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Newsletter/Fall 2017 the DAS DAS the Decorative Arts Society, Inc newsletter/fall 2017 Volume 25, Number 2 Decorative Arts Society The DAS DAS The Decorative Arts Society, Inc. in 1990 for the encouragement of interest in, the appreciation of and the exchange of information about the decorative arts. To, is pursuea not-for-profit its purposes, New theYork DAS corporation sponsors foundedmeetings, programs, seminars, tours and a newsletter on the decorative arts. Its supporters include Newsletter museum curators, academics, collectors and dealers. Please send change-of-address information by e-mail to [email protected]. Board of Directors Gerald W. R. Ward Editor President Senior Consulting Curator Gerald W. R. Ward Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of Susan P. Schoelwer Senior Consulting Curator & American Decorative Arts and Robert H. Smith Senior Curator Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator Sculpture Emeritus George Washington’s Mount Vernon of American Decorative Arts and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Mount Vernon, VA Sculpture Emeritus Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Treasurer Robert C. Smith Award Committee Boston, MA Stewart G. Rosenblum, Esq. Jeannine Falino, Chair Coordinator Secretary Independent Curator and Museum Consultant New York, NY Ruth E. Thaler-Carter Moira Gallagher Freelance Writer/Editor Research Assistant Lynne Bassett Rochester, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume and Textile Historian New York, NY Dennis Carr Program Chairperson Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Emily Orr American Decorative Arts and Assistant Curator of Modern and Sculpture The DAS Newsletter is a publication Contemporary Design Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Institution Boston, MA purpose of the DAS Newsletter is to serve as Design Museum a forum for communication about research, New York, NY Suzanne Findlen Hood exhibitions, publications, conferences and Curator of Ceramics and Glass other activities pertinent to the serious Margaret Caldwell Colonial Williamsburg Foundation study of international and American deco- Williamsburg, VA rative arts. Listings are selected from press Judith Hernstadt releases and notices posted or received Emily Orr Committees from institutions, and from notices submit- Assistant Curator of Modern and ted by individuals. We reserve the right Charles F. Montgomery Prize and Contemporary Design to reject material and to edit material for Award Committee Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Institution length or clarity. Wendy Cooper, Chair Design Museum We do not cover commercial galleries. Curator Emerita of Furniture New York, NY The DAS Newsletter welcomes submis- Winterthur Museum Diane Wright sions, preferably in digital format, by e-mail Wilmington, DE Curator of Glass in Plain Text or as Word attachments, or Toledo Museum of Art on a CD. Images should be at high quality Nancy Carlisle Toledo, OH (400 dpi), as TIFFs or JPEGs, either color or Senior Curator of Collections black-and-white, with detailed captions. Historic New England Karen Zukowski The newsletter of the DAS is published Boston, MA Independent Writer specializing in the two times a year. Submission deadlines for visual culture of 19th-century America 2018 are: March 1 for the spring issue; September 1 for the fall issue. Send mate- rial to: Ruth E. Thaler-Carter, DAS Newsletter Coordinator 2500 East Avenue, #7K Rochester, NY 14610 or: Cover image: [email protected] Pair of armlets, silver and enamel, Hazara, Punjab (now Pakistan), ca. 1888, The DAS website may provide informa- among ornaments and other traditional craft objects representing the Punjab tion about events that fall between issues. region at the 1888 Glasgow International Exhibition. Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collections. See Exhibitions, John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in Newsletter design by Plum Crane. the Punjab and London, Bard Graduate Center (New York, NY). All content © Decorative Arts Society, Inc. DAS news From the president Reveling in an array of interesting arts events By Susan Schoelwer, Robert H. Smith Senior Curator, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, VA t is once again my pleasure to send South, Manhattan (NY), and an extraor- greetings to all readers of the Deco- dinary three-day outing to upstate New Irative Arts Society newsletter. For York, highlighted by curator-guided me, one of the most rewarding aspects tours of the Tiffany mosaic exhibition of participating in the DAS over the at the Corning Museum of Glass and years has been our program offerings, the George Eastman House Museum, which have enticed me to actually visit plus visits to the studio of metalsmith (rather than just think about visiting) Albert Paley, an exhibition of art furni- any number of places of great interest. ture by Wendell Castle and a privately I am accordingly happy to report that owned Herter Brothers library. For we continue to offer an exciting array details, see below or go to our website of events, thanks to the efforts of our at www.DecArtsSociety.org. energetic program chair, Emily Orr, as- Through the DAS, I have greatly sistant curator at the Cooper Hewitt, enjoyed meeting others with like inter- Smithsonian Design Museum and ests in the decorative arts, and discuss- generous hosts at individual venues. ing ways in which we can share infor- mation and encourage further interest, report on our recent visit to and tour scholarship, exhibitions, publications, ofElsewhere Brooklyn’s in thisGreen-Wood issue, you Cemeterywill find a and collecting. and the Brooklyn Museum (NY). An upcoming issue will feature volunteer organization, I am par- which we can provide better service to coverage of our visit to the Thoreau ticularly Because keen w toe areencourage a nonprofit, broad all- and exhibit at the Morgan Library and active participation. Please send news ideas! Museum in Manhattan. of appointments, promotions, opportu- the field.In closing, I look Iforward thank all to D hearingAS support your- You can also look forward to future nities, programs, exhibitions, acquisi- ers for the generous contributions that reports of a visit to the National Arts tions, award nominations – and do let support our newsletter and other ac- Club, located in the historic Samuel me know (spschoelwer@mountvernon. tivities. I look forward to hearing from Tilden Mansion on Grammercy Park org) if you have suggestions of ways in you or seeing you at future events. DAS tours Rochester and Corning sites In this issue s this issue of the DAS newslet- the Corning Museum of Glass (CMOG; - NY) with co-curators Kelly Conway, Atributors were gearing up for curator of American glass at Corn- a fascinatingter was trip being to Rochester finalized, conand ing, and Lindsy Parrott, director and DAS news 1 Corning, NY. curator of the Neustadt Collection of Montgomery Prize 2 Recent DAS tours 3–7 The event includes a visit to the Tiffany Glass (Long Island, NY) and a studio and archive of metalsmiths - Events 8 Albert Paley; guided tour of Wendell an Gallery with Kit Maxwell, curator of Castle Remastered, at the Memorial Europeanformer DAS glass officer; at Corning; the CMOG the Europe Mod- News 9 Art Gallery (MAG; Rochester, NY) ern and Contemporary galleries with Alexandra Ruggiero, assistant curator Acquisitions 10 digitally crafted works of studio and art at Corning; and the Juliette and Leon- People 11 furniture— the first movement exhibition leader to examine Wendell the ard S. Rakow Research Library with Castle; and free time to explore MAG library staff. Exhibitions 15 collections; and guided tours of the Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics exhibition at issue of the DAS newsletter. Highlights will be in the first 2018 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2017/1 DAS presents Montgomery Prize to outstanding new work of 2016 Lead author Patricia Kane (above) and describing a drawer during a 2016 DAS tour of the American Decorative Arts Furniture Study of the Yale University Art Gallery. he DAS has chosen an outstand- tackled the most holistic study ever and Providence and by makers such ing publication as the recipient undertaken, stretching over a decade, as John Goddard and Samuel and Jo- Tof its 2016 Montgomery Prize. has there been such an informative and seph Rawson, Jr., the catalog showcas- The Montgomery Award will be an- enlightened publication,” said award es simpler examples made in smaller committee chair Wendy Cooper, towns. More than 100 entries detail DAS Newsletter. curator emerita of furniture, Winter- marks and inscriptions, bibliography, nouncedThe 2016 in the Mont springgomery 2018 Prizeissue goesof the thur Museum, Garden and Library and provenance. New photographs en- to Art & Industry in Early America, (Winterthur, DE). “‘Comprehensive’ is courage a deeper understanding of this Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, by hardly adequate to describe the extent school of American furniture making. Patricia Kane, Friends of American to which she and the other authors Art & Industry in Early America Arts Curator of American Decorative went to discover primary documents also received the 2017 Historic New Arts, Yale University Art Gallery and dissect the actual objects. England Book Prize. (New Haven, CT), with Dennis Carr, “Accompanying this superior publi- Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of cation is an ever-evolving website titled About the DAS Montgomery Prize American Decorative Arts and Sculp- the Rhode Island Furniture Archive The DAS presents the Montgomery ture, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston (RIFA), an additional resource that will Prize in memory of Charles F. Mont- (MA); Nancy Goyne Evans, author, continue to augment the publication.” gomery, a director of the Winterthur Windsor-Chair Making in America: Art & Industry in Early America Museum, curator of the Garvan and From Craft Shop to Consumer (2005), examines furniture made throughout related collections at the Yale Univer- American Windsor Chairs (1996) and Rhode Island from the earliest days of sity Art Gallery, and a professor of American Windsor Furniture: Spe- the settlement to the late Federal pe- the history of art at Yale University, an cialized Forms (1997); Jennifer N.
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