English-language monograph metalwork—from American, European appeared on a range of objects. This sec and Retailing” shows the Aaltos’ ideas as a distributor of furniture designed by Through November 19, 2016 on Gouthière and first comprehensive D Giles, Ltd. and Middle Eastern public and private tion features the 12th-century cloisonné about interiors and furnishings through Alvar Aalto and the retailing network Uniforms are everywhere—on presentation of his Annework Foray-Carlier since 1986, in collections are on display. Many of the dish bearing the name of Rukn al-Dawla two domestic projects: their own home Artek created as part of the company - (association with Musée des Arts Décoratifs , featuring Joseph institutions have never lent works from Dawud, a leader of the Artuqids. in Helsinki and the apartment in Hel- mission to disseminate modernism. dants and fast-food clerks, so common- Godlacontributions (Frick Collectionby Helen their collections before. The exhibition - In the second section, the courtly - sinki they designed together for Maire “Designing Modern Interiors” placesoldiers, that schoolchildren, they are often overlooked.flight atten Jacobsen (Wallace Collection), Luisa marks the first time that Turkmenistan, environment and activities associated - and Harry Gullichsen. reveals the role of Aino Marsio-Aalto as Uniformity explores their role. Penalva (Museu Nacional), de Arte as an independent country, has per with the sultans and their courtiers ap “Artek Store and Gallery” focuses on head of Artek’s interior design division. Fashion has drawn inspiration from Antiga Emmanuel Sarméo), mitted an extended loan of a group of pear in stucco reliefs, ceramics, met the Aaltos’ own remarkable vision for Distributed by Yale University Press uniforms of all kinds, such as transform- (Château de Versailles Anna historical objects to a museum in the alwork and other media, including the both retailing modernism and dissemi- under the editorship of Nina Stritzler- ing functional features into decorative Saratowicz, Lisbon), (Royal Castle United States. Blacas ewer, with its myriad details of nating modern art, which began early Levine elements. ) and - Under the Great Seljuqs of Iran, - life connected to the court. English on the topic and expands on , Warsaw). A the middle class prospered, spurring The three centuries under Seljuq - Artek store in Helsinki. Artek retailed a the exhibition,, the catalog with isessays the first by Harrybook in Pierre Gouthière: Virtuoso Gilder at French-language edition of the publica arts patronage, technological advance rule were also a period of inventions. The Book of Knowl- rangein 1936 of withproducts: the opening furniture; of the glass first that Charrington, Juhani Pallasmaa and the French Court tion is planned. ments and a market for luxury goods. edgePages from the early 13th-century illus of Ingenious Mechanical Devices both the architects had been designing Susanna Pettersson, and studies of Frick Collection trated manuscript Artek’s interior projects. New York, NY manufactured at the Karhula factory www.frick.org Side table detail, feature some of the inventions of the (Finland),since early then in the by 1930s Iittala and; textiles, was first many Disguise: Masks and Global African Art November 16, 2016–February 19, marble and gilt Muslim polymath Ibn al-Razzaz al- by Aino Marsio-Aalto; and imported Brooklyn Museum of Art 2017 bronze, 1781. Jazari, from clocks and water wheels to items, mostly vernacular crafts such as Brooklyn, NY Bronzes by Pierre automata (robots). A pharmacy box has rugs, baskets and pottery from Africa www.brooklyn.org on Pierre Gouthière (1732–1813), Gouthière after with separate compartments for musk, designs by Jean- and Latin America. Through September 18, 2016 the French This is bronzethe first chaser exhibition and gilderto focus camphor and other ingredients typical François-Thérèse In 1937, the space was expanded to This installation that connects who worked for Louis XV and Louis Chalgrin and of the medieval pharmacopoeia. make an art gallery with a show devoted works by 25 contemporary artists with XVI. The exhibition sheds light on the François-Joseph Animal combat was a favorite to Moroccan rugs. Shows featured Paolo examples of traditional disguise by artist’s production, life and workshop Bélanger. Photo: theme in Iranian art. The double-headed Venini (glass), Dora Jung (textiles) and contemporary artists from Africa and through approximately 30 objects from Michael Body- eagle was adopted as the standard of - Marita Lubeck (ceramics) and pre- of African descent working across the public and private collections that are comb. the Seljuq successor states in Anatolia globe, including 13 in Brooklyn and attributed with certainty to Gouthière, and the Jazira. Harpies and sphinxes ap artists and weavers, glassblowers and the New York area and presented with pear frequently. ceramistsfigured today’s together. convention of showing historical masks. lights, and mounts for Chinese porcelain The Vaso Vescovali, a lidded bowl Another section examines the Artek Originally produced by the Seattle andincluding hardstone clocks, vases. vases, firedogs, wall engraved and inlaid with silver and brand, company graphic identity and Art Museum (WA), this presentation Gouthière became a master ciseleur- decorated with complex astrological product line. The exhibition features has been reorganized to include more doreur (chaser-gilder) in 1758, during imagery, features eight personifications of planets on the lid along with the 12 signs of the zodiac and their associated 24/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/25 planets on the base within other orna- publicly that focuses on the late 16th to tion and the Islamic profession of faith - the early 1940s. Although he showed an the Rotasa Foundation; Wright; and mentation. 18th century, when Chinese porcelain has European gilt mounts, indicating its ining pleating, lacework and leather- early talent for silver-plated tableware Barbara Fleischman. The Seljuqs actively promoted became a global luxury. journey from China to the Islamic world work.space isA roomarranged is dedicated as an enfilade, to toiles exam and at Cranbrook, wartime rationing forced Sunni Islam throughout their territory, The introduction of porcelain to and Europe. the ateliers of tailoring (tailleur) and Bertoia to work on a smaller scale, and building madrasas and mosques, and Europe can be traced to the period In the early 17th century, after the dressmaking (flou)—the traditional he began to create jewelry from melted- sponsoring the production of Qur’ans between the late 15th and early 16th Dutch auctioned porcelain from two division of a maison de couture. down metal scraps, including wedding and other religious texts. A number of centuries known as the Age of Explo- captured Portuguese ships and overtook rings for Cranbrook friends Charles rare, ornamented examples of the book ration. It includes both the travels of the Portuguese and Spanish maritime and Ray Eames. arts from the time of the Seljuqs are Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) routes, porcelain became widespread Objects highlight Bertoia’s investi- on view. A ritual vessel from Georgia, that led to the discovery of the Americas throughout northern Europe. gations of form, dimension and material with a Hebrew inscription, attests to and the discovery by Vasco da Gama on a concentrated and bankable scale the presence of Jewish populations. (1460–1524) in 1498 of a maritime produced for display in a European that established him as a pioneer of the The same artists often served various route around the Cape of Good Hope in home, A monumentaldepicts scenes set from of five West vessels, Lake American Studio Jewelry movement religious communities, so the styles and Africa to South and East Asia. Supported in southern China. Tureens include a who elevated fashionable adornment to artistic traditions of one group merged by the Portuguese and Spanish courts, piece in the form of a crab with movable objets d’art. with those of another. they sought a sea route that would pro- eyes; another is in the shape of the his- Bent, Cast & Forged is organized by Necklace, forged and fabricated gold; chain, 9 vide faster access to Asian luxuries. torical Chinese Buddhist monk Budai; the Cranbrook Art Museum and curated in. (22.9 cm); pendants, 1 3/4 × 1 1/8 × 1/16 focuses on the funerary arts through a and a third, based on European silver, by Shelley Selim and Jeanne and in. (4.4 × 2.9 × 0.2 cm) each; circa 1943. Collec- variety The of final tomb section markers, of the cenotaphs, exhibition China in the 16th century, the extensive with patterns incorporating Western Ralph Graham. tion of Kim and Al Eiber. Photo: Tim Thayer and funerary furniture and patterned kiln Whencomplex the at Portuguese Jingdezhen first in Province reached and Eastern imagery, and exemplify R. H. Hensleigh. textiles discovered in Seljuq tombs. in the southeast dominated porcelain the character of the Chinese porcelain Expensive textiles in a funerary context production. (China and Korea, to a industry in the 18th century. Wedding dress with 20-foot train, scuba knit, The Folk Art Collection of Elie and indicate that popular customs and of- lesser extent, were the only places in the The exhibition includes three gifts hand-embroidered with pearls and gemstones, Viola Nadelman world making porcelain at that time.) to the museum from the R. Albuquer- hand-painted with gold metallic pigment, New-York Historical Society An illustrated catalog accompanies que Collection and is accompanied by a machine-printed with rhinestones. 2014, New York, NY theficial exhibition, practice differed published significantly. by the Metro- Europeans to commission works from fully illustrated catalog. Lagerfeld for Chanel. www.nyhistory.org politan Museum of Art, distributed by China; Portuguese these early rulers commissioned were the first Traditional hand techniques are Through August 21, 2016 discussed alongside technologies such Yale University Press, and made pos- objects are among the rarest works on Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age Brooch, forged and fabricated sterling silver, 3 Avant-garde sculptor Elie Nadel- sible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foun- view. They include pieces with royal of Technology as 3-D printing, computer modeling, 1/8 × 1 1/8 × 5/8 in. (7.9 × 2.9 × 1.6 cm), circa man (1882–1946) is known for his dation, Doris Duke Fund for Publica- Metropolitan Museum of Art bonding and laminating, laser cutting, 1945. Collection of Kim and Al Eiber. Photo: portrayals of dancers, circus performers tions, and Marshall and Marilyn R. coat of arms, and Catholic imagery. New York, NY and ultrasonic welding. Wright Auction House. and other popular entertainers. Less Wolf Foundation. designs, By this such time, as a shapes flattened and bottle designs with a www.metmuseum.org The exhibition is made possible by Support is from Nanette L. Lait- familiar is the folk art collection that from the Middle East had been incor- Through August 14, 2016 Apple with support from Condé Nast. man; Kay Bucksbaum; KLM Royal Nadelman and his wife, Viola Spiess Global by Design: Chinese Ceramics porated into the porcelain industry This exhibition explores how de- Dutch Airlines, the Official Airline of Flannery, amassed after their mar- from the R. Albuquerque and were also transmitted to Europe. signers are reconciling the handmade Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of MAD; Joy and Allan Nachman; Kim riage in 1919. They shared a passion Collection A kraak dish (ca. 1628–1642) depict- and the machine-made in the creation of Harry Bertoia and Al Eiber; Siegelson, New York; for American and European folk art, Metropolitan Museum of Art haute couture and avant-garde ready-to- Museum of Arts and Design New York, NY either the Islamic world or Europe wear through more than 170 examples New York, NY www.metmuseum.org providesing two Persian one example figures of and these made compli- for from the early 1900s to the present. The www.madmuseum.org Through August 7, 2016 cated interchanges (kraak derives from exhibition addresses the founding of Through September 25, 2016 Global by Design: Chinese Ceram- the Portuguese word for “ship” and is haute couture in the 19th century, when Coming to MAD from the Cran- ics from the R. Albuquerque Collec- the sewing machine was invented, and brook Art Museum, Bent, Cast & tion is an international loan of 60 and the emergence of a distinction between Forged explores the lesser-known Chinese ceramics from a Brazilian exportoften used in the in lateWestern 16th sourcesand early to 17th define the hand (manus) and the machine jewelry works of Harry Bertoia (1915 private collection never before exhibited centuries).Chinese porcelains A bowl with made pierced specifically decora- for (machina) at the onset of industrializa- –1978) that are the predecessors of his tion and mass production. sculpture and furniture designs and A 2014 haute couture wedding follows his investigations of form and dress by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel material in his early days as an artist occupies a central cocoon, with details and designer. of its embroidery projected onto the A graduate of the Cranbrook domed ceiling. The scuba-knit ensemble Academy of Art and a former metalsmithing instructor, the handmade and the machine-made. Bertoia is known (Bloomfield for his woven Hills, wire MI) is an The example exhibition of the is confluence structured between around metal furniture. His exploration of the the traditional métiers of the haute cou- medium originated in jewelry design while he was still a high school student of alcoves, examining the petites mains in Detroit in the 1930s. Of the hundreds Riverboat Excelsior pull toy, tinned sheet iron, iron, paint, paper, 14 x workshopsture. The first of embroidery,floor unfolds featherwork as a series of jewelry pieces attributed to him, he 21 x 7 in., ca. 1870. George W. Brown & Co. (American, 1830–1889), Five vessels depicting scenes from West Lake in southern China, Chinese porcelain. produced the majority at Cranbrook in Forestville or Cromwell, CT. Purchased from Elie Nadelman.

and artificial flowers. The ground floor 26/Spring 2016 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/27 museum to build a facility and studio the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His his father, George III. The prince led an www.mfah.org The Mint Museum’s collection of opening their own museum. works remain in Tudor and Elizabethan extravagant lifestyle before and during October 23, 2016–January 22, 2017 18th-century British pottery and porce- and Thehelped exhibition define the features emerging more field than by for teaching glass technique. buildings such as the Hermitage Mu- his regency that held great sway over A major exhibition on Chinese art lain includes examples of both salt- 200 objects in a wide range of media, dedicated The museum’s to and designed Glass Pavilion specifically was seum & Gardens (Norfolk, VA). the fashions of the day. He advocated from the collections of the National glazed and dry-bodied stoneware from including furniture, sculpture, paint- designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue new forms of leisure, style and taste. Palace Museum, Taipei, Emperors’ Staffordshire; tin-glazed earthenware ings, ceramics, glass, iron, textiles and Nishizawa, lead architects of SANAA, A Common Thread: Tradition and His “Regency Style” was a mixture of the Treasures highlights the roles that from Bristol, Liverpool and London; household tools. Many of the objects and joined the TMA 36-acre campus Trend in Swedish Textiles Antique and the exotic, the gilded and eight rulers of the Song, Yuan, Ming and and cream-colored earthenware from on view are drawn from the New-York in 2006. The exterior and many of the American Swedish Historical Museum the decorated. Qing dynasties—from the early 12th to Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Yorkshire Historical Society’s Nadelman collec- interior walls of the 74,000-square-foot Philadelphia, PA The exhibition includes a miniature the early 20th century—played in the (all in England). Notable 18th-century tion, acquired from the artist in 1937, building are made entirely of glass. The www.americanswedish.org of Napoleon Bonaparte and a silver-gilt establishment and development of new porcelain factories represented include that illuminate the intersection between structure serves as both a museum Ongoing wine cooler by Paul Storr. During this artistic directions at their courts and Chelsea, Bow and Vauxhall (London, folk art and modernism. housing TMA’s glass holdings and a A Common Thread uses the period, Storr built the Royal Pavilion throughout the empire. England); Longton Hall (Staffordshire, studio. museum’s collection to explore the in Brighton, an Orientalist fantasy in Some 100 works rarely seen Worcester, Bristol), among others. Ohio themes of technique, style and material architecture. outside Taipei will be featured, includ- Hot Spot: Contemporary Glass from Pennsylvania employed to create Swedish clothes, ing portraits, calligraphy, bronzes Private Collections Flowery Thoughts: Ceramic Vases & weavings, embroidery and other handi- Texas Silver from the William J. Hill and decorative arts such as porcelain, Toledo Museum of Art Floral Ornament at Winterthur work. The exhibition looks at the ways Collection lacquer, textiles, enamels, and jade. The Toledo, OH Brandywine River Museum of Art in which Swedish textiles communicate Museum of Fine Arts, Houston exhibition is co-organized by the Asian www.toledomuseum.org Chadds Ford, PA class, gender, cultural identity and social Houston, TX Art Museum of San Francisco and the Through September 18, 2016 www.brandwine.org trends. Highlights from the collection www.mfah.org National Palace Museum, Taipei. This exhibition, which coincides Through September 5, 2016 include examples of Saami outerwear, October 2, 2016–January 22, 2017 with a year-long celebration of the 10th Swedish provincial costumes, household The two dozen objects in Texas Sil- Virginia anniversary of the museum’s Glass decorated wares from the Winterthur linens, decorative wall hangings, tools ver from the William J. Hill Collection Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments Pavilion,® features about 70 sculptural Museum These collection ceramic vases date primarilyand floral- and modern examples of Swedish style. tell the story of Texas metalwork from for America, 1700–1830 works in glass, including both historic from the 1700s and 1800s and were the mid-19th century, when artisans DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts and contemporary objects by contem- produced in America, Europe and Asia. Texas established a local sensibility in table- Museums porary North American, European, Objects include high-fashion wares The Lavish Prince Regent ware and other household silver, to later Art Museums of Colonial Williams- Australian and Asian studio artists, as- and pieces for the less-wealthy. Some Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/ in the century, when consumer prefer- burg sembled from private collections. Many designs imitate imagery from botanical Rienzi Collection ence shifted to mass-produced work by Williamsburg, VA of the objects on display have never publications while others feature origi- Houston, TX northeastern manufacturers. September 3–TO COME been exhibited in public before. nality not found in nature. www.mfah.org/visit/rienzi Changing Keys: Keyboard In- Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Sweetmeat stand, earthenware, lead glaze, Works are in thematic groups: the Through July 31, 2016 struments for America, 1700–1830 1765–1770, West Pans, East Lothian, Scotland. - Flowers & Monsters: Hand-carved Treasure from Berthouville features 28 examples of organs, harp- William Littler (British, 1724–1784). Gift of scapes, vessel forms, the spirit world, Furniture by Karl von Rydingsvärd Museum of Fine Arts, Houston sichords and pianos from its collection, Mint Museum Auxiliary. abstracthuman figure, forms, animals and outer and space. plants, Fea- land American Swedish Historical Museum Houston, TX along with three recently conserved British Ceramics 1675–1825 pres- tured artists include Joyce Scott, Nicho- Philadelphia, PA www.mfah.org keyboard instruments. Two are “orga- ents more than 200 highlights of this las Africano, Tom Moore, Kimiake www.americanswedish.org November 6, 2016–February 5, 2017 nized pianos,” as they were called in collection in a new installation, includ- Higuchi, Preston Singletary, Debora Ongoing This exhibition celebrates the con- the period to describe pianos in which ing many objects that have never before Moore, Tobias Møhl, William Morris, This exhibition features wood servation of a cache of ancient Roman ranks of organ pipes are also playable been on view, as well as contemporane- Ann Wolff and Leon Applebaum. furniture from the early 20th century, treasure, known as the Berthouville from the same keyboard, and the third ous works of art in from holdings in oth- The exhibition is made possible providing examples of the era’s Arts Treasure is the harpsichord that George Washing- er media, including furniture, fashion by 2016 Exhibition Program Sponsor and Crafts movement through works by farmer in 1830. Conserved by the J. ton ordered for his step-granddaughter and silver. The objects are interpreted , first discovered by a French ProMedica, museum members and a the Swedish-born craftsman Karl von Paul Getty Museum and presented and played at his plantation home, on through function, style, manufacturing sustainability grant from the Ohio Arts Rydingsvärd. Items have been borrowed there in 2014, the gilt-silver statuettes loan from George Washington’s Mount technique and maker. Council. by the artist’s family and other works and vessels are presented alongside Vernon. The exhibition’s opening follows In 1962, glass pioneer Harvey from the early 1900s. He decorated the objects from the royal collections of the One of the organized pianos is the the release of a 270-page, illustrated Littleton, then a pottery instructor, re- chairs, chests, tables and panels that Cabinet des Médailles of the Biblio- only surviving organized upright grand catalog, British Ceramics 1675–1825: ceived the support of TMA director Otto he made with vines, fruits, medieval thèque nationale de France (Paris). piano and, at 9 feet tall and 7 feet wide, The Mint Museum, produced by the Wittmann to conduct a glass workshop knights, Gothic pointed arches, Celtic Organized by the Getty in col- was thought to be the largest and most museum in collaboration with D. Giles to explore molten glass in a studio knots and Norse monsters. His family laboration with the Département des complex domestic musical instrument Ltd. (London, England). Both the cata- setting rather than a factory. Although coat of arms appears on some objects as King George IV, 1821, enamel on gold, 9K rose Monnaies, médailles et antiques of the in American when it arrived in Wil- log and the exhibition honor the 50th initial attempts to fuse molten glass us- well. gold, embossed metallic foil and glass; Henry Bibliothèque nationale, the exhibition liamsburg from London in 1977. anniversary of the museum’s purchase ing an experimental furnace failed, the Von Rydingsvärd was born in 1863 Bone. Bequest of Caroline A. Ross. comes to the Museum of Fine Arts, of the Delhom Collection of British and artists were able to realize the funda- in Sweden and ended up working in The Lavish Prince Regent surveys Houston, as part of a U.S. tour. Portals to the Past: British Ceramics European ceramics. mental requirements for the new studio furniture factories in Boston and New the “Regency Style” developed by King 1675–1825 Portals to the Past is presented techniquewith assistance from artist York. He created schools for female George IV. Before his accession to the Emperors’ Treasures: Chinese Art Mint Museum Randolph by the Delhom Service League, the and master glass craftsman Dominick carvers in New York, NY, and Brunswick, British throne in 1821, he served as from the National Palace Norfolk, VA Labino on furnace construction. ME, and taught at Columbia University, Prince Regent of the nation during the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston www.mintmuseum.org Additional exhibition support is from the Rhode Island School of Design and mental illness and incapacitation of Houston, TX Ongoing Mooreceramics & affiliateVan Allen of .the Mint Museum.

28 /Spring In 1969, 2016 TMA became the first Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/29 Washington “Mrs. M.–––––” is a mysterious char- David Drake (ca. 1800–1870s), of objects, from print sources and stove David Willis: Daisies acter who exists somewhere between known as “Dave the Potter” or just plates to chairs and bed posts. Museum of Glass ing assistant and flameworking studio and polishing rather than the hot glass “Dave,” created monumental ceramic Tacoma, WA coordinator. techniques more widely known in the allow the Chipstone Foundation to tell vessels. His story and craftsmanship The Chipstone Cosmos www.museumofglass.org Willis’s work is in public, private - Pacific Northwest. unexpectedfact and fiction. true Her stories tale aboutand collection early inspire The Dave Project gallery, which Milwaukee Art Museum Through August 2016 and museum collections nationally and Pilchuck Huchthausen has played a role in America. Handcrafted by artisans, Mrs. celebrates the stories and skills of Milwaukee, WI - internationally. Glass School, CorningHe has been an instruc Museum of the evolution of glass from craft to fine M.–––––’s Cabinet is inspired by the African American artisans through http://mam.org torGlass of flameworking at the Penland School of Crafts art form as a recipient of Fulbright U.S. McKim, Mead and White interiors in works by Thomas Commeraw, Ongoing Portland-based artist David Wil Niijima Glass Art Festival student grants, professor, museum the Isaac Bell House (Newport, RI). Thomas Day, David Drake, Miligan These eight historical objects— lis made this installation during his (NY), consultant and artist. His work has been Frazier, John Hemmings, John Sable, from the earliest porcelain made in Visiting Artist residency at the museum Picking Up Artand Deco from the David Huchthausen (Japan). exhibited in more than 400 national and Rich Williams and others. America to a 200-year-old reindeer Whatin May I’m 2012. It is a portion of a larger Putting Down Collection international exhibitions and is included hide excavated from the bottom of the installation of glass daisies, Museum of Glass in more than 65 museum permanent English Channel—evoke the night sky. , that includes Tacoma, WA collections. Each highlighted star is associated with flowers that play with scale and the www.museumofglass.org While an architecture student at - a particular image or idea linked to that viewer. October 8, 2016–September 2017 University of Wisconsin-Marathon object. As a flameworker, Willis often David Huch- County in 1970, Huchthausen discov works alone and on a small scale. His thausen Harveyered an abandoned glass furnace. After Littleton - International 2012 residency gave him access to the Collector and artist six months of struggle, he learned about Napoleon in Saint Helena – His Fight museum’s Hot Shop and Hot Shop Team, debuts a selection of his Art ’s work at Univer for His Story which let him increase the scale of his Deco glass collection, highlighting the - sity of Wisconsin-Madison. He was Musee de l’Armee project. historic European roots of the Studio Littleton’s graduate assistant in the Paris, France Glass movement with works of art char early 1970s and then rose to scholarly http://www.musee-armee.fr/en/ acterized by smooth lines, geometric posts, including as director of the glass Mrs. M.---’s Cabinet, showcasing works in english-version.html shapes, streamlined forms and bright program at Illinois State University in ceramics, porcelain, tile and more. Through July 24, 2016 colors dating back to the 19th and 20th 1976 and lecturing across Europe as a The Chipstone Foundation has part- centuries. IntoFulbright Fellow in 1977 and 1978. the Deep nered with the Milwaukee Art Muse- Objects include 100 Koloman Moser,works René of art Jules Museum of Glass um for more than 15 years to share its Works in ceramic, various artists. by Art Nouveau and Art Deco artists, Tacoma, WA collection of early American furniture, including www.museumofglass.org ceramics and prints and English ceram- The Art of Carving DavidLalique and Johann Loetz. Huchthausen: A Retrospective September 24, 2016–September 2017 ics with the community. Milwaukee Art Museum Selection Milwaukee, WI Museum of Glass NEO http://mam.org Tacoma, WA This exhibition introduces visitors Milwaukee Art Museum Ongoing www.museumofglass.org to the similar properties of glass and Milwaukee, WI Carving is more than just a type of July 23, 2016–January 8, 2017 water. Objects reflect the movements, http://mam.org decoration. It can augment forms and textures, shapes and colors associated Ongoing with being underwater through the In this exhibition, contemporary a design, communicate ideas and stimu- structural details, emphasize the flow of Daisies, flameworked glass. medium of glass and demonstrates the artists investigate material, emotional, late the imagination. many Intoways the the medium of glass can be Deep esthetic and intellectual links between This gallery explores the “Art and used to make art. past and present at the heart of NEO Mysterie” of carving through examples Willis is inspired by the natural includes more than Alfredo (from the Greek neos; “young” or of 18th-century American decorative world, relationships that people have Barbini,55 pieces, 15 of which Dale Chihuly,were Shayna made in Leib, “new”). arts. with nature and beauty of forms in the Museum of Glass Hot Shop. Kelly O’Dell, Kait Rhoads, Raven Sky- The exhibition features works by everyday life. He uses glass in a cross-- river Hiroshi Yamano Jennifer Anderson, Elizabeth Duffy, disciplinary manner. His body of work Sarah Lindley, Beth Lipman, Thomas includes, and often combines, flame and are among Loeser, Gord Peteran and Jim Rose, working, hot blowing and sculpting, the 16 artists featured in the exhibition.Wisconsin including pieces commissioned for NEO. botanical models, mixed media, cold Mrs. M. ----’s Cabinet Lipman’s Secretary with Chipmunk assembly, and installation art. - Mirage, cut, laminated, and optically polished Milwaukee Art Museum (2015) uses sculptural glass elements to Celestial globe, featuring a map of the sky Willis earned a BA in social glass 10 1/2 x 8 x 7 in. (26.7 x 20.3 x 17.8 cm), Milwaukee, WI replace parts of an 18th-century Boston composed of stars and clouds as identified change from the University of Califor 1996. David Huchthausen (American, born http://mam.org bombé desk and bookcase that had been by astronomers of the time. © MAEDI/david- nia Berkeley in 1992, with a minor in 1951). Collection of the artist. Photo: Lloyd Ongoing added by a 20th-century forger. bordes.com. Shugart. conservation and resources studies. He Mrs. M.––––– ’s Cabinet Detail, carved wooden chair. This exhibition, organized in con- David has been working in glass since 1994, Bob Snodgrass Chipstone Founda- The Dave Project The gallery brings together 50 junction with efforts to restore the fur- when he began an apprenticeship with - Huchthausen , a new Milwaukee Art Museum examples of early American carving niture from Longwood House, features Over four decades of work, tion flameworker Roger Parramore. He went installation by the Milwaukee, WI from both local and national collections. objects from Napoleon’s residence on has made an impact on on to study with and Pilchuckwork Glass as a teach School (Milwaukee, WI), is a 19th-century http://mam.org Two videos created for the gallery help the island of Sainte Helena, such as his the history of contemporary glass, with ing assistant for . -He interior filled with diverse objects found Ongoing engage comparisons among a variety pool table, bath, camp bed and clothes. much of his art using the slower, cold- attended the in the British Atlantic colonies in the from 1997–2005 as a student, teach working glass processes such as cutting 30/Spring 2016 Newsletter17th century. of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2016/31 Contributions

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