Decorative Arts Society Volume 20, Number1 Volume newsletter spring2012 DAS Newsletter DAS news Volume 20 Editor Number 1 Gerald W.R. Ward Submissions for both awards and Senior Consulting Curator & DAS reorganizes awards program the prize are welcome. Self-nominations Spring 2012 Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator The DAS he DAS is reorganizing its are permitted. Nominations and copies of American Decorative Arts and of relevant works may be sent to: Sculpture Emeritus awards process. Gerry Ward, The DAS Newsletter is a publication Gerald W.R. Ward Museum of Fine Arts, Boston TSenior Consulting Curator, of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. The Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), Senior Consulting Curator & purpose of the DAS Newsletter is to serve as is now head of the Charles F. Mont- Katharine Lane Weems Senior a forum for communication about research, The Decorative Arts Society, Inc., is a not- Coordinator gomery Committee, which presents Curator of American Decora- exhibitions, publications, conferences and tive Arts and Sculpture other activities pertinent to the serious Ruth E. Thaler-Carter both an award and a prize for books on in 1990 for the encouragement of interest Emeritus study of international and American deco- Freelance Writer/Editor in,for-profit the appreciation New York of,corporation and the exchange founded of North American decorative arts. rative arts. Listings are selected from press Rochester, NY information about the decorative arts. To Museum of Fine Arts, Boston releases and notices posted or received pursue its purposes, the Society sponsors is presented annually to the scholar(s) 465 Huntington Avenue from institutions, and from notices submit- Advisory Board meetings, programs, seminars, and a news- The award, first presented in 1979, ted by individuals. We reserve the right to Michael Conforti letter on the decorative arts. Its supporters Ward Michie or: reject material and to edit materials for Director include museum curators, academics, col- whose first major publication in the Tom Michie, Russell B. and Andrée ThomasBoston, MA 02115 S. Michie length or clarity. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute lectors and dealers. workfield of American decorative arts published in the previous year.was Beauchamp Senior Curator of Decora- Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp We do not cover commercial galleries. Williamstown, MA judged the most outstanding such tive Arts and Sculpture, Art of Europe, Senior Curator of Decorative The DAS Newsletter welcomes submis- Officers Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is now Arts and Sculpture, Art of sions, preferably in digital format, submit- and is awarded to the most distin- Wendy Kaplan President The prize was first presented in 1982 the head of the Robert C. Smith Com- Europe ted by e-mail in Plain Text or as Word Department Head and Curator, guished contribution to the study of David L. Barquist Museum of Fine Arts, Boston attachments, or on a CD and accompanied Decorative Arts American decorative arts published in mittee, which aims to recognize the H. Richard Dietrich, Jr., Curator by a paper copy. Images should be provided Los Angeles County Museum of Art the English language by a North Ameri- best article on decorative arts pub- 465 Huntington Avenue of American Decorative Arts at high quality (400 dpi), preferably as Los Angeles, CA can scholar in the previous year. lished within a given year. TIFFs or JPEGs, either color or black-and- Philadelphia Museum Art Philadelphia, PA white, with detailed captions. Cheryl Robertson Boston, MA 02115 The newsletter of the DAS is published Independent Scholar, Curator two times a year at this time. Submission and Museum Consultant Treasurer Winterthur tour features Save the date for the deadlines for 2012: February 28 for the Cambridge, MA Stewart G. Rosenblum, Esq. spring issue; August 30 for the fall issue. New York, NY next DAS event! lans are underway for the Please send material to: Charles Venable up-close insights into Ruth E. Thaler-Carter, Director & CEO Secretary DAS to offer a New Jersey DAS Newsletter Coordinator Speed Art Museum Veronica Conkling southeast Pennsylvania arts Pday trip on September 15, 2500 East Avenue, #7K Louisville, KY Independent Researcher 2012, that will include visits to a By Elsie Heyrman Klumpner, Silver Spring, MD As Cooper and Minardi say in the Rochester, NY 14610 Washington, DC distinguished private collection, Gillian Wilson bout a dozen contributors to the catalog, the decorative art traditions as well as several historic houses [email protected] Curator of Decorative Arts Members Wendy A. Cooper, overseen by the Monmouth Coun- J. Paul Getty Museum Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Communications A ty Historical Association. Details 585-248-8484, phone Los Angeles, CA Senior DASCurator joined of Furniture at Win- cohesiveformed during this time reflected regional style. Other historical“… a Monika Schiavo will reach DAS contributors by mail 585-248-3638, fax terthur, and Lisa Minardi, assistant itemsgreat mixed multitude such as portraits,…” books, rather than a boxes, Smithsonian-Mason History of Ghenete Zelleke curator of Furniture for the Southeast- textiles, and tools supplemented the To better serve our contributors and Decorative Arts Associate Curator, European ern Pennsylvania Furniture Proj- furniture and elaborated on the cura- the decorative arts community, the DAS Decorative Arts Washington, DC as soon as they are finalized. ect tors’ approach. website may provide information about Art Institute of Chicago events that fall between issues. Chicago, IL Programs Winterthur’s Paint, Pattern & People: Cooper and Minardi took turns in- Nicholas Vincent Furniture, for a November 12, 2011, tour of of Southeastern Pennsylva- troducing the group to each of the four In this issue Research Associate, American nia, 1725–1850 exhibition. themed sections of the exhibit: The Decorative Arts In the catalog that accompanied People: A Great Mixed Multitude; Places: Metropolitan Museum of Art the exhibition, of the same title as Regional Forms and Local Expressions; DAS news 1–3 New York, NY the exhibition, the curators clearly Families: Owners and Inheritors; and DAS reorganizes awards programs, tours Winterthur state their approach: to use furniture Makers: From Cradle to Coffin. They and the Met, plans New Jersey examples to document “localisms” of Please send change-of-address event form, ornament, and construction. section of the exhibit and illustrated News 4 Cover image: information by e-mail to Secretary@ DecArtsSociety.org. highlighted individual objects in each Events 5 Tall case clock, walnut with inlay of maple and other light woods, tulip poplar, ethnic, religious, and personal prefer- of southern Pennsylvania society and Acquisitions 7 brass, lead, and painted iron; c. 1800; attributed to William Cock, cabinet- These ences thatwere characterized influenced by southeastern the diverse howculture. each piece fit into the patchwork People 9 maker, American, b. England (1776–1856); Carnegie Museum of Art, Berdan Newsletter design by Plum Crane. Exhibitions 11 All content ©2012 Decorative Arts Society. Memorial Trust Fund and Richard King Mellon Foundation, by exchange. See Continued on next page Exhibitions. Pennsylvania during the late 18th and An 18th-century immigrant chest, early 19th centuries. Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./1 the English Regency style to the bold Winterthur tour, continued DAS enjoys tour at Metropolitan veneers and heavy scrolled outlines of down through Montgomery family the church to the cemetery, and corpse the late Grecian style. Phyfe’s com- County’s early German community, members from the time of its creation traysbiers for transporting the coffin from storing the body before it was Museum of Art led by Peter Kenny mercial activity and real estate inter- ca. 1737, a rare find from Lancaster People: A Great ests are realized in a recreation of his Mixed Multitude section. Documents In Families: Owners and Inheritors, The Moravians stored bodies of the By Nicholas Vincent, DAS board member and Research Associate, showroom on Fulton Street at the start indicatewas the first stop in the that German immigrant Hans Cooperuntil the late 20th-century. and Minardi used furniture deceasedplaced in the coffin. on corpse trays in a corpse American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY of the exhibition. Martin Amweg owned the chest. It passed down through several genera- house, or Leichenkapellchen, for three n March 5, 15 participants en- Metropolitan and was the next area of The event also offered an opportu- traveled with Amweg from Germany tions to illustrate how the continuity of days before burial, to ensure that the joyed a private DAS tour of New the tour. nity to study Phyfe’s work in relation to Pennsylvania, where its function family ownership preserved details of deceased was indeed dead. The corpse OYork architecture and interior Once in the Van Rensselaer Room, to his competitors, notably Michael Al- changed from a chest for travel to one tray was made of wood and consisted furnishings in the Metropolitan Mu- participants were captivated by the lison, Charles Honore Lannuier, and for storage in Amweg’s new home. seum of Art (New York, NY), hosted by contrast between the home of Winne, Joseph Meeks & Sons. Kenny provided Upon his death, the chest passed to his thethe maker, owner and style. An object’s localisms of handcraftsmanship with handholds to facilitate carrying. Peter M. Kenny, Ruth Bigelow Wris- built in 1751 in an antiquated Dutch a memorable lesson in connoisseurship wife. andhistory helps us understand and define cultural tradition that gives every Theof a flat lengthtray of with raised sides, pierced the trays varied and some ton Curator and Administrator of the style, and the roughly contemporane- by comparing a swivel-top card table Such chests, used by Germans who examples were painted. American Wing and an expert in New ous, yet grandly pretentious, fashion- by Allison to one attributed to Phyfe, made ocean voyages to the New World, One important aspect of the York architecture and furniture. The able and decidedly English Georgian- pointing out subtle differences in the received rough treatment during the object its individual character. exhibit was the curators’ deliberate focus on New York through the Met- style manor house of Van Rensselaer, proportions and carving and stressing ship’s passage. That it survived at all effort to debunk a number of long- ropolitan’s Three Centuries of New completed in 1768. The former the consistent precision and quality makes this one a true treasure. The accepted myths about the residents of York Architecture and Furniture entrance hall features a large arched found in Phyfe’s work. chest retains its original iron hardware, galleries was intended as a primer for opening with rococo-style carving in The group also examined a suite and two paper labels found with it they discussed the term “Pennsylvania the DAS spring trip to Albany, Utica and the spandrels. It originally led to the of labeled and dated Phyfe furniture identify it as belonging to the Amweg Dutch,”southeastern Pennsylvania. Specifically, which they said has long been Cooperstown in early May (details will stairs, while the two openings on the made for the southern market that family. used incorrectly. The word “Dutch” was be in the next issue of the DAS Newslet- opposite wall led to front and back combines elements of Phyfe’s early Another piece on display in Winterthur. derived from a mispronunciation of ter). parlors. The entrance hall was sparsely and late styles. Kenny likened the this section was a painted portrait Against this background, the cura- the word “Deutsch,” meaning German. The tour took place on a Monday, furnished in Van Rensselaer’s time, but labels to “freshness dating” on milk entitled“Young Moravian Girl, by John tors presented a group of Pennsylvania Scholars now prefer the designation when the museum was closed to the in the grocery store today. Compar- Valentine Haidt German painted chests called “dower “Pennsylvania German” as a more ac- public, creating an intimate setting and examples of New York Chippendale- ing a Phyfe pier table to one by Joseph portrait came from the Moravian com- chests.” Traditionally, the dower chest curate label. privileged access to the collections. stylenow, inchairs the museum,and tables. contains first-rate Meeks & Sons, both made in the 1830s , dated 1755–60. The munity of Bethlehem, PA. Details in this - The curators also corrected an- Kenny began in the Early Colonial The tour concluded with an in- in the scrolled-and-veneered Grecian unusual portrait reveal the status of a cally for young, single females to collect other myth—that of the “plain Quaker,” depth look at the work of Duncan style, helped highlight the challenges young girl in the Moravian community: wasand defined as a chest made specifistore household goods intended whose furniture was modest and explained some of the curatorial aims Phyfe as represented in Kenny’s ex- that Phyfe faced from competitors like Her costume, including a bonnet fas- for their use after marriage. Evidence undecorated. Many examples of Quaker behindgalleries the on renovation the third floor, of the where period he hibition on this master cabinetmaker. Meeks, who offered furniture at a lower tened with a red ribbon, indicates that shows, however, that young men were furniture were highly decorated with rooms and furniture galleries. A journey through Phyfe’s career price point. she was a member of a girls’ “choir” or also the recipients of these colorfully carving, inlay and even paint. From there, the group proceeded shows his stylistic evolution from the As a parting thought, Kenny em- social group. Young Moravians were as- painted chests and that their function Cooper and Minardi brought a to the recently installed New York restrained carving and thin lines of Continued on page 5 signed to choirs based on sex, age and was clearly for storage. remarkable exhibit to life in this tour. Dutch Room from outside Albany. marital status. These choirs organized With recently uncovered documentary Kenny pointed out the room’s dis- members of the Moravian Church into for Adam Minnich in Bern Township, information and a plethora of carefully tinctive Netherlandish architectural groups who lived, worked, worshiped Berks A 1796 chest-over-drawers, made County, was decorated with lions features, such as the framework of and traditionally were buried together. and unicorns. These motifs could be curators tied together the disparate H-shaped post-and-beam supports In the section Places: Regional seen as masculine forms; however, the expressionspreserved 18th-century objects, the of cultures, craft traditions known as anchor-bents and the jamb- Forms and Local Expressions, the cura- discovery of a matching chest inscribed and religious practices that represent “Marichen (little Maria) Grim” demon- southeastern Pennsylvania. hood and a massive cornice with a dome-top desk-and-bookcase, made strates that the decoration was con- printedless fireplace cotton with valance. an overhanging He observed tors focused on a finely crafted double for William Montgomery of Chester sidered appropriate for either gender. that, although the room dates to Minnich’s chest has inscriptions that Let the us know of 1751—long after the British takeover with an unusual type of inlay called tell us who owned it and when it was of New York, it is purely 17th-century County. Dated 1725–40 and decorated upcoming events in line-and-berry, this desk-and-bookcase made for him; a detail rarely found on Dutch in style and technique. is an extremely rare example of that such chests is the location where he the decorative arts! Kenny also told tour participants inlaid decoration. This method of orna- lived. Send about Daniel Winne, the original own- er of the New York Dutch Room, who Welsh Quakers who settled in Chester Makers: From Cradle to Coffin, featured announcements to: was a tenant farmer on the Van Rensse- ment dates to the early 1700s, and the County are credited with originating a Moravian The final section of the exhibit, corpse tray, a thoroughly laer estate. He reminded the group that it. The slender inlay shows the outline one of the patroons, or manorial lords, newsletter@ to whom Winne paid annual tribute terminate in the three-lobed berries variousfunctional piece of work, dated 1775– ethnic and religious groups DecArtsSociety. was Stephen Van Rensselaer II. The of flower blossoms and tendrils, which that give it its name. in1800 from Bethlehem, southeastern Pennsylvania,PA. Among the funer- org grand entrance hall from Van Rens- As with many pieces in the exhibit, ary equipment customarily consisted selaer’s manor house in Albany, built the desk-and-bookcase was passed in the late 1760s, is also on view in the New York Dutch Room, Bethlehem, NY, 1751. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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50th anniversary of studio glass art Baltimore Museum of Art Lab, the media and technology group The rebuilt furnace operated be- in America (MD) will open its newly renovated at the Indianapolis Museum of Art side one of TMA’s new state-of-the-art Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass Sun-God fireback, cast iron, in and • reinstalled The contemporary art wing Wet Dog furnaces in a literal illustra- C. A. Wellington & Co. House- (AACG) Cranbrook Academy of Art tion of how far the studio movement hold Art Rooms, The Fire Throughout the USA - (IN) for the website redesign project. - has progressed with furnace technol- Place and Its Surroundings, Through December 2012 tionon November 17, 2012, completing the that will enhance the museum’s • The ogy. The original furnace was not used trade catalog (Boston, 1885), first phase of a $24.5-million renova (Bloomfield Hills, MI) has reopened af To celebrate the 50th anniversary of p. 16, Elihu Vedder, © 1882. studio glass art and recognize artists in Courtesy Special Collections storageter a two-year, $22-million renovation and mechanical systems. - Art Alliance for Contem- and Archives, James Branch presentation of three major collections with a 20,000-square-foot addition Denver Art Museum (CO)for ondagain after the first workshop but workshop, in June of that year.was porary Glass (AACG) has initiated glass Cabell Library, Virginia Com- artbma.org/renovation.in anticipation of its 100th Anniversary has a new website: reconfigured and modified Since there are no knownfor the secrender- demonstrations,the field, the lectures and exhibitions monwealth University. in 2014. ForCorning more information, visit Museum of Glass •http://www.denverartmuseum.org/ The in museums, galleries and art centers (NY) has redesigned its website (www. article/staff-blogs/dam-it-s-new-web- design required extensive research to cmog.org) • The with new content; increased site-top-5-changes-we-made recreateings of the first furnace, replicating the it. The rebuilt furnace will be Events include: access to the museum’s collection; used exclusively by the artists-in-resi- across the country throughout 2012. Michael Petry: The Touch of the as the Winterthur Program in Early new user-friendly features; and thou- Kim Harty, Amber Cowan and Mat- dence to work molten glass. Court End; American Palladian man- Oracle, Palm Springs Art Museum American Culture (WPEAC), and their sands of videos, articles, images, and thew • In March, artists-in-residence Szösz Georgia Museum of Art • sions, North and South; masters of the accomplishments. It is being held in resources on glass and glassmaking. furnace 50 years to the day after it was (Athens, GA) has opened its new The Legacy of Littleton: Har- A Last- An integrated search function gives recreated the first glass Toledo Museum of Art wing • The and renovated existing facility, (FL), through July 29, 2012 years of work at VCU on architectural ing Legacy: Sixty Years of Winterthur vey Littleton and his Wisconsin Colonial Revival; and a summary of 20 • history and the decorative arts. Graduateconjunction with the exhibition Programs (see Exhibitions). fired up at the Glass Program Students, Bergstrom records from the museum’s collection pioneers of the American Studio Glass Programming includes collec- visitors access to more than 200,000 (TMA; OR) to reflect the spirit of early with 30,000 square feet added to the Mahler Museum (Neenah, WI), Octo- of art and historical glass and the Ra- Movement. of new galleries, an exterior cloistered members of sponsoring institutions, tions tours led by WPAMC students; kow Research Library’s collection of The Toledo Workshop Revisited sculpturemuseum, including 16,000 square feet garden, an expanded lobby Admission is $8 per person for For new information on added conservation lab tours led by WUDPAC archival and reference materials on the Residency mirrored Harvey Littleton and additional collection storage space. to students with valid IDs. Reserva- events,ber 8, 2012–February 24, 2013 go to: http://contempglass. - history of glass and glassmaking. and Dominick Labino’s original work- Gluckman Mayner Architects (New tions$10 per person are necessaryfor others and free for three addi- sociate curator Ann Wagner (WPEAC The museum partnered with IMA tional events: a luncheon in honor ’04)students, object conversation with as and assistant conservator Lauren Traditions–IVorg/2012-celebration. Symposium on Fair shop of March 23–April 1, 1962. StanleyYork, NY) served as the design firm Beaman & Sears (Atlanta, (free) and reception at the restored Architectural History and the Presenters and sessions include: GA),for the project, in collaboration with as the architect of record and with Hancock-Wirt-Caskieof Brownell ($10), tour of Court End House Decorative Arts Ford (WUDPAC ’10). W. Bell, president, American To register, make checks pay- Virginia Commonwealth University/ Association of Museums; Margaret The galleries house selections from able to VCU Symposium and send ($15). to www.DecArtsSociety.org Virginia Historical Society Loew Craft thethe Office of University Architects. permanent collection of the mu- Symposium, Department of Art History, Richmond, VA Walters Art Mu- seum, with two featuring the decora- Virginia Commonwealth University, PO November 15, 2012 seum (Baltimore, (WUDPAC ’77), senior MD) and president, tive arts. Traditions–IV, directed by Profes- Americanobjects conservator, Institute for Conservation, Novem- sor Charles Brownell, caps two decades “The American Institute for Conserva- Study Centers in the berBox 843046, 922 West Franklin Street, 9, 2012. of Symposia on Architectural His- tion Turns 40”; William N. Hosley Humanities Another major addition is the , partly funded by the Richmond, For a brochureVA 23284-3046, or other byinforma- tory and the Decorative Arts from the Terra Firma Northeast, Nationalthird-floor Endowment for the Department of Art History in the School “Reaching and Teaching through Mate- Humanities. The Pierre Daura Cen- Krista Privott at [email protected]. of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth rial(WPEAC ’80), Culture”; Brock Jobe ter, Jacob Burns Foundation Cen- tion, call 804-628-7024 or e-mail to University (Richmond, VA). professor of American Decorative Arts, ter, Henry D. Green Center for the Reaching and Teaching through This year’s four sessions deal with “Winterthur Past, Present, (WPEAC ’72), Future: 60 Study of the Decorative Arts and C.L. Material Culture: A Winterthur Virginia’s Jeffersonian Capitol and Years of Winterthur Graduate Pro- Morehead Jr. Center for the Study of Graduate Program 60th grams”; “Cultural Material: Revitalizing American Art contain archives from Anniversary Symposium the museum’s collections and promote Met tour, continued Winterthur Museum, Gardens & Century,” Jonathan Prown, director, study and research in the humanities. phasized how the graceful lines and Library; University of Delaware; ChipstoneInterpretation and Display in the 21st Foundation; The renovated and expanded facility restrained ornament of the Phyfe table Society of Winterthur Fellows was designed in accordance with Lead- give it a timeless quality. Winterthur, DE Maintain: Availability, Acquisition, ership in Energy and Environmental The DAS tour with Peter Kenny www.winterthur.org Responsibility”—”The • “What to Collect & Market:How to Re- Design (LEED) standards. was an enriching experience. Partici- September 28–29, 2012 search Source and Inspiration,” Virginia Commonwealth Uni- pants left with new insights into the This symposium celebrates the Sumpter T. Priddy III versity (Richmond, VA) plans to build work of New York architects and arti- institutions, students and faculty Sumpter Priddy III, Inc.; “Shift in Au- an • Institute for Contemporary Art—a sans. The DAS is most grateful to Kenny Winter- dience Interests: The Renwick (WPEAC ’77), Gallery,” for being so generous with his time and thur Program in American Material Nicholas R. Bell members affiliated with the knowledge. Culture (WPAMC), originally known and Charles Bresler Curator of Ameri- 38,00-square-foot building, with the , (WPAMC ’08), Fleur opening planned for 2015. 4/Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./5 can Craft and Decorative Art, Renwick Carroll Kearney, collections conserva- er and former CMOG curator; “Creating Gallery, Smithsonian American Art tor, University at Albany Libraries. Context: American Studio Glass and Museum (Washington, DC); “Chal- For more details, go to http:// Ceramics,” Martha Drexler Lynn, Acquisitions lenges in Preserving and Presenting Modern Materials,” Gwynne Ryan craft and design; “The Early Years at Brooklyn Museum (NY) new Bourbon king, Philip V, had Hirsh- Celebratingwinterthur.org/?p=967. 50 Years of American Pilchuck:specialist in 20th- and 21st-century Mud, Glass and Glory,” has purchased a rare mother-of-pearl- ascended to the throne, Sarmiento, horn Museum and Sculpture Garden Studio Glass Oldknow; “Light in the Public Realm,” inlaid • The Mexican folding screen, com- a Habsburg-appointed viceroy, was (Washington,(WUDPAC ‘01), conservator, DC); 51st Annual Seminar on Glass James Carpenter, principal, James recalled to Spain; he returned with the Corning Museum of Glass Carpenter Design Associates Inc.; of New Spain, from Salvart Limited biombo enconchado. The screen was Collections”—“A Tale of Two Programs: Corning, NY “Freeing the Furnace from the Factory: (London,missioned about 1700 England). Representingby the viceroy a later divided into two in Europe, and Judiciously• “Technology and Accessing Using Technology,” Judy www.cmog.org Durk Valkema, combination of Asian, European and one half found its way to the United Guston - October 18–20, 2012 artist and director of Vrij Glas studio, American artistic traditions, the six- tor of Collections; Kathy Haas (WPEAC This event continues the year-long 32 Bricks and Beyond,” Amsterdam; “What’s the Big Idea?,” panel screen is encrusted with mother- in a private collection in San Fran- ’04), assistant (WPEAC ’99), curator and direc curator; Elyse Poinsett celebration of the 50th anniversary of Paul Marioni, artist; “The Double-X of-pearl and painted with oil and cisco;States itby entered 1965, when it the Museowas Nacional recorded - American studio glass. Factor,” Toots Zynsky, artist; “From tempera. It is believed to be the only del Virreinato keting associate, Rosenbach Museum Bellows to Lathes: the Legacy of recorded surviving shell-inlaid fold- Museum’s half was in the collection of &(WPAMC ’09), Special Events and Mar Library; “Where Is the Home for Contemporary Flameworking,” Beth ing screen, or biombo enconchado, that Cockfield Hallby (Yoxford, 1970. The Brooklyn Suffolk, Eng- Technology in Collections-Based Exhibi- Hylen, artist and reference and out- remained in private hands. land) for generations, until the family tions?,” Matt Kirchman, president, reach librarian, Rakow Library. sold its residual contents, including the ObjectIDEA; “Animated Maps: Using Italian maestro Lino Tagliapietra Digital Technology to Shed New Light gives a special glassblowing demon- Japanese folding screens, which on History,” Sean Moir, Historical GIS stration. inspiredscreen, at auction in 1996. the format of Mexican biom- Consulting, gDMS, Inc.; “Maximizing Programming includes gallery bos, were introduced to the Americas Technology for the Archimedes Palimp- tours of three exhibitions celebrating Abigail Quandt (WUDPAC the work of Harvey K. Littleton, Dom- gifts from Japanese embassies and elite - inick Labino and Erwin Eisch, as well Asianin the early 17th century as diplomatic exported goods. Asian screens tion,sest Project,” Walters Art Museum; Making Ideas: found immediate favor with the vice- in glass; Philip Moulthrop, Rude Os- ’82), head of Book and Paper Conserva Experiments in Design at GlassLab, royalty’s prosperous elite. By the olnik, David Ellsworth and Michelle Balancing Intellectual Relevance with whichas the major exhibition honors the spirit of freedom and The panels constitute half of a Holzapfel in wood; and Rudy Autio Popular • “Attracting Your Audience: Interest”— “Collaborative experimentation with artistic process the screens in a new-world style for and Akio Takamori in ceramics. The Curation?: The Brooklyn Museum’s that characterized the early years of models by artists working in the circle private1630s, local artists collectors. Paintingswere re-creating inlaid with Wolfs have also donated their library to ‘Click,” La Tanya S. Autry, Art History the American Studio Glass movement. of12-panel screen, created after Asian the González family in Mexico City. mother-of-pearl (pinturas enconcha- the museum’s Mary R. Schiff Library, Department, University of Delaware; The seminar also features a view- The other half of the screen is in the das and established an endowment to pre- “Popular Audiences Include Families! collection of the Museo Nacional del artists who combined the European art serve and expand the collection. Decorative Arts, Parents and Children,” The Ginny Ruffner Story”; the annual Virreinato (Tepotzotlán, Mexico). of tempera) developed about 1660, and oil painting withby Mexican Asian The Wolfs began collecting con- Beth A. Twiss Houting (WPEAC Ruby Conical Intersection with Amber Sphere, presentationing of the film of“A the Not So Still Life: museum’s Rakow The screen was commissioned and Mexican lacquer and mother-of- Harvey Littleton, 1984. Commission, a new work in glass by José Sarmiento de Valladares y pearl encrustation techniques. Art and Antiques magazine temporary craft 35 years ago. In March Services, Historical Society of Penn- Karol Wight, executive direc- commissioned for the permanent col- Aines, count of Moctezuma y Tula, The screen is the highlight of 2006, ’83), senior director of Programs and sylvania; Mary Jane Taylor (WPEAC tor of the Corning Museum of Glass lection; and a rare, behind-the-scenes during his reign as viceroy of New Behind Closed Doors: Power and Priv- collectors. Longtime supporters of the (CMOG), discusses important acqui- tour of glass installations at Corning ilege in the Spanish American Home, museum,named them among America’s top-100 the Wolfs have previously National Constitution Center; “Digital James Carpenter, Incorporated’s world headquarters. by Spain’s last Habsburg king, Charles 1492–1898, a traveling exhibition on Afterlife:’92), Research & Evaluation manager, Modern Technology Reveals Martha Drexler Lynn, Paul Mari- Researchers may take advantage of II,Spain from 1696 Sarmiento declaredto 1701. Appointed his allegiance view from September 20, 2013–Janu- glass to the collections and contributed sitions of 2012. donated 16 pieces of contemporary Secrets of Brooklyn’s Mummies,” Jakki oni, Ginny Ruffner, Durk Valkema, the Rakow Research Library’s extended to the Habsburg dynasty in the New ary 12, 2014 at the Brooklyn Museum. funds toward the acquisition of Dale Godfrey William Warmus and Toots Zynsky hours. World by having the front of his Tiffany windows that the Chihuly’s Rio Delle Torreselle Chande- Brooklyn Museum share their perspectives on the his- Registration for the full seminar monumental folding screen painted Cincinnati Art Museum (OH) ac- (Brooklyn, (WUDPAC ’07), assistant NY); and tory of studio glass in “Celebrating 50 includes all lectures, tours, receptions, • Four view in the museum lobby. lier (1996), which is permanently on object conservator, Years of American Studio Glass.” Jane and the annual dinner on Saturday eve- the Ottoman Empire—a scene from display at St. Michael’s and All Angels Illinois State Museum has Students”—”Rethinking Collections Adlin, associate curator, Metropolitan ning. Receptions and the annual dinner with a major Habsburg victory over Episcopalquired in December 2010, originally on Church in Avondale, are now • The and • Professional “Securing the Legacy Training: Makingfor Future Mu- Museum of Art (New York, NY); Dale are open only to registrants for the full requested a hunting scene modeled in counterpane from Dr. James and received a donation of a rare 1815 seums Matter to More People,” Cynthia and Doug Anderson, collectors; Doug seminar. partthe Great Turkish on prints by MediciWar (1683–87). court painterHe conservation (see cover). Sarah Haworth Filipiak. G. Falk - and Katya Heller, owners, Heller Gal- - Johannes Stradanus for the back of on permanent view after 17 months of The piece of needlework has been sor of Material Culture, Cooperstown lery; Elmerina and Paul Parkman, nar for museum/Ennion members; the screen, which would have served works from Nancy and David Wolf passed through the family for seven Graduate (WPEAC ’96), associate profes Program; “Emulating and collectors; and Tina Oldknow, cura- Fees are $225 for the whole semi as a backdrop for the women’s sitting from The museum also has received 264 their collection of contemporary generations and is among the earliest Evolving: The Cooper Hewitt Program,” tor of modern glass, CMOG, consider room in the palace. craft. The remainder of their collec- and most important additions to the Sarah E. Lawrence, dean, School of “Evolving Dynamics of Marketing and for$300, nonmembers; $175, students. the same categories. Some sessions Both sides are framed with a moth- tion is a promised bequest. The gift museum’s textile collection. It is un- Art and Design History and Theory, Collecting American.” willIndividual lectures be streamed, whichare $25, $30, $20 is free. includes works by the artists working usual with its intricately detailed and Parsons/The New School; “Distance Other presentations include: “Is For information, contact Public border, inspired by Japanese lacquer- in contemporary craft, including Dale Education Professional Development New Glass Old Glass?,” William War- - wareer-of-pearl encrusted floral decorative created for the export market. Chihuly, Lino Taglapietra, Jaroslava many varieties of stitches, in white Opportunities for Conservators,” Ann mus, independent curator and apprais- [email protected]. Brychtová and Stanislav Libenský highly figural scene, embroidered with Continued on next page Programs at 607-438-5500 or pub 6/Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring In 1701, only a year after Spain’s 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./7 cotton thread on a white cotton twill woven ground. A central medallion features a man People and woman standing in the center; the woman is in an Empire-styled dress been named the new director of the and holding wheat. Other elements in- Positions last summer’s Wedded Perfection: Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA). clude a brick house with a circular win- Timothy Close has resigned as 200interdivisional projects, including Years of Wedding Gowns, which Fairbanks has been working with dow in the gable, a barn surrounded by executive director/CEO of the Museum • doubled the museum’s attendance dur- museums for more than 50 years. He a fence with two workers harvesting of Glass (Tacoma, WA), effective Janu- ing its three-month run. was founder and curator emeritus of D’Ambrosio has lectured extensive- the Department of American Decorative with birds and insects. Outside the ary 3, 2012, having served in those ly throughout the country. The catalog Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of wheat, wheat fields, and a sky filled - Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio has roles since May 2006. for her exhibition A Brass Menagerie: Fine Arts, Boston ers with the words “Ann F. Carpenter’s been appointed director and chief Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement and has had a long-standing relation- medallion border is an array of flow curator • at the Munson-Williams- won four awards, including citations ship with Fuller Craft, (MA) from 1970–99, which recently stitched in the lower center. Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art from the Victorian Society in Amer- presented him with a Luminaries award Counter pane December 8th, 1815” An identical counterpane is at the (MWPAI; Utica, NY). She has served as ica, Victorian Society Metropolitan for his lifelong dedication to the arts. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation - Chapter, Association of Art Museum At the MFA, Boston, Fairbanks with the embroidered names “Alexan- assistant director since 2007 and curasucceeds Dr. Paul D. Schweizer, who Curators and Historic New England. added contemporary craft collections tor of Decorative Arts since 1989. She D’Ambrosio’s periodical publica- to the museum, including works by 50 in the Ann F. Carpenter counterpane’s Seven objects, surviving from March 1962 Toledo Glass Workshops led by Harvey has become director emeritus. tions include articles for The Magazine contemporary studio furnituremak- centralder and Sallie B. Fulcher 1818.” The “F” inscription stands for Fulcher, Littleton, glass. Bowl and vessel at rear by workshop attendee Tom McGlaughlin; five pieces in foreground by Edith Franklin; all now in Toledo Museum of Art perma- Antiques, 19th Century (the magazine of ers and hundreds of ceramic, glass and her mother’s maiden name. Accord- nent collection. Courtesy Toledo Museum of Art; Richard Goodbody, photographer. the Victorian Society in America), book mixed media artists. He is known for his ing to Angela Goebel-Bain, curator Master- development of the conservation/ana- of Decorative Arts, these two counter- the Revolutionary era. The motif also and McGlauchlin. pieces of American Furniture (MWPAI), lytical wing at the Winterthur Museum. panes share a connection, because they references the biblical story of Ruth Wisconsin native McGlauchlin reviews, and the 1999 book Victorian Society Fairbanks earned a BFA from the were created before patterns for any and Boaz. also began his art career by working in in America Ruth Emory Book Award University of Utah; master’s in Fine sort of needlework were published, Toledo Museum of Art (OH) ceramics. He taught Littleton’s classes forwhich its contributionwon the 1999 to furniture scholar- Arts from the University of Pennsylva- so they were made either by the same has acquired seven greenish-blue glass at the University of Wisconsin while ship. She contributed to and edited the person or by women from connected • The his friend and mentor took a sabbatical book Jewels of Time: Watches from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; households. time glassblowers who happened to to study the properties of glass from Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute andnia through a joint program with the second master’s degree in Ameri- vessels that are the workToledo of two Work- first- can Culture from the University of shop. That workshop, with one in June when he took the two glass workshops national and international tour of the Delaware in the Winterthur Museum attend the March 1962 of the same year, is widely credited 1960–61. His artistic life changed in 2001 and oversaw the corresponding Fellowship Program. with launching the American Studio He went on to teach the second-ever European watch collection. Fairbanks is on the board of Glass Movement. glassblowingtaught by Littleton in Toledo in 1962. class to be part of the cur- museum’s 16th- through 20th-century Amy Miller Dehan has been directors of the Fairbanks Family in Ceramicists Tom McGlauchlin riculum at an American university, at America, Inc. and of the Decorative and Edith Franklin both attended the - D’Ambrosio received her bach- • Arts Trust, of which he was president inaugural workshop, which was led by elor’s degree from the College of the Harvey Littleton. Wisconsin).the University of Iowa in 1964 (Little Holy Cross, Worcester, MA; holds a president of research for Artfact.com, The two vessels donated by Pat ton taught the first at the University of McGlauchlin relocated to Toledo in master’s degree from the Cooperstown seniorfor more than 20 years. vice president of HeAntiques- was a vice McGlauchlin, McGlauchlin’s widow, Graduate Program; and has furthered America.com, editor at large for the - her studies through the Attingham Catalogue of Antiques and Fine Art, and Franklin are among the few surviving 1971 and dedicated the next 13 years gram between the Toledo Museum of Program, Victorian Society Summer a research associate in the American worksand the fromfive donated the group’sby Toledoan experiments toArt teaching glass as part of a joint and the University of Toledo. Whenpro School and a Winterthur research and New England Studies Program at - fellowship. At MWPAI, she oversees The donors believe it was made by Boston University. He is also a member voted himself to making art full-time. one of Ann Carpenter’s grandmothers of the American Crafts Council. ain glass (the only other object from the single example of Littleton’s work at he left the program in 1984, he de arts collection. She has added works by from cotton grown and processed on the 19th-century American decorative Fairbanks’s honors include the thefirst workshop in a public collection is Corning Museum of Glass (NY). worked on a series of glass sculptures cabinetmakers such as Herter Broth- Charles F. Montgomery Award of the Most of the vessels from the workshops exploringFrom 1978 until his death in 2011, he abstract qualities of the ers, Daniel Pabst, Kimbel and Cabus, a part of Ann’s dowry. DAS; Victorian Society of America’s did not survive because of inadequate human face. His work is in permanent and Charles Rohlfs, and silver by Tif- the family farm and finished in 1815 as The white-on-white palette of the Award for Conservation; Urban annealing (cooling) equipment. collections in the Smithsonian Insti- fany & Co., Gorham Manufacturing counterpane, style of the woman’s Glass Award for Exceptional Museum - tution (Washington, DC), Portland Art and George Sheibler. dress and house architecture dem- Glass Exhibition; Ellen Banning Ayer versity of Michigan graduate and one of Museum (OR), Kunstmuseum (Düs- D’Ambrosio has reinstalled the promoted to curator of Decorative onstrate the height of fashion in the Award for Contributions to Arts and only In 1962, Franklin seven students towas register a recent Uni for the seldorf, Germany), Corning Museum museum’s historical decorative arts Arts and Design at the Cincinnati Art Federal period when it was made. Each Culture; Lifetime Achievement Medal glass workshop. She had no prior glass of Glass Museum and National Mu- collection in renovated galleries and Museum hints at the neo-classical or Greek from the Society of Arts and Crafts experience. Although she went back to seum of Modern Art (Tokyo, Japan). overseen renovations to the museum’s revival ideals sweeping the country as (OH). She joined the museum (Boston, MA); and Iris Foundation ceramics as her medium of choice for The vessels will be on display dur- Fountain and implementation of its Cincinnati the second American generation tried in 2001 and aided in the development Award of the Bard Graduate Center the rest of her career, the work she pro- ing Color Ignited: Glass 1962–2012 Elms. She has organized dozens of to hold on to the democratic ideals of 1850 Italianate building, (New York, NY) for Outstanding Contri- duced was similar to that of Littleton (see Exhibitions). exhibitions and administered large Jonathan Leo Fairbanks has Wing, which opened in 2003. • 8/Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./9 sium of the Decorative Arts. the Decorative Arts Trust announced Deavours was an associate at the the Japanese shino style of porcelain thebutions endowmentto the Decorative Arts. In 2003, of the Jonathan L. Israel Sack in New York and has potteryin 1974. When experimenting with at Baltimore Clay Works in Exhibitions Fairbanks Lectureship in honor of his achievements; that same year the offirm of American furniture to surface in without the usual milky-white glaze challenged societal and esthetic codes be released from a spigot at the front. Furniture Society bestowed its Award recentbrokered some of the major examples decades. She wrote the preface andthe 1980s, he accidentally created a pot soon created a new shino tech- California in unexpected, often humorous, ways. A maker’s mark indicates that it was of Distinction on him. for and was instrumental in updating nique that involved starving the kiln of The Fashion World of Jean Paul Susan Warner has been appoint- Albert Sack’s book Good, Better, Best. oxygen to create the smoke that results Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to The Life of Art: Context, Collecting the front is engraved with the coat-of- ed as executive director/curator of the in the effect of his glaze. He added the Catwalk and Display armsmade in Paris around 1660; however, of an English nobleman and his Museum • of Glass (Tacoma, WA) effec- force in the Georgia area to call atten- bright shades of peach and orange with Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Getty Center wife, indicating that it was in England tionShe is considered the first commercial to patination and original surface splashes of black and gray for contrast. de Young Museum Los Angeles, CA Davis devoted himself to ceramics, San Francisco, CA www.getty.edu The porcelain lidded bowl was whentive March 20, 2012. She has served former director Timothy Close furniture was routinely stripped and re- becoming known for his porcelain and www.famsf.org Ongoing madeby the mid-1700s. in China or Japan in the late- resigned.as interim director since January 3, Her role as the museum’s on objects, before Georgia painted the glaze he developed. He taught pot- Through August 19, 2012 curator remains unchanged. its original intended appearance. She tery around the country; museums and This exhibition is devoted to the from the museum’s decorative arts col- after, where the its gilt-bronze handles finished also is creditedto a state that did not resemble with creating a market private collectors have accumulated his French designer and his personal lection—a This exhibition takes four objects silver fountain, a gilt-bronze 1600s and shipped and other ornamentationto England soon were added that acted in the interests of cultural teapots, cups, bowls and plates. He won themes of “equality, diversity and per- wall light, a gilt-wood side chair and a - she was Warner joined the museum as the appointed director of Public conservation. prizes and commissions for his work. versity.” The de Young is the exclusive lidded porcelain bowl—and encourag- ors of the time. Programs,director of Education in 2001. In 2006, overseeing the curatorial, Deavours is author of a number of He set up a studio in West Virginia with west coast venue for this international es visitors to examine them closely to to make it fit into the decorative interi Carved wood details of the side education and Hot Shop departments; articles in the Magazine Antiques about a kiln the size of a whole room. He was exhibition after its premier at the orga- understand how they were made and chair reveal its style, and where and - also known for his generosity in shar- nizing institution, the Montreal Muse- functioned, why they were collected, when it was made. It has easily remov- can furniture and has played a central ing the formula for his version of shino um of Fine Arts (Ontario, Canada) and and how they have been displayed. able cushions that demonstrate how assumedin 2009, she the wasrole appointed deputy of curator. Her educa- rolefloral inlay and 18th-century Ameri in the development of scholarship with other potters. its presentation at the Dallas Museum the upholstery could be changed with tiondirector. In October 2011, Warner also work has been honored by the City about Georgia vernacular furniture. John Perry (Jack) Strang, a long- of Art (TX). The exhibition features ap- changing fashions of the times. of Tacoma, with an Art at Work award She was a key force in the exhibition time DAS member who established For this exhibition, the wall light and catalog Neat Pieces: The Plain- • Huguenot proximately 140 ensembles spanning has been taken off the wall and mount- Style Furniture of Georgia - Heritage to research and inform the ready-to-wear collections, along with 35 years of the designer’s couture and ed to a sheet of Plexiglas so its back (2003), and with Antioch University’s hibition at the Atlanta History Center. the nonprofit organization - their accessories and numerous archi- can be seen. Revealing details of the Glass,Horace Mann WarnerAward was director (2007, alumni). of Educa- The University of Georgia , a 1983 Press reis-ex nical and artistic contributions of the val documents. Many of these pieces construction and repair are visible, as tion Before joining the Museum of at the Seattle Children’s Mu- sued the Neat Pieces descendantspublic about cultural, scientific, tech of the Huguenots, died on have never before been exhibited. well as the maker’s inscription and an seum. She also served as curator of The multimedia installation is inventory mark indicating that it once Education at the State Capital Mu- southern vernacular material catalog in 2006; culture. of Huguenot refugees who settled in organized in several thematic sections belonged to Queen Marie-Antoinette of seum (Olympia, WA) and as assistant it continues Deavoursto is be a major resource in a native of Leslie, GA, March 25, 2012. He was a descendant - France. curator, curator of Decorative Arts at and a graduate of the University of ber of numerous societies dedicated to tracing the influences, from the streets Each of the works of art has a the Dayton Art Institute. Her early Georgia. New Rochelle in 1687. He was a mem that have marked the couturier’s cre- of Paris to the world of science fiction, mate, or similar piece, on view in the career included extensive curatorial The museum’s Decorative Arts Kenneth Price, whose glazed ative development: - work in collection management and Advisory Committee also presented andhistory, the fine arts and film. painted clay works were said to leries. Labels in the spots where each exhibition development. Jane Campbell Symmes have • transformed traditional ceramics • The Odyssey of Jean Paul Gaultier pieceadjacent permanent collection is normally displayed illustrategal Born in Geita, Tanzania, Warner Spirit of the Symposium Award to motifs, such as the blue-and-white – explores several signature Gaultier that usual presentation. earned a bachelor of arts in History its first-ever Jane Campbell Symmes. The award and European sculpture, died in Febru- striped sailor shirt in all its themes and from Southampton University in Eng- recognizes an individual for service, and expand definitions of American variations, mermaids and virgins. land and a master of arts in Education dedication and encouragement of the and geometric forms, bright colors, Colorado from Antioch University in Seattle. symposium and the community energy andary at 77. His “provocative”work installations. featured organic He was fascination with lingerie and underpin- Read My Pins: The Madeleine • The Boudoir – explores Gaultier’s he or she generates. nings. Albright Collection Awards Symmes is a driving force of the Denver Art Museum Deanne Deavours, a dealer in Southern Garden History Society and influenced by the Bauhaus movement themes of bondage and body art. Denver, CO • Skin Deep – garments inspired by American furniture and decorative art, co-author of Madison, Georgia: An Archi- in Germany in the 1920s, where fusing Price is known for his series of - Fountain vessel, silver, ca. 1660, Paris, France. denverartmuseum.org • Henry D. tectural Guide. She has been on the com- drinkingcrafts and the fine arts vessels that hewas called a goal. “snail chotomy between the typical upscale Through June 17, 2012 • Punk Cancan – features the di Green Lifetime Achievement Award mittee since it began and has worked on cups,” since he decorated the small French couture client and the street bowl (China or Japan and England, late- This display of brooches from the The fountain (France, 1661–63), foris the first recipient of the the Decorative Arts, given by the the symposia since they began. cups with images of snails. He made punks of London. personal collection of former Secretary Georgia Museum of Art (Athens) to vessels in geometric shapes with glazes of State Madeleine Albright features 1600s), chair (France, about 1735–40) - Gaultier’s haute couture detailing with height so they can be seen easily at Obituaries • Urban Jungle – highlights of and light (France, 1756) are at table ments of an antiquarian, art historian or Malcolm Davis, who is credited colors, and created bulbous forms that unusual materials and techniques, close range and in the round. Labels she wore to communicate a message more than 200 pins, many of which materialhonor the significant lifetime achieve cultural practitioner who has with developing a new style of pot- hein flat, bright primary and secondary painted black, layered with acrylics - and the interactive programs provide or mood during her diplomatic tenure. • and then sanded to reveal under-paint ences, including Hussars, Mongolians, details of makers’ marks or inscrip- The exhibition examines the collec- showing a multicultural clash of influ of Georgia or related decorative arts. was a campus minister in Washington, in bright colors. Some pieces had as Hassidic Jews, Frida Kahlo and China. tions, construction or assembly, and tion for its historical ties, as well as made lasting contributions The award was presentedto the field after DC,tery, died in December 2011 at 74. when a neighbor invited him toHe a Sketches and stage costumes, visual evidence of alteration or repair. Deavours delivered the keynote speech class on ceramics sponsored by the DC of Price’s work featured motifs from among other items, further explore The fountain is an elaborate silver communicate. the power of jewelry and its ability to Henry D. Green Sympo- Department of Parks and Recreation Mexicanmany as 70 coats of thin paint. Some pottery. how Gaultier’s avant-garde fashions vessel made to hold water that could -

at the 2012 While serving first as U.S. Ambas 10/Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./11 sador to the United Nations and then Politics, Patriotism & Taxes fea- Revival interiors. Henry Francis du Maiorana, Sebastian Martorana, as Secretary of State, Albright became - Pont helped set the Americana style Christy Matson, Cat Mazza, Daniel known for wearing brooches that • trend by using these items in many of Michalik, Matt Moulthrop, Christy conveyed her views about situations. tures wine-related objects that comReligion provides vessels created his rooms. Oates, Olek, Andy Paiko, Mia Pearl- “While President George H.W. Bush had The WPEAC classes of formemorate political figures and events. use in church and domestic items man, L.J. Roberts, Laurel Roth, been known for saying ‘Read my lips,’ I 1970 and 1971 visiting that • reference prayers and clergy. Shawn Smith, Jen Stark, Matthew began urging colleagues and reporters Criss Cross Hall at Mu- Temperance Szösz, Uhuru (Jason Horvath and to ‘Read my pins,’” she said. seum of Early Southern illustrate attempts to reduce drunken- William Hilgendorf), Jamin Uticone, Decorative Arts (MESDA) ness. • presents objects that Anna Von Mertens, Stacey Lee Web- in 1970. Courtesy MESDA, Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective photo by Frances Griffin. ber and Bohyun Yoon. Denver Art Museum century drinking game wares, such Denver, CO Highlights include 18th- and 19th- Reinventing the Wheel: Japanese denverartmuseum.org make garden urns, and sports trophies Ceramics 1930–2000 Through July 8, 2012 inspiredas elaborate “puzzle jugs,” pierced by huge, bell-shaped kraterto Smithsonian Institution/Sackler Yves Saint Laurent: The Retro- vases that were originally employed Gallery spective is at the Denver Art Museum for mixing wine and water in ancient Washington, DC (CO) in its only U.S. stop. The exhibition fessors have transformed institutions, Through January 6, 2013 Greece and Rome; a popular board wwww.si.edu explores Saint Laurent’s 40-year career developed landmark exhibitions, and Uncorked! Wine, Objects & Tradi- - End date to be determined and his impact on the fashion world tion perance to children; and wineglasses This installation features modern American decorative arts and material created in response to society’s love of game from the 1800s that teaches tem and contemporary Japanese ceram- redefined the public’s understanding of celebrates objects and imagery Picnic basket, birchbark, cedar, alder, nails; and other multimedia elements, and culture. Tomah Joseph, Passamaquoddy, ME; 1900– ics by Living National Treasures and through photographs, drawings, films Graduate education at Winterthur nearly all from Winterthur’s museum ornamentfrom the 1600s through the 1800s that preferences evolved over 1930. Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont. contemporary younger artists. owes its existence to Henry Francis andwine. Featuring more than 300 objects, library collections, Uncorked! time,show accordinghow specific bowl, stem, foot and to the latest fashion. 200 haute couture outfits. Texture & Tradition: Japanese Woven du Pont and Charles Montgomery explores how wine was marketed, Examples from Winterthur’s collection District of Columbia Ancient Iranian Ceramics Bamboo at Winterthur and Dr. John Perkins, of early American silver and pewter Smithsonian Institution/Sackler 40 Under 40: Craft Futures Denver Art Museum president of the University of Dela- - Gallery Renwick Gallery Denver, CO ware. Their initial efforts in the early consumed and enjoyed in America and ure groups provide social commentary. Washington, DC Washington, DC denverartmuseum.org - Britain from the 1600s through the Items include wine bottles, decant- communion wares and humorous figThe exhibition is accompanied by a wwww.si.edu www.smithsonian.edu Through July 29, 2012 rial culture. Two decades later, Win- 1800s. booklet featuring highlights of the show Closing date not yet known Through February 3, 2013 terthur1950s focused on a program in mate curator Charles Hummel and Bacchus and Champagne Charlie song and an online exhibition, to be perma- This small installation showcases 40 under 40: Craft Futures fea- baskets, trays, containers, accessories, university professor Peter Sparks led sheets.ers and cellarettes Advertisements,to lead figures of trade cards, nently on the Winterthur website. the crafted works of ancient Iranian tures the work of 40 artists born since hand More than 70 pieces, including warmers, shades, and a chair and the development of a second program pattern books and other paraphernalia potters. Renwick Gallery screen, including pieces by basketmak- devoted to art conservation. provide examples of cultural values Made for the Trade: Native American was established as the Smithsonian ers who have been designated Living The exhibition is divided into three and attitudes of the times. Objects in the Winterthur Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Institution1972, the year the ’s American Art Museum National Treasures, are on display. sections. Throughout history, alcoholic Collection Asia branch for craft and decorative arts. Beginnings traces the origins of beverages frequently were accompa- Winterthur Museum and Gardens Smithsonian Institution/Sackler The exhibition investigates evolving the culture and conservation programs. nied by games or were the focus of the Winterthur, DE Gallery Delaware notions of craft within traditional me- • Careers celebrates the accom- entertainment themselves. Uncorked! http://winterthur.org Washington, DC A Lasting Legacy: 60 Years of dia such as ceramics and metalwork, as Winterthur Graduate Programs plishments of its hundreds of gradu- provides a glimpse into the lighter side Through October 7, 2012 wwww.si.edu •ates. of wine consumption, as well as a look This small exhibition features Na- Through 2012 Winterthur Museum, Garden & industrial design, installation art, fash- Education examines the extensive at some of the more serious aspects, tive American art—a long-overlooked This exhibition of approximately Library ionwell as in fields as varied as sculpture, design, sustainable manufacturing Winterthur education process. such as when politics and alcohol inter- part of the Winterthur collection. Made Winterthur, DE and mathematics. • The exhibition also includes a sected. for the Trade Asia explores the migration of pots and www.winterthur.org All of the artworks selected for - The exhibition has six categories: evolution over time, from tourist sou- illuminates200 ceramic vessels from Southeast the dimensions of inter- Through June 16, 2013 display in the exhibition were created This exhibition commemorates a ates, each a leader in preserving cultur- Classical References highlights venir to collected examines these objects’ artwork, and pres- national trade that brought southern alshort film about heritage or guidingfive program gradu institutions that connections between Greek and Roman ents them as a celebration of American Chinese ceramics into mainland South- university-museum partnership and the changed world that exists today, present the arts, history and culture. wine • vessels and deities and the design diversity and design. east Asia and to markets from Japan to honors the vision and commitment of whichsince September 11, 2001, and reflect poses new challenges and con- A series of related Friday Lunch- Native Americans sold bowls, Turkey. those who have shaped the graduate siderations for artists. time Lectures and Reaching and The Business of Wine consid- baskets and pottery to European colo- programs and the accomplishments The featured artists are: Viv- Teaching through Material Culture: A ersof later objects and ornamental motifs. how wine and related items were ian Beer, Melanie Bilenker, Jeffrey Florida Winterthur Graduate Program 60th bought • or sold and illustrates some century, tourists to destinations such nearly six decades, the University of Clancy, Dave Cole, Cristina Córdova, Selected Works of Louis Comfort Anniversary Symposium is associated “tricks of the trade” by which mer- asnists as early as the 1500s. Niagara Falls and the GrandBy the 19th Canyon Delawareof more than 830 graduates. and Winterthur Museum,For Gabriel Craig, Jennifer Crupi, Erik Tiffany from the Morse Collection with the exhibition (see Events). expected to see American Indians sell- Garden & Library have guided two Demaine, Joshua DeMonte, Brian Hosmer Morse Museum Consumption & Equipage, the ing handmade souvenir pots, pincush- graduate programs—the Winterthur Dettmer, Nick Dong, Joseph Foster Winter Park, FL Uncorked! Wine, Objects & Tradition largestchants increased profits. section of the exhibition, Program in American Material Cul- Ellis, Jeff Garner, Theaster Gates, www.morsemuseum.org Winterthur Museum, Garden & focuses • on vessels associated with spe- ture and the Winterthur-University Sabrina Gschwandtner, Jenny Hart, Ongoing Library artions and wall pockets. In the 1920s and the avant-garde began buy- of Delaware Program in Art Conser- Sergey Jivetin, Lauren Kalman, Lara Winterthur, DE drink was consumed, and the part wine and ’30s, collectors interested in folk vation. Winterthur-educated museum Knutson, Stephanie Liner, Marc work by Louis Comfort Tiffany, directors, curators, educators and pro- www.winterthur.org playedcific types of wine, settings where the in social life. modern paintings or place in Colonial More than 100 objects represent ing Native-made objects to pair with 12/Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2012 Newsletterincluding 15 leaded-glass windows, art of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./13 glass, metalwork, lamps and pottery. Island School of Design (RISD). Reubin Simantov, Llyn Strelau, and Stacia and Larry Woods. The Virtues of Simplicity—American Georgia Items on display include range Arts and Crafts from the Morse Southern Folk Art from the from stand-alone carved minerals and Collection Permanent Collection gems, bibelots, pens, bracelets, neck- Hosmer Morse Museum Georgia Museum of Art, laces, brooches, eyewear, and rings. Winter Park, FL University of Georgia www.morsemuseum.org Athens, GA Maryland Ongoing www.georgiamuseum.org Embroidered Treasures: Textiles This exhibition of American Arts Through July 22, 2012 from Central Asia and Crafts furnishings and decorative Works by southern self-taught Baltimore Museum of Art art illustrates the origins of the move- artists from the museum’s permanent Baltimore, MD ment in Great Britain and shows how collection include art by Mose Tolliver, www.artbma.org the Arts and Crafts movement mani- Thornton Dial Sr., R.A. Miller, Purvis Extended through July 8, 2012 fested itself in the USA. Young, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mary T. - Smith, Minnie Adkins and Cheever broidered textiles from Afghanistan, Contemporary Glass Sculpture: Meaders. This exhibition features 19 em Floral core, glass, 2008, Richard Ritter (left); Red Fibonacci vase, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary Southern Folk Art from the Billeie Ruth Sudduth (right). of Studio Glass Permanent Collection also includes prayerUzbekistan and Tajikistan on view mats, a wedding canopy, andfor Orlando Museum of Art works given by Georgia Museum of otherthe first time, including wall hangings, personal textiles from the late Orlando, FL Art board of advisors chair Carl Mullis Treasures award went to two glass www.fullercraft.org Historical Society explores more than http://www.omart.org and his wife, Marian, and by Ron and artists featured in the show, Richard Ongoing December 22, 2012–March 31, 2013 June Shelp of New York. Shelp was 19th and early 20th centuries. Ritter and Mark Peiser. This ongoing exhibition of the The Orlando Museum of Art born in Cartersville, GA, and received The exhibition also features the museum’s permanent collection is 70 objects, including needlework, a national celebration, presented by his undergraduate degree from the work of Cynthia Bringle, Thayer organized thematically and rotated silvermaps, firearms, swords, furniture, from the Massachusetts Histor- the Art Alliance for Contemporary joins Francis, Julian Guthrie, Bea Hens- annually, the permanent collection gal- icalclothing, scientific instruments and Society (MHS), from a variety of Glass ley, Harvey Littleton, Sid Luck, Sid lery will not only share the incredible perspectives—as items associated with demonstrations, lectures and exhibi- OffUniversity of Georgia in 1964. the Hook Oakley, Ben Owen III, Robert Rigaud, tions in (AACG), of more than 160 glass museums, galleries and art Gwinnett Environmental & Norman Schulman, Billie Ruth Sud- Traditions and Innovations res centers across the country throughout Heritage Center duth, Hiroshi Sueyoshi and Arval thatobjects in the collection. are sometimes hidden in storage. pastimportant historical figures or events, and conveyors of stories. A letter Woody. Examples of furniture, wood, ceramics fromobjects of beauty, survivals from the John Adams to his wife Abigail in Buford, GA Embroidered tent hanging, late 19th–early Contemporary Glass Sculpture: www.gwinnettehc.org 20th century. Gift of Jerry Maizlish, Sparks, Ritter lives and works in Bakers- and metals entered the collection in Celebrating2012. the 50th Anniversary of Through June 30, 2012 MD. connection with thematic exhibitions exhibition; he wrote that he must study Studio Glass includes works by artists - artists whose work was selected for featuring each medium. 1780 provides the framework “Politicks and War” so his sonsfor might the theville, NC. In 1993, he White House Collectionwas one of 70 of Craft, Traditions and Innovations study “Mathematicks and Philosophy,” such as Dale Chihuly, William Mor- tique, modern and contemporary hook Massachusetts a traveling exhibition organized by the organizes work from the permanent and their children could study “Paint- ris, Lino Tagliapietra, Harvey K. rugs Approximately 200 handmade an by dozens of Southeastern artists Living Treasures of North Carolina Smithsonian Institution. His work collection by three broad themes: ing, Poetry, Musick and Architecture.” Littleton, Dante Marioni, Therman are on view. Craft is included in many permanent col- The Vessel examines the func- The third section, Painting, Poetry, Statom, Christopher Ries, Laura Fuller Craft Museum lections, including the Asheville Art tional container as a traditional form Musick and Architecture, includes a de Santillana and many others. Also Kentucky Brockton, MA Museum (NC), High Museum of Art and • ongoing source of inspiration of silver punch strainer made by William included are younger artists who are The Cutting Edge II: A Gem and www.fullercraft.org (Atlanta, GA) and Mint Museum of Art the contemporary maker. Breed of Boston taking the medium in new directions. Jewelry Invitational Through August 5, 2012 (Charlotte, NC). Abstraction and Figuration looks Wampanoag bowl. The exhibition explores the concepts Headley-Whitney Museum The Living Treasures of North Peiser lives and works in Penland, at the means of expression between and a 17th-century and techniques of these artists and Lexington, KY Carolina Craft exhibition preserves NC, and is a founder of the Glass Art the • representational and the abstract how each uses the characteristics of www.headley-whitney.org a connection to the lineage of tradi- Missouri Society (GAS), of which he is now an in craft. glass. Through July 8, 2012 tional craftmakers from the region and Inventing the Modern World: honorary member. He has been in- Medium, Method and Meaning The American Studio Glass move- Gemstone carving is a centuries- displays the duality of traditional and Decorative Arts at the World’s volved with the Studio Glass Movement examines the relationship between the ment began with two glass workshops old art showcased in this exhibit contemporary craft through a collec- Fairs, 1851–1939 held at the Toledo Museum of Art in •characteristics of the material, develop- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in many public and private collections ment of technical ability and meaning Harvey K. Littleton, ceramic vessels, furniture, baskets and Kansas City, MO worldwide.since 1967, and his He receivedwork the is included Lifetime imparted by the makers to their work. who, with scientist Dominick Labino, artistsfeaturing the are fromwork across of 23 contemporary the United candlesticks.tion of glass apples, fireplace andirons, www.....org 1962, taught by Achievement Award from the Art Alli- introduced a small furnace built for Statesjewelers and gem carvers. Represented and Canada: Darryl Alexan- The show travels to New England Through August 19, 2012 ance for Contemporary Glass The Object of History: glassworking that made it possible for der, Susan Allen, Jackie Anderson, and the Lifetime Achievement Award Colonial Treasures from the individual artists to work in indepen- Stephen Avery, K. Brunini, Michael selection of work from artists recog- showcased the “latest and greatest” in 2004 Massachusetts Historical Society dent studios. Littleton then established Christie, Angela Conty, Paula Crevo- nizedfor the first time, with a representative with the North Carolina Living The 1851–1939 world’s fairs Concord Museum glass programs at the University of shay, Lisa Elser, Alishan Halebian, Treasures award, such as boatwrights, goods. Inventing the Modern World: Traditionsfrom the GAS and in 2010. Innovations: Fuller Concord, MA Wisconsin, Marvin Lipofsky did the Martin Key, Derek Levin, Susan Mar- potters, luthiers, marqueters, black- household objects and consumer Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, Craft Museum Collects Through June 17, 2012 same at the California College of the golis, Nancy Arthur McGehee, Nicolai smiths, gunsmiths, weavers and glass 1851–1939 Fuller Craft Museum The Object of History: Colonial Arts, and Chihuly later led the move Medvedev, Gregory Morin, Todd artists. In line with the 50th anniver- Brockton, MA Treasures from the Massachusetts to establish a program at the Rhode Reed, Gil Roberts, Naomi Sarna, demonstrating presents more than 200 technological and of the objects displayed at these fairs, 14/Spring 2012 Newslettersary of studio glass, the 2011 Living of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./15 Pantocsek succeeded in recreating the Paris’s Art Nouveau structures in forms years. The exhibition features almost Corning, NY exchange, national pride, and artistry. iridescent surfaces of ancient Greek innovations in glass, such as the center- that resemble trees. Its organic shape www.cmog.org scientific innovation, cross-cultural Carnegie Museum of Art supple- and Roman glass. Two decades later, The 1925 exposition also displayed is enhanced by a green crystalline traditional and “outside” art. Through January 6, 2013 ments the traveling portion of this ex- Louis Comfort Tiffany applied the J. & L. Lobmeyr. In what was known as glaze. Standing four feet tall, the Vase 100 items representing the scope of The museum celebrates the 50th same technology to his popular Favrile thepiece and bowls Rare Earth Series,by the Austrian firm of Lobmeyr incor- des Binelles was a feat in porcelain Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett anniversary of the American Studio The exhibit’s four-city tour includes the line of glassware, which is also be on porated uranium into the glass, causing manufacture, impressing critics at the and Brooklyn’s Faience Glass movement with these comple- Newhibition with its Orleans Museumown objects from fairs. of Art (LA) and display. the colors to change under different Louisiana Purchase International Manufacturing Company mentary exhibitions and works by each Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC). One of the most popular works types of light. Exhibition Brooklyn Museum artist, spanning Harvey K. Littleton’s Inventing the Modern World A papier-mâché pianoforte and and sophisticated design. Brooklyn, NY Five Swans tapestry, designed by the Inventing in 1904 with its sheer scale the Modern World: www.brooklynmuseum.org - European and American collections. Germandisplayed at the 1900 fair painter and printmakerwas the 1897 Otto inventiveness of the manufacturers of Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, Through June 16, 2012 career from his first ments with form andworks color in glass into the showcases objects assembled from The decorative arts made for Eckmann - decorativestool (1867) epitomize the remarkable arts. Although papier-mâ- 1851–1939 travels to the Carnegie The exhibition features vessels from the 1940s through his experiDominick world’s fairs often display an unusual ché had been used in Europe for more Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA), Octo- bought and borrowed by the museum Labino’s archives. tension: the use of traditional styles as . The tapestry was influ Jen- and made by artisans and companies 1980s and materials from a vehicle for progress, employing previ- prints.enced by both 19th-century Japanese nens & Bettridge introduced an array then to the New Orleans Museum of such as Charles Volkmar, William Making Ideas: Experiments in Design ously unknown materials and methods and 15th-century German woodblock ofthan a century, the English firm complex techniques. Shown at the Artber 13, 2012–February 24, 2013, and (LA) and the Mint Museum (Char- Boch and Union Porcelain Works, at GlassLab to craft works that evoke the esthetics lotte, NC). with examples of works by Edward Corning Museum of Glass of prior art movements. Because early The 1925 Paris exposition featured of seemingly fragile but highly durable A full-color catalog, written by Lycett’s sons. Corning, NY world’s fairs were a gathering of na- Cartierjewelry and luxury goods, with and Boucheron. The patternworks glued1867 Paris fair, this instrument is made and compressed paper pulp, The catalog, of the same title, is www.cmog.org tions in a less-globalized time, works offrom French jewelry firms such as the diamonds, rubies, sapphires and applied sheet after sheet to a wooden by historian Barbara Veith and traces Through January 6, 2013 typically exhibited a nationalistic pride emeralds in a bracelet by Boucheron core. Embellished with an ebonized publishedinternational scholars of 19th- and by Skira Rizzoli, accompa- Lycett’s career from apprenticeships Making Ideas honors the spirit and spurred an exchange in industrial surface adorned with gilding, mother- nies20th-century decorative arts and co- the exhibition. as a teenager in his native Stafford- of freedom and experimentation with and artistic methods. designs and metalsmithing capabilities, of-pearl and panels of reverse-painted shire, England, through an American artistic process that characterized the illustratingdemonstrates the firm’s progressive historical and cross-cultur- glass with foiled aluminum decoration, New York commission to paint the china of U.S. early years of the American Studio showcased at the fairs include the the pianoforte integrates many decora- Highlights from the Historical Society President Andrew Johnson. Glass movement, with a focus on new simple Examples of new techniques first forms of Hungarian chemist century. An Art Deco brooch from Tif- tive arts techniques. of American Decoration glass design and the GlassLab program Leó Valentin Pantocsek’s vase and fanyal styles popular during the early 20th & Co. The Sèvres Porcelain Manufac- American Folk Art Museum Playing House of the Corning Museum of Glass. a combination of emeralds and newly tory Vase des Binelles, designed by New York, NY Brooklyn Museum metallic oxides to the hot glass surface, fashionable’s 1939 installation features champagne diamonds. Hector Guimard, closely relates to www.folkartmuseum.org Brooklyn, NY Byzantium and Islam: Age of ewer from around 1860. By applying Ongoing www.brooklynmuseum.org Transition The American Folk Art Museum Through August 26, 2012 Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to a collection assembled Playing House New York, NY over many decades by the Historical series of installations highlighting the www.metmuseum.org Society of Early American Decora- museum’s period rooms. is the first in a Artists Betty Through July 8, 2012 tion, which was founded in memory of Woodman, Anne Chu and Ann Agee At the start of the seventh century, Esther Stevens Brazer the eastern Mediterranean—from a direct descendant of one of Maine’s the museum’s historic rooms, which Syria through Egypt and across North pioneering families in the (1898–1945), tin industry. illustrateplaced site-specific artwork in eight of how Americans of various Africa—was central to the the Byzan- The society is dedicated to pre- times, economic levels and locations tine Empire, ruled from Constantinople serving the techniques of early Ameri- lived. (modern Istanbul). Yet, by the end can decoration in a variety of medi- of the same century, the region had ums through their own re-creation of textiles, feathers, paper and metal. become a vital part of the emerging of historical forms and through the Agee Chu created birds and flowers out transformed the social order and Islamic world, as it expanded westward collection of original works, includ- luxury of the Milligan rooms into an from Mecca and Medina. ing decorated tin, furniture and other artisan’s workshop, and Woodman This exhibition focuses on this created table settings and “carpets” pivotal era in the history of the east- ephemera related to the development incorporating painting and ceramics. ofobjects, as well as stencils, tools and these arts in America. Playing House occupies the works of art drawn primarily from the Cupola House Dining Room, Russell collectionsern Mediterranean through some 300 of the Metropolitan Muse- Jubilation/Rumination: Life, Real and Parlor, Cane Acres Plantation Dining um, Benaki Museum (Athens, Greece), Ewer, glass; c. 1860, Leó Valentin Pantocsek (de- Imagined Room, Worsham-Rockefeller Moorish collections under the Department of signer), J. György Zahn Glassworks (manufacturer); American Folk Art Museum Smoking Room, Schenck Houses, Weil- Antiquities of Jordan, and other institu- Iparmuvészeti Múzeum (Budapest, Hungary). New York, NY Worgelt Study, and Milligan Parlor and tions in North America, Europe and the Shown at London International Exhibition of 1862. www.folkartmuseum.org Library. Middle East, many never shown before in the United States. Pianoforte and stool, gilded and japanned papier-mâché, verre églomisé, Through September 2, 2012 mother-of-pearl, brass, aluminum, glass, and original silk, with modern This exhibition celebrates the Founders of American Studio Glass: The exhibition is organized around upholstery (stool); c. 1867, John Bettridge and Company; shown at the museum’s 50th anniversary and the Harvey K. Littleton three themes: the secular and religious Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867. Carnegie Museum of Art, Women’s fact that the museum may survive after Dominick Labino character of the Byzantine state’s Committee Acquisition Fund. Photo: Tom Little. Corning Museum of Glass

southern provinces in the first half of 16/Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. significant financial problems in recent Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./17 the seventh century; the continuity of the eastern Mediterranean, and the University; Gabriele Mietke and Cäcil- and mixed media artist Barry Ace, ists such as László Moholy-Nagy, commerce in the region as the political emerging traditions of Islamic coin- ia Fluck, Museum für Byzantinische who uses computer components in lieu György Kepes and El Lissitzky, whose base was transformed; and the emerg- age. Silks—among the most important Kunst (Berlin, Germany) and Mina to1973) from the late 1920s the present, are comparedto the early and con- of the more “traditional” glass trade work shaped De Patta’s esthetic sensi- ing arts of the new Muslim rulers of the trade goods of the era—are repre- Moraitou and Anna Ballian, Benaki trasted1950s, and Prada from the late 1980s to explore the impact of their bilities and vision. region. sented in great variety, from sophisti- Islamic Museum (Athens, Greece); esthetics and sensibilities on contem- groups; Jeremy Frey, whose sculptural The Museum of Art and Design The exhibition begins with a cated depictions of people to detailed Robert Schick, American Center for porary notions of fashionability. basketsbeads identified with many Native reference early Maine basketry and the Oakland Museum of Califor- - geometric patterns; silk patterns with Oriental Research (Amman, Jordan); techniques; and Jamie Zane Smith, nia saic that illustrates the urban character hunting scenes that were favored by and Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles Changing Hands: Art without who has developed a new language of development of De Patta’s career. ofmonumental 17-by-20-foot floor mo the region and contains motifs seen the elite of the Byzantine world in the County Museum of Art (CA). Reservation 3 ceramics through the study of prehis- each played a significant role in the throughout the galleries: cityscapes, seventh century; and wall hangings The catalog is published by the Museum of Arts and Design toric and proto-historic forms among About Margaret De Patta inscriptions, trees and vine scrolls. depicting people in the dress of the era Metropolitan Museum and distributed New York, NY the Wyandot tribe. Excavated by the Yale-British School with examples of colored and deco- by Yale University Press. www.mad.org Natural Selection includes works Patta (née Strong) was raised in San rated tunics from graves in Egypt. Through October 21, 2012 by Truman Lowe, who creates open- Diego, Born in Tacoma, CA, where she WA,studied in 1903, De paint- at Gerasa/Jerash in present-day Jordan, Textiles, ivories, metalwork and Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible The third exhibition in the Mu- work• sculptures from willow branches ing and sculpture for two years at the theArchaeological Expedition in 1928–29 mosaic has recently undergone - Conversations seum of Arts and Design’s series harvested by the artist; sculptor and local art academy, before moving to conservation and is on display for the tinuing popularity and slow transfor- Metropolitan Museum of Art exploring contemporary Native North glass artist Robert Tannahill, who San Francisco to attend the California objects in other media show the conmation of diverse decorative elements New York, NY American art, features approximately creates stylized “masks” that represent Secular works include woven, such as vine scrolls, rabbits and www.metmuseum.org the interplay of natural wood forms a scholarship to study at the Arts Stu- monumentalfirst time in decades. wall hangings, an illus- calligraphic inscriptions. Similar small Through August 19, 2012 southeastern United States and Canada and molten glass; and Frank Shebe- dentsSchool of Fine Arts. In 1926, she League (New York, NY), wherewon - clay lamps have Christian inscriptions who70 artists from the northeastern and represent a new generation of gaget she was exposed to the work of the in Greek, both Christian blessings in Native artists who use contemporary constructed from hundreds of strands European avant-garde. depictedtrated scientific manuscript and deco naturalistically in Byzantine Greek and Islamic ones in Arabic, and techniques, materials, aesthetics, and , whose major installation, Cell, is On her return to San Francisco two courtrated silver dishes with biblical figures dress. Made during the reign of only Islamic blessings. iconography in their art and design De-Coding History/Historical years later to marry Samuel De Patta, Byzantine emperor Heraclius/Her- The third section emphasizes practice. Provocationof fishing wire interspersed with hooks. presents works that are Works on display were created in often • politically nuanced and contrast celebrate the slaying of Goliath by the the past seven years by Native art- the realities of history with the mythol- weddingshe became interested in jewelry- band that suited her modern- biblicalakleios (r.king 610–641), the silver plates David, possibly a reference Byzantineobjects that can be identified with connections to early Islamic ists in regions east of the Mississippi, ogy of cultural assimilation that has istmaking when she could not find a taste, and taught herself the craft. artspecifically Islamic sites, focusing on and the introduction of more east- including the Great Lakes, Woodlands, marginalized much indigenous art. To expand her understanding of over the Sasanians, the Persian em- ern motifs. The rare surviving ivories Northeast, Southeast and up through Robert Houle’s work addresses the modernist theories, learn new tech- to Heraclius’s decisive victory in 629 from Qasr al-Humayma, with their for- the Canadian Subarctic. disruption and dislocation of individu- niques and explore novel materials, southern Mediterranean provinces. mally posed nobles and warriors, are a Changing Hands 3 features more als, families and entire cultures, as pire that briefly occupied Byzantium’s Leaves from rare purple vellum highlight. The so-called Tiraz of Caliph - well as the public apology made by the study at the School of Design with its gospels written in gold and silver Marwan II—the earliest dateable Canadian government for the abuse she traveled founding director,to Chicago in 1941 Moholy-Nagy.to She represent the authority of the Ortho- Islamic tiraz textile, whose fragments than 130 works, including jewelry, ap of indigenous peoples in government invented “opticuts,” in which the facets dox Church in Constantinople. A hoard are usually dispersed among museums Afterproximately 25 that its New York Citywere premiere, designed and the residential schools. Mixed media art- of rutilated quartz act as transparent in Europe and America—would have exhibitioncreated specifically travels tofor museums the exhibition. in the ist Shan Goshon’s woven basket is windows letting light penetrate the been an honorary gift to a favored United States and Canada, including composed of a photograph of Indian stone and reveal its internal structure. theof 15 elaborately decorated silver and Attarouthi Treasure after the town individual. If not for the inscription in the Memorial Art Gallery ( Rochester, schoolchildren and adults at a typical She included kinetic elements in her namedsilver gilt liturgical objects, known as in their inscriptions, is indica- Arabic script, it could be mistaken for a NY) and McMichael Collection (On- boarding school. tive of the wealth of Greek-speaking Byzantine or Persian work. tario, Canada). reversing positive and negative design Christians in Byzantine Syria. The exhibition concludes with The works in the exhibition come Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of elements.jewelry and emphasized structure by Egypt’s role in the earliest Chris- works related to the earliest Islamic from a broad cross-section of indig- Margaret De Patta She divorced De Patta and, a tian period is shown in carved seventh- religious presence in the region. Early enous cultures, including Native Ameri- Museum of Arts and Design few years later, married the indus- century ivories from the so-called cans from the U.S., and First Nations, New York, NY trial designer and educator Eugene Tiberias, a portion of the inscription Metis and Inuit people from Canada. www.mad.org Bielawski, whom she had met at the moments from the life of St. Mark, the fromQur’ans theare mosque joined ofby Ibn a prayer mat from Tulun in Cairo Featured artists are presented without Through September 23, 2012 School of Design. They sought to pro- “Grado chair,” depicting significant - and decorated tombstones. Throughout tribal designations; instead, the exhibi- This exhibition, which made its mote the Bauhaus design philosophy andria. the exhibition, ostraca—inscriptions on tion is organized around three themes. debut at the Oakland Museum of Cali- and its democratic social agenda in the Evangelist, as the first bishop of Alex Jewish works from across the potsherds—and texts written on papyri Evolution and Exploration exam- fornia in February, is a comprehensive Bay Area through various endeavors, empire’s southern provinces include reveal the interests and concerns of the ines how Native artists are reinterpret- overview of Margaret De Patta’s oeu- including a production line of afford- people of the region. ing • their cultural traditions through vre and offers new scholarship on how synagogue depicting a menorah, other The exhibition is accompanied by contemporary perspectives, and floor mosaics from a North African an illustrated catalog with contribu- includes the work of scholar and bead- Blueable modernist jewelry. Steel Gold Light this American Modernist influenced of a liturgical dish, possibly from a Sa- tions from specialists including Steven This exhibition is organized by the work artist Joe Baker, whose creative social activist. Space-Light-Structure Museum of Arts and Design ritual objects and a lion; a fragment studio jewelry as both maker and maritan synagogue; and a molded glass Fine, Yeshiva University; Elizabeth Costume Institute and explores the af- use of color and patterning in textiles - New York, NY vessel made in Jerusalem. Bolman, Temple University; and Domi- Elsa Schiaparelli and www.mad.org features 50 jewelry pieces with ceram The exhibition’s second section nique Bénazeth, the Louvre (Paris, Miuccia Prada, Italian designers from elements that once decorated early and newly released archival material. October 16, 2012–February 17, 2013 is based on the floral and geometric ics, flatware, photographs, photograms focuses on trade and is introduced by France); Thelma Thomas and Barry finities between - bandolier bags among the Delaware The exhibition also presents Con- Blue Steel Gold Light presents Byzantine coins, the gold standard of Flood, Institute of Fine Arts, New York and Southeastern people; performance structivist pieces by European modern- examples of Daniel Brush’s earliest different eras. Approximately 80 sig 18/Spring 2012 Newsletternature objects of the Decorativeby Schiaparelli (1890– Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./19 India; and is part of the museum’s celebration This installation features approximate- Ohio selection of his steel and gold tablet New York ly 40 tiles from the Mint Museum’s The Collection: 6,000 Years andgold-granulated jewels and objects, a wall sculptures, along with his from the Ottoman Empire and embroi- institution—the oldest one in North Stateyears. CollegeHe earned his of CeramicsBFA in 1952 and at Alfred permanent collection, including the Cincinnati Art Museum magnetic adornments made from plas- deries • Egyptian tent panels, silk velvets from Uzbekistan; Carolina.of its 75th anniversary as a public art This exhibition runs concur- University.his MFA in 1956 from the - Cincinnati, OH tic, aluminum, steel and precious gems. bindalli wedding dresses rently at the Mint Museum Randolph Cohen worked as a designer round, Arkansas Traveller, modeled www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/ and the North Carolina Pottery Cen- for Hyalyn Porcelain Company in permanently installed fireplace surHenry Chap- Through December 1, 2013 began his career with painting and in Turkey; • beaded and ter (Seagrove, NC) for three months. Hickory. He eventually settled in Char- man Mercer of Moravian Pottery & This preview of a wide-ranging teaching. Born in Cleveland in 1947, Brush He then taught himself the and clothes from the late 19th century - A year after the Mint Museum Tileand designed ca. 1916 Works (Doylestown,by PA). selection of artworks from the collec- ancient Etruscan technique of gold lets, necklaces and earrings from opened, the museum received four the staff of the Mint Museum and was tions includes rarely seen pieces from granulation. He has created gold- Mughal • enameled gold and ruby brace India. pieces of pottery by Benjamin Wade instrumentallotte in the late 1950s, where he joined in spearheading the re- Fairytales, Fantasy & Fear the Cincinnati Art Museum’s storage domed containers encrusted with gold Exhibition guest curators Donald Owen, a principal potter at Jugtown. gional craft and pottery movement. In Mint Museum Uptown Nancy granules so tiny that they must be ap- Albrecht and Tom Mellins edited the - Charlotte, NC and David Wolf Collection (see Ac- plied with a one-haired brush. Doris ning of the museum’s North Carolina to establish his own studio. With life www.mintmuseum.org areas and 25 quisitions). Theworks galleries from the include most Duke’s Shangri La: A House in Paradise, pottery These objects collection, werewhich the begin has now partnerthe 1970s, he moved and fellow artistto Blowing Rock José Fumero, Through July 8, 2012 of the antiquities previously on display Doris Duke’s Shangri La: accompanying 232-page book he built a house and studio in Blowing Fairytales, fantasies and horror in the Schmidlapp wing, a large part Architecture, Landscape, and Skira/Rizzoli. Rock. stories are featured in an exhibition of the Native American collection, and Islamic Art to be published in September 2012 by grown to more than 2,100 examples exploring these primal themes that pieces from Fashion Art, Textiles and Museum of Arts and Design North Carolina that includes objects that range from tremor in his hand that ultimately pre- brings together the work of Mattia Bi- Decorative Arts. New York, NY A Thriving Tradition: 75 Years of the last quarter of the 18th century to vented Around 2005, Cohen developed a him from continuing to throw agi, Mark Newport, Kako Ueda, Tom There is a full-color catalog, Out- www.mad.org Collecting North Carolina Pottery Piedmont,the first decades of the 21st. All of the Catawba Valley, the moun- on the wheel. He returned to Charlotte Price and Kate Malone, and more. side the Ordinary: Glass, Ceramics and September 7, 2012–January 6, 2013 Mint Museum Randolph tains—aremajor pottery centers of the state—the represented, as are most of Known for his work in tar, Italian Wood from the Wolf Collection. Shangri La: Architecture, Land- Charlotte, NC the state’s family dynasties of potters, local arts community. In addition to be- artist Biagi reinterprets icons of lost scape and Islamic Art showcases a www.mintmuseum.org such as the Coles, Cravens and Rein- ingin 2010, where he remains active in the a working potter, Cohen served on innocence, such as Little Red Riding The Art of Sound: Four Centuries of Through January 2013 hardts. Hood and Cinderella’s carriage. New- Musical Instruments the Honolulu home of philanthropist The museum’s pottery collection Cincinnati Art Museum andselection of objects of Islamic art from art collector Doris Duke was developed in large part because of Thethe Mint’s staff from 1959–1973. American Art Tile, 1880–1940 hand-knit acrylic re-creations of he- Cincinnati, OH - key collectors of North Carolina pot- Mint Museum Randolph roes’port, an American fiber artist, creates costumes. Ueda, a Japanese paper June 16, 2012–September 2, 2012 rary artists of Islamic background (1912– who tery. Some of these collectors adopted Charlotte, NC artist, uses imagery such as insects and The Art of Sound: Four Centuries were93) and new recentlyworks in residence by six contempo there. an encyclopedic approach to their www.mintmuseum.org skeletons in cutouts to represent the of Musical Instruments features musi- Now open to the public under the collecting efforts, acquiring examples Through January 6, 2013 cal instruments from across the globe. auspices of the Doris Duke Foun- of pottery from all of the key pottery Price, a British furniture designer, uses This exhibition celebrates the dation for Islamic Art, Shangri La regions in the state. Other patrons polypropylenefine line between beauty and decay. tubing to create shapes craftsmanship of musical instruments preferred a more specialized strategy, that evoke forms from the natural through the museum’s collection of focusing their collecting efforts on a world. Malone, a British ceramic artist, andmaintains a collection of some 3,500 artist-in-residence programs. works with Neo-Baroque forms and objects and is also the site of scholar- The home incorporates architec- ware. crystalline glazes. musicalmore than 800 pieces from around cultures on four continents tural features such as carved marble specific potter or a particular type of The exhibition includes many This thematic exhibition also overthe world, representing more than 30 at least four centuries. The Art doorways, decorated screens known as includes selections from the Mint’s of Sound jali permanent collection and loans from instruments from the permanent col- ceramic tiles. The interiors feature ar- Sophisticatedobjects borrowed from local collectors. Surfaces: The Pottery private collections. lection, some includes 100 of which haveto 150 musical not been tifacts, gilt and coffered ceilings, and floral such as silk textiles, chandeliers of Herb Cohen displayed in more than two decades. and ceramics, many collected during Mint Museum Randolph “Our Spirited Ancestors”: The Items are grouped by geographic re- Duke’s international travels during her Charlotte, NC Decorative Art of Drink gion/culture: African, Native American, www.mintmuseum.org Museum of Early Southern Japanese, Chinese, Southeast Asian, - Through January 6, 2013 Tile with scrolling tendril, earthenware, ca. Decorative Arts Islamic, Indian and Western (European 1935 honeymoon around the world. This exhibition pays tribute to a 1890, Providential Tile Works (Trenton, NJ, Winston-Salem, NC and American). Art and objects on loan from Shan Charlotte-based artist and is presented 1886–1913). Dimensions: H 5.825 in. x W www.mesda.org The museum began collecting mu- andgri La range in date from the early first spanning Spain, North Africa, A Thriving Tradi- 5.825 in. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. Keith Gray. Through September 2012 Centralmillennium BCE and Southto Asia, the 21st century and the Middle tion: 75 Years of Collecting North The turn of the last century was The exhibition draws from the antique instruments in the collection East, and include: Carolinain conjunction with Pottery. the golden age of the American art tile. Museum of Early Southern Decora- weresical instruments in 1888. Many of the donated by William Howard Do- Herb Cohen’s work is considered Whether glazed or unglazed, molded tive Arts collection, as well as museum ane - in relief or smooth-surfaced, decora- Alice Goes to Washington, porcelain, 2010. a cornerstone in the tradition of North and private collections throughout the trialist and composer whose personal • ceramic vessels and tiles from tive tiles were a popular medium star tile with phoenix from the Ilkhanid Carol Gentithes (American, 20th century). Gift Carolina pottery. Born on the Lower and (1832–1915), a Cincinnati indusprofessional travels took him to period,11th–20th century Iran, including a molded bottle with a courtly of Daisy Wade Bridges. remote locations across the globe. scene from the Safavid period and A Thriving Tradition: 75 Years learned to throw on the potter’s wheel furnish their homes and businesses eastsoutheast. Objects include an early Tennessee inscribed “true blue”; Works, including ceramics, illus- among affluent consumers wishing to mosaic lunette from Isfahan commis- of Collecting North Carolina Pottery atEast Side of Manhattan, Cohen first age 6 at the Henry Street Settle- in the latest fashions. Tiles were used 19th-century redware liquor jug from - trate similar instruments in use, and ment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. place the instruments in historical and the museum’s permanent collection, He continued to take classes there and a wide variety of other ornamental broughta 1720s silver mug owned in Charles to Georgia by one of its earliest geographical context. as fireplace surrounds, wall hangings furnituresioned for from Shangri La in 1938; Spain, Syria, Iran and asincludes more than 70 ceramics from well as loans from local collectors throughout his childhood and teenage purposes, both interior and exterior. settlers.ton, SC; and a 1720s stoneware mug Highlights include a suite of Japa- • inlaid wood and mother of pearl 20/Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./21 nese instruments with lacquer deco- Dominick Labino, Dale Chihuly, Dan Bruce Galleries was provided by the nia Council on the Arts, Society of as a decorative item. This exhibition is organized by Dailey, Laura de Santillana, Marvin Women’s Committee of Carnegie North American Goldsmiths, among Gesture includes works such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and animals; a Burmese saung (harp) Lipofsky, Heinz Mack, Klaus Moje, Museum of Art through Eleanor other foundations, corporations and the framework of Jessica Jane Julius’s (New York, NY), where it was on view whoseration depicting flowers, butterflies boat-shaped, wooden body is Yoichi Ohira, Ginny Ruffner and Ju- Reamer Smith, the Commonwealth individuals. • decorated with scenes from the life of dith Schaechter. of Pennsylvania, Governor Edward in Houston by Michael Brown, curator Buddha in black and gold lacquerwork; G. Rendell and the Richard C. von All Consuming Static (c. 2008), with hundreds of The exhibition is made possible through of the BayouMay 6, 2012, and is overseen Bend Collection. A cata- Pennsylvania Hess Foundation. Additional support Society for Contemporary Craft byblack-glass flameworked threads. the Leonard and Norma Klorfine log accompanies the exhibition. glossy black slate with sculptural, Past Meets Present: Decorative Arts came from the Henry Luce Founda- Pittsburgh, PA Foundation Fund for Modern and carveda Native American flute of smooth, depictions of a beaver and a and Design at Carnegie Museum tion, Jane A. and Alan G. Lehman, www.contemporarycraft.org Contemporary Craft, with additional Unrivaled Splendor: The Kimiko and horned toad, and a mask with head of Art Margaret Ritchie Scaife, the Fellows Through June 30, 2012 support from the Windgate Chari- John Powers Collection of Carnegie Museum of Art of Carnegie Museum of Art, Henry L. Susan Myers’ metalwork ex- table Foundation and the Center for Japanese Art the Brothers Amati - Pittsburgh, PA Hillman Fund, Edward S. and Jo-Ann plores the paradox between materials, American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, Houston dress and gills; a 1619 viola crafted ry guitar by the French luthier Georgeby http://web.cmoa.org M. Churchill, Wallace and Patricia process and context in modern life. All Museum of Art. www.mfah.org Chanot, believed to have; and a 19th-centu belonged to Ongoing Smith, the Beal Publication Fund, Consuming includes hand-fabricated Houston, TX Napoleon’s Empress Eugenie, with a The newly renovated Ailsa Mel- National Endowment for the Arts, The Art of German Stoneware June 17–September 23, 2012 lon Bruce Galleries provide a broad Henry L. Hillman, Jr. Foundation, and - Philadelphia Museum of Art Collectors Kimiko and John Pow- pearl scenes of Paris. perspective on American and Euro- Maxine and William Block Fund of tainers,objects from Myers’ Disposable Series, often incorporating reclaimed Philadelphia, PA ers began buying Japanese artwork in fingerboard inlaid with mother-of-The Art of Sound: Four Centuries pean decorative arts from the Rococo the Pittsburgh Foundation. sheetin which she reconfigures takeout con metal cut from manufactured, www.philamuseum.org of Musical Instruments is supported silver-plated serving trays that are Through August 5, 2012 building one of the largest collec- by the Stockman Family Foundation century to contemporary design and Transformation 8: Contemporary engraved and stamped with decorative This exhibition includes 40 pieces tionsthe 1960s and amassed 300 objects, of Japanese art outside of Japan. Trust and National Endowment for and Neoclassical periods of the 18th Works in Small Metals motifs. from the collection of Charles W. Unrivaled Splendor: The Kimiko and Humanities. This special inaugural exhibition Society for Contemporary Craft Nichols, a Philadelphia ophthalmolo- John Powers Collection of Japanese explorescraft of the 20th and 21st centuries. the past and present of deco- Pittsburgh, PA Craft Spoken Here gist, who is donating most of it to the Art Color Ignited: Glass 1962–2012 rative arts and design at the museum www.contemporarycraft.org Philadelphia Museum of Art museum. He has been collecting holdings, including some of the earliest Toledo Museum of Art through three key installations. Through June 30, 2012 Philadelphia, PA known, showcases 85 selections from their examples of Buddhist art in Toledo, OH The eighth exhibition in the Ra- www.philamuseum.org - Japan; narrative scroll paintings; ex- www. toledomuseum.org phael Founder’s Prize series features Through August 12, 2012 stoneware for about 20 years. Items amples of calligraphy; screens embel- June 13–September 9, 2012 and • German A display of early acquisitions porcelain owned by collec- - - whenon display include figurines of musi German stoneware artisans were lished with gold and silver; sketches; This exhibition explores the role of torincludes 18th-century French furniture and patron Ailsa Mellon Bruce. ing artists, and highlights examples of tries represented in this exhibition tryingcians and animals from around 1740, to compete with ceramics from - contemporarythe work of 33 recognized and emerg works in small metals work The 39 craft artists from 11 coun in a variety of media, including other regions. and silver—from courtly to popular ed marble batch to Dominick Labino’s ceramic, rubber, bronze, glass, wood, The catalog, by curator Jack workssculptures; and objects of lacquer, pearl of art, revealing overlapping technicalcolor in glass, from the first green-tint experimentation with color commitment • A group of early Pennsylvania to the arts of its region. international. Hinton and published by Yale Uni- themes. to the contemporary use (or absence) decorative arts reflects the museum’s and jewelry. Eight of the finalists The exhibition is made possibleare by exhibition is international in scope versity Press, explains how medieval Unrivaled Splendor is organized of color to make an artistic statement. a view of the evolution of style and the Raphael family, Elizabeth R. Ra- andsilver, silk and natural fibers. The also nods to Philadelphia’s craft ceramists dug clay of out mine shifts by eight thematic sections. The exhibition highlights artists who • A installation of chairs offers phael Fund of the Pittsburgh Foun- tradition, featuring four artists with lo- and set off clouds of acid fumes while Early and Medieval Buddhist Art have worked in glass since this time dation, Fine Foundation, Allegheny cal ties: Rebecca Medel, Doug Bucci, formulating salty glazes. period, including Harvey Littleton, anddesign into the 21st century. reinstallation of the Ailsa Mellon Regional Asset District, Pennsylva- Jessica Julius and Rudolf Staffel. The •ideas and their impact on art. Major support for the renovation exhibition connects with the crafting Texas demonstrates the influence of Buddhist Guilded Verses: A Poetic Renais- Coastal Stack V, 2008 community through the CraftLAB, a Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker sance in Kyoto features painted hand- (left), madrone burl, space within the exhibition dedicated in New York scrolls, • folding screens and other carved, sandblasted, to demonstrating and exploring craft Museum of Fine Arts, Houston bleached and pigment- techniques. Laying the Foundations: Tosa ed, 46x34x30 inches www.mfah.org The exhibition is divided into three Houston, TX andworks Kano created in the 1600s. , examples of hand-scrolls, (116.8x86.4x76.2 cm). • In Michael J. Peterson, sections. June 24–September 9, 2012 hanging scrolls and folding screens ex- American, born 1952. Essential Element looks at Duncan plore these two schools and the work Purchased with Leonard continuing importance of line—the Phyfe created for patrons. and Norma Klorfine graphic • gesture. Rebecca Medel’s The The first retrospective on Foundation Endowed (1770–1854) in 90 years, this Fund for Modern and form a dense cube of knotted cotton furnitureexhibition brings together the finest maker while reexamin- other • Japanese artists styles, such as Sogawho Shōhaku merged Contemporary Craft and andOne (1985) uses a network of lines linen threads, dark on its fringesto ingfurniture Phyfe’sby career the 19th-century master and his impact on Tosa and Kano school influences with Itō Jakuchū Windgate Charitable and progressively lighter toward the and Maruyama Ōkyō Foundation. Passage to American furniture during his lifetime center. and beyond. Known during his time for and(1730–81), his student Nagasawa(1716–1800) Rosetsu the LaBelle, 1995 (left), (1733–95), cut, polished and lami- Shape Shifting, includes works in his elegant designs and craftsmanship, Revitalizing nated glass, 13 x 13 x 16 Phyfe remains America’s most famous the Atelier System. inches (33x33x40.6 cm). materials • that have been fashioned cabinetmaker. The exhibition presents (1754–99), The Scholarlyare featured in Ideal explores the Michael Pavlik, Czech intoclay, glass, wood, metal, paper and fiber sculptural forms. Motoko Maio’s the life and work of the cabinetmaker Scholar-Amateur movement that came (active in Guatemala), through furniture, drawings, docu- • born 1941. Bequest of ments, personal possessions and furni- such as Ike no Taiga Hester Beckman. divideKotodama (2008) is a folding screen in a room, provide privacy or serve ture. Yosaabout in the 18th century, when artists Buson silk and linen that can be adjusted to (1723–76) and (1716–83) painted flora, 22/Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./23 fauna and calligraphies in a looser and Aalto, Bruno Mathsson, Kaj Franck, Contributions more expressive style that drew upon Timo Sarpaneva, Tapio Wirkkala, including lead gaffers Martin Blank past Chinese literati traditions. Poul Henningsen, Finn Juhl and andated in 1988 Richard byRoyal a small team of artists, , assembled by Later Buddhist Art revisits the Verner Panton. Chihuly to experiment on the design. Categories of contributions Special contributors His subsequent Persian series was the • - Washington result of this session. Student $20 Contribution checks should be made pay- President’s Circle Regular $35 Robert L. McNeil, Jr.* larly,influence of Buddhism in Japan since the ink paintings and calligraphic Beauty Beyond Nature: able to “Decorative Arts Society, Inc.” and scrollsits introduction around 552; particu produced by Zen monks. Classic Heat Institutions & Libraries $40 mailed to: Stewart G. Rosenblum, Esq. The Art of Paul Stankard Sustaining $60 The Popular Arts includes a Museum of Glass and LeMay— Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Museum of Glass Patron $100–$499 c/o Stewart G. Rosenblum, Treasurer pilgrimage mandala and humorous America’s Car Museum Benefactors Tacoma, WA Benefactor $500–$14,999 333 East 69th Street, #8E Anonymous anecdotes • or lighthearted portrayals Tacoma, WA www.museumofglass.org President’s Circle $15,000 New York, NY 10021 Margaret B. Caldwell of ukiyo Through June 17, 2012 www.museumofglass.org and above Elizabeth De Rosa Western World through a Japanese Lens Beauty Beyond Nature presents Through January 2013 Oscar P. Fitzgerald, IV displays (“the floating world”). The representations of Western- Paul Stankard’s Classic Heat is a collection of Lynn Springer Roberts ers and their ships, as well as Japanese - nine large-scale glass hood ornaments casedmore than 70 of in clear crystal from the Robert created by the Museum of Glass Hot Patrons representation and perspective. M.flameworked still-life sculptures en Minkoff Collection, which spans Shop Team and artist John Miller in Anonymous works influenced by Western forms of more than 40 years of Stankard’s ca- collaboration with LeMay–America’s David L. Barquist About the Powers Collection reer. Car Museum (ACM), inspired by clas- Elizabeth Bidwell Bates sic designs from American automakers. W. Scott Braznell & Patricia E. Kane Jay Cantor publishing executive until he retired in Origins: Early Works by Dale Chihuly his 40s John Powers (1916–99) and devoted himself towas col- a Museum of Glass from various makes and models. The The finished pieces include elements Michael Conforti lecting art with his wife, Kimiko. They Tacoma, WA custom-made, hand-blown works are VeronicaSarah Coffin Conkling discovered Japanese art by chance on a Through October 21, 2012 Karina H. Corrigan Origins: Early Works by Dale David W. Dangremond John Powers visited the Tokyo Nation- Chihuly 25 inches tall and were influenced by Jean Efron stopover flight en route al Museum. to India, when pieces from local collections and the vehicles on display, such as the 1952 Jean Taylor Federico An illustrated, hardcover catalog museum’s presents 30 transitional permanent collection, with Buick 8 Special, 1957 Chevy 210 and Finished pieces reference the Firestone and Parson, Inc. Beatrice B. Garvan of the same title accompanies the historic exhibition posters from the original1929 Ford emblems Model A. and include elements exhibition, published by the MFAH and from various makes and models. Half Anne K. Groves Mary Hale Cockran Library. The Elizabeth Stillinger Guthman distributed by Yale University Press. of the exhibit will be on display at the David A. Hanks an artist, visionary and pioneer of the Museum of Glass and the other half will Jeannette M. Harper to be published in more than a decade; Americanworks chronicle Chihuly’s influence as Studio Glass movement. be on display at ACM. Judith F. Hernstadt previousIt is the first book about this collection publications are out of print. Anne E. Hough The book includes a collector’s state- Katherine Howe ment by Kimiko Powers; essays by Phillip M. Johnston Christine Starkman and Miyeko Mu- Linda H. Kaufman rase, curator and scholar of Japanese Patricia C. Kubicek Thomas S. Michie Mrs. Milo Naeve the exhibition by John M. Rosenfield, art; and entries on the 85 artworks in Dianne H. Pilgrim Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor Charles J. Robertson III Emeritus of East Asian Art at Harvard William H. Rutledge University. Monika V. Schiavo Hood ornament, blown and hot-sculpted Susan Solny Scandinavian Design when Chihuly was a student at the Joseph P. Spang Rhode The earliest Island Schoolworks of date Designto 1968, . Fund- glass, 2012, John Miller (American, born Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1966). Collection of Museum of Glass. Photo Kevin Stayton ed by a Fulbright Grant, he traveled to Elizabeth E. Thaler Houston, TX by Duncan Price. www.mfah.org Venice to work in the Venini Fabrica Charles L. Venable Daniel Visnich August 26, 2012–January 27, 2013 for a year to learn the secrets of Vene- International John C. Waddell Taken from the museum collection, tian glassblowing. The techniques he learned from the Venini glassworkers The Art of Collecting Gerald W.R. & Barbara M. Ward this exhibition highlights furniture, Gail C. Winkler were pivotal to his development as an Royal Ontario Museum glass, ceramics, metalwork and lighting Toronto, Ontario, Canada artist. Works in the exhibition include * Deceased examples of Chihuly’s earliest Cylin- www.rom.on.ca The Museum of Fine Arts, Hous- Through October 2012 tonfrom the 1920s to the 1970s. ders, Sea Forms and Macchias. The central piece of the exhibi- The Royal Ontario Museum showcases some of its biggest names first acquired examples of modern - and acknowledges donors to its Euro- chitects,Finnish glass in 1954, and has built on designers and manufacturers titled Persian Sea Forms that was given Vase, glass, c. 1860, Leó Valentin Pantocsek, designer; J. György Zahn Glass- tion in an historic 33-piece installation pean Decorative Art Collection. suchthis history as Georgby acquiring objects Jensen, Orrefors,by Alvar ar - works (manufacturer); Iparmuvészeti Múzeum (Budapest, Hungary). Shown at the London International Exhibition of 1862. to the museum in 2011 and was cre 24/Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. 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Card table, attributed to Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854), New York, 1815–20. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, partial and promised gift of James and Laura Freeman. See DAS News.

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