Decorative Arts Society Volume 19, Volume Number 2 newsletter fall2011 DAS Newsletter

Volume 19 Editor Gerald W.R. Ward Number 2 Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator Fall 2011 of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture The DAS Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The DAS Newsletter is a publication of Boston, MA the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. The pur- pose of the DAS Newsletter is to serve as a The Decorative Arts Society, Inc., is a not- forum for communication about research, Coordinator exhibitions, publications, conferences and Ruth E. Thaler-Carter in 1990 for the encouragement of interest other activities pertinent to the serious Freelance Writer/Editor in,for-profit the appreciation New York of,corporation and the exchange founded of study of international and American deco- Rochester, NY information about the decorative arts. To rative arts. Listings are selected from press pursue its purposes, the Society sponsors releases and notices posted or received Advisory Board meetings, programs, seminars, and a news- from institutions, and from notices submit- Michael Conforti letter on the decorative arts. Its supporters ted by individuals. We reserve the right to Director include museum curators, academics, col- reject material and to edit materials for Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute lectors and dealers. length or clarity. Williamstown, MA The DAS Newsletter welcomes submis- Officers sions, preferably in digital format, submit- Wendy Kaplan President ted by e-mail in Plain Text or as Word Department Head and Curator, David L. Barquist attachments, or on a CD and accompanied Decorative Arts H. Richard Dietrich, Jr., Curator by a paper copy. Images should be pro- Los Angeles County Museum of Art of American Decorative Arts vided at high quality (400 dpi), preferably Los Angeles, CA as TIFFs or JPEGs, with detailed captions, Philadelphia Museum Art Philadelphia, PA either color or black-and-white. We do not Cheryl Robertson cover commercial galleries. Independent Scholar, Curator The newsletter of the DAS is published and Museum Consultant Treasurer two times a year at this time. Submission Cambridge, MA Stewart G. Rosenblum, Esq. deadlines for 2012: February 28 for the New York, NY spring issue; August 30 for the fall issue. Charles Venable Please send material to: Director & CEO Secretary Ruth E. Thaler-Carter, Speed Art Museum Veronica Conkling DAS Newsletter Coordinator Louisville, KY Independent Researcher 2500 East Avenue, #7K Washington, DC Rochester, NY 14610 Gillian Wilson Curator of Decorative Arts Members [email protected] J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, CA Communications 585-248-8484, phone Monika Schiavo 585-248-3638, fax Ghenete Zelleke Smithsonian-Mason History of Associate Curator, European Decorative Arts To better serve our contributors and Decorative Arts Washington, DC the decorative arts community, the DAS Art Institute of Chicago website may provide information about Chicago, IL Programs events that fall between issues. Nicholas Vincent Research Associate, American Decorative Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY

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Winterthur Museum purchase with support from Centenary Fund; acquired Newsletter design by Plum Crane. through bequest of Henry Francis du Pont. In Paint, Pattern, & People: All content ©2011 Decorative Arts Society. Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania at Winterthur—subject of November DAS tour. See DAS News and Exhibitions. DAS news DAS welcomes new board members s noted in the president’s letter in this issue (see page 2), the ADecorative Arts Society (DAS) is pleased to welcome three enthusias- tic, energetic new board members. Veronica Conkling, who has agreed to serve as DAS secretary, is an independent • researcher focusing on 19th-century decorative arts and material culture, and 20th-century American art and sculpture. She has a bachelor’s degree in architecture with

Cyprusa certificate Archeological in Historic Expedition Preservation con - New DAS board members Veronica Conkling, Monika Schiavo, Nicholas Vincent. and is a former field architect for the - projects for the art museums of the In 2008, Conkling graduated with Smithsonian Institution, including the ducted by Princeton University. inthesis American was “Courting Furniture, John 1844–1860.” Henry Bel Artist Research Fellowship Program. of Decorative Arts and Design offered ter: DecodingAfter completing His Decorative her degree, Carvings Conk- She was awarded with the 2009–10 bya master the Smithsonian of arts degree Institution in the History in partnership with Parson’s-The New at Smithsonian Gardens, where she School for Design. The topic of her assistingling worked in managing in the Office art-related of the Under Enid A. HauptContinued Research on next fellowship page Secretary for History, Art and Culture, DAS heads to Winterthur in November ontributors should have received their invitations for a daytrip to CWinterthur Museum, Garden & Library (Winterthur, DE) on Saturday, Tape loom, November 12, 2011, featuring special white pine, red tours related to the exhibition Paint, oak, maple, Pattern, & People: Furniture of South- walnut, paint. eastern Pennsylvania, 1725–1850. John Drissell, - Lower Milford terthur Visitors Center (5105 Kennett Township, Plans call for arriving at the Win- Bucks County, portation from the Wilmington train PA. 1795. In Pike/Route 52) at 10:30 a.m. Trans Paint, Pattern, Continued on next page & People: Furniture of Southeastern In this issue Pennsylvania, 1725–1850 at DAS news 1–4 Winterthur. See New board members, upcoming Exhibitions. tour, Boston tour highlights, thanks to departing board members Feature 5 Decorative arts in the Carolinas Events 6 Acquisitions 9 People 12 News 15 Exhibitions 17

Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./1 From the president By David Barquist to welcome Veronica Conkling as the he past few months have been decorative arts; it also required a lot incoming secretary and Monika Viola busy ones for the Decorative ofknowledge hard work and on interest the part in of the volunteers, field of Schiavo and Nicholas Vincent as TArts Society, Inc. (DAS). In July, incoming board members (see page 2). members. We have depended upon the Monika will work on the DAS website, stalwartparticularly presence the DAS of officersLindsy Parrottand board as and Nick will help with planning pro- we offered a weekend trip to Boston, DAS secretary, as well as Libby DeRosa splendidMA. Participants tours of enjoyedthe new private Arts of accessthe and Diane Wright as very active vice to Winterthur on Saturday, November Americasto historic Wing homes at onthe Beacon Museum Hill of and Fine presidents. Due to outside commit- 12grams., focused He has on already their extraordinary organized a trip Arts, led by Gerry Ward and his team, ments, both personal and professional, exhibition Paint Pattern and People: as well as galleries in the Arts of Eu- all three have stepped down recently Furniture of Southeastern Pennsyl- rope section led by Tom Michie. At the from their positions with the DAS. vania, 1725–1850 (see page 1), and a conclusion of the trip, we presented trip to upstate New York is in the works the Service to the Profession award want to thank them for all their efforts for the spring of 2012. to Thomas and Alice Kugelman, for Personally and on behalf of the DAS, I Your participation in these pro- them well as they pursue their re- grams and your contributions to the as scholars, collectors, and institutional searchon behalf and of projects, the organization. and look forwardWe wish - their exceptional devotion to the field to hearing more about those in the tinued strength and growth, and your Trips like this are one way the months to come. DASsuggestions are vital and to the ideas organization’s for ways we con can trustees. See page 3 for further details. Looking forward, we are delighted improve are always welcome. WinterthurDAS fulfills its mission tour, of advancing New board members, continued studied a collection of 19th-century supported the administrative and continued bouquet-holders. development efforts of the director and station is available and will depart Conkling has presented lectures assistant director. promptly at 10:15 a.m. on: “The Organic Furniture of John A “recovering antiques dealer” A house tour will begin at 11 a.m., Museum of the who operated her own retail company led by Winterthur Master Guides. Daughters of American Revolution in for several years before starting gradu- Choose between “Antiques and Archi- MarchHenry Belter,”2009; “From at the the Garden to the in Appraisal Studies from New York and “Distinctive Collections of South- Culture and Women in Victorian ate school, Schiavo has a Certificate tecture in Southeastern Pennsylvania” America,”Parlor and at into the the 2010 Automobile: MAPACA conferFlower- St. Johns College’s Alumni Association. UniversityNicholas and servedC. Vincent on the, who board will of enjoyeastern an Pennsylvania.” informal “Dutch treat” lunch the Arts and Crafts in Grant Wood’s Art be responsible for DAS programs, is a At 12:30 p.m., participants will - Colonies:ence; and Insights“The Unmistakable in the Craftsman Signs” ofat research • associate in American Decora- thur, purchasing their own lunches and the First Symposium for Emerging tive Arts at the Metropolitan Museum sittingin the Pavilion together Restaurant to enjoy one at another’sWinter Scholars at the Stickley Museum at of Art company and discuss the morning tour. Craftsman Farms in April 2011. At 2 p.m., exhibition curators Monika Violet Schiavo will over- from the (New Winterthur York, NY). Program He holds ina BA Wendy Cooper and Lisa Minardi will see communications for the DAS. She Earlyfrom Wesleyan American University Culture; isand a graduan MA- lead a tour of the Paint, Pattern & recently • completed her coursework ate of the Attingham Summer School People exhibition. for the Smithsonian-Mason History for the Study of the English Coun- of Decorative Arts master’s degree try House; and has served as a guest to explore the museum and gardens. lecturer and adjunct professor for the Transportation At 3:30 p.m., there back will to bethe free time the career of collector and decorator American Fine and Decorative Arts Wilmington train station will depart Katharineprogram. Her Prentis master’s Murphy thesis, andexamines the program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art impact of Murphy’s historic house (New York, NY). October installations on the 1950s Colonial Vincent has worked on the renova- promptly21, 2011. atIf you4:30 have p.m. not received the tion of the Met’s American Wing period invitation To participate, and sign-up RSVP form, by contact rooms and furniture galleries, and cur- Stewart Rosenblum at profsgped@ DepartmentRevival movement. internship at Blair House, rently is coordinating the installation - Schiavo has benefited from a State of the American paintings and sculp- load the form from the DAS website at - ture galleries, scheduled to reopen in aol.comwww.DecArtsSociety.org or 212-879-5536, .or down the U.S. president’s guest house, and January 2012. has worked in the History of Decora tive Art program office, where she 2/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. DAS visits Boston sites By Judith Gura, Professor and Coordinator of Design History and Theory programs, New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY AS members spent two delight- Michie showed us through the Eu- hosts, including Nonie Gadsden, Kelly ful and informative days in ropean galleries, which are still in the L’Ecuyer and Dennis Carr. The galler- D process of reinstallation and use the ies are distinctive for their innovative hosted by historians and curators on museum’s new multidisciplinary presentation: Not only are decorative private Bostonvisits to in a July,few whereof the city’s we were new - approach, which favors showing con- arts and paintings shown together in est —and oldest—historic sites. temporaneous objects together, rather integrated displays, but the exhibition DAS newsletter editor Gerald W. R. than segregated by category. rooms are designed around themes Ward, Katharine Lane Weems Senior that relate history and social context— Curator of American Decorative Arts in effect, telling stories to museumgo- & Sculpture, and DAS Smith Award ers, instead of merely offering didactic Committee chair Thomas S. Michie, Thomas labels. Michie offers We were impressed with the easy- Stearns Senior Curator of Decorative insights into to-understand, attractive displays, a Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp European Arts and Sculpture Art of Europe, at the decorative arts gallery of “how was it made” explaining Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, took displays. details of fabrication, and a platform of the lead in ensuring the success of the side-by-side Chippendale-style chairs day-long visit to the museum. Much of made in different cities, allowing easy our visit focused on the museum’s new comparison of their differing details. wing, designed by Foster + Partners We moved on to the period rooms, for the Art of the Americas collections. some of which had, due to space re- strictions, never been installed before. The tour ended with an installation of selections from the museum’s burgeon- ing contemporary collections. Next on the refurbishing list is the museum’s I.M. Pei reason to anticipate another visit to this exceptional-designed institution. wing—definitely a Saturday was a triple-header: visits to three very different and

equally fascinatingHarrison houses in Gray Boston’s Otis Opening with a tour-de-force dis- historichouse, a Beaconred-brick Hill Federal-style neighborhood. home Our Gerry Ward leads tour participants through play of seven massive white porcelain firstdating stop to 1796,was the designed by architect Chihuly exhibition. Meissen bird sculptures, the galleries Charles Bulfinch for a former mayor Ward began with a side trip include a table-setting–like display that through the spectacular (and crowd- pleasing) Dale Chihuly exhibition, - of Boston and now owned by Historic showcasing four decades of glass sculp- lishuses silver; porcelain 18th-century figures as French centerpiece objects lastNew surviving England andmansion designated in what a wasU.S. - fromdécor; the a trove Swan of collection; Hanoverian-era and the Eng still- National Historic Landmark; it is the- lations including a 42-foot-high “Lime Ham- hood. Greentures, alongIcicle withTower” site-specific that dominates instal the ilton House, once the largest house in onceLeah Boston’s Walczak most ofelite Historic neighbor New MFA’s airy new atrium (where it may Scotland.unfinished paneled salon from England showed us through the metic- remain … museum visitors are enthu- We were treated to a behind-the- ulously restored interiors and appeal- siastically contributing to a purchase scenes visit to the bare-bones frame- ingly colored interiors, which have a rainbow shapes of blown glass, and a interior in the process of reinstallation, furniture. roomfund), that a canoe-size replicates boat one filled in Chihuly’s with andwork a offascinating the Newland explanation Room, a ofperiod what significantAfter a number walk up of(and items down) of original the own studio, with a selection of Chi- the work involves. huly’s collection of Native American After a delightful lunch in the museum’s new restaurant, we toured hill itself and lunch at theGibson Beacon House Hill , blankets, and Chihuly’s own glass ves- Bistro, we viewed another National selsbaskets, inspired Pendleton by these and patterns. other trade Historic Landmark, the - the Art of the Americas galleries—53 an elegant Italian Renaissance-style rooms on four floors—with our curator Victorian gem in the Back Bay, de Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./3 Participants in the 2011 DAS tour of Boston decorative arts sites (above). Thomas (Tom) Kugelman accepts Service to the Profession Award.

Pier mirror at Harrison Gray House (above), one of a pair, close to 7 1/2 feet tall, with over-sized rope-turned columns supporting carved figures and a classical tablet across the top. Tablet depicts a scene from the Trojan War in which Agamem- non’s heralds have arrived to take the captive slave Briseis away from Achilles. Pair thought to be the ones made by John Doggett (1771–1819), one of Boston’s finest framemakers, for merchant John Osborn, who bought the Otis House in 1801. Pair hangs between windows of two first- floor front rooms of the Otis House, exactly where, according to Osborn’s inventory, they were Louis XV garniture de cheminee (below). Purchased by Charles placed nearly 200 years earlier. Hammond Gibson Jr. in 1935 for the music room of his home, as he worked to restore the house to its original condition after the death of his mother, Rosamond Warren Gibson, in 1934.

signed by Edward Clarke Cabot. Di- tion of the Service to the Profession rector Charles Swift told us about the Award to Thomas and Alice Kugel- family’s history and showed us through man - fashionably furnished rooms, notewor- cate decorated with motifs from the thy for its wallpapers and abundance Kugelmans’, in the formbook, of Connecticut a special certifi Valley of objects—and a rarely seen ventilator Furniture shaft that brings light to the interior of and rendered by Laura D. Williamson. the house. Thomas. The accepted certificate the was award created on the Nichols House Kugelmans’ behalf, accompanied by his Museum - daughter Margery Hofer, a curator at nished The with final the stop eclectic was decorative arts the New-York Historical Society. Participants take a closer look at furnishings collections, another of landscape Bulfinch gardener design, and fur As many of us headed to the during the tour (above). - airport, a few fortunate participants tor Flavia Cigliano was our escort made an unscheduled visit to the Ayer suffragistthrough the Rose house, Standish which Nichols. is maintained Direc Mansion, with façade and interiors exactly as it looked in the early 1900s. designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. agenda: a visit to Winterthur in the fall The coda to the weekend was a All told, it was a rewarding trip, and aour tour hosts of decorative in Boston. artsNext sites on the in reception at this house and presenta- Elizabeth De Rosa upstate New York (see page 1).

thanks to organizer 4/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Feature The Carolinas and the decorative arts —a partnership throughout regional history By Scott Provancher, President, Arts & Science Council rom pottery to quiltmaking, the countries such as England and Germa- Carolinas preserve their rich ny settled their families in the present- Charleston was the primary port of Fhistory through various forms day Seagrove area of central North entryin the intoUnderground the country, Railroad. South Caro Since- of decorative arts that date back Carolina. lina had the greatest concentration hundreds of years. Charlotte, NC, has These families typically lived on of slaves in the union, resulting in become a center for showcasing the remote farms built on deposits of clay, the prominence of quiltmaking in the and made pottery to sell and trade. In - the culture and history of the Carolinas. the early 20th century, the arts and ries has inspired African-Americans to Thesignificance Mint Museum of the ,decorative Harvey B. arts Gantt in crafts movement swept the country Carolinas.pick up their Recent fabric study and needlesof oral histo again Center for African American Arts and potters began transforming their + Culture, and Bechtler Museum of traditional pottery into more stylish Quilters like Faith Ringgold, Clemen- Modern Art all display a variety of tineto revitalize Hunter the and tradition Winnie ofMcQueen quilting. are decorative arts pieces in their collec- called “fancy ware” and today is called keeping the African-American tradition tions. pieces, using various glazes, which they of quilting alive. Even today, African- These three partners, along with transition kept North Carolina’s oldest American quilting circles throughout the John S. and James L. Knight Theater, andNorth most Carolina continuous pottery. industry This significant alive the Carolinas meet regularly. comprise the Levine Center for the and thriving. - Arts, an arts community made possible ern Art is home to decorative arts through a multi-million donations by Providing a visual representation pieces The by Bechtler brothers Museum Alberto of and Mod Diego the Leon Levine Foundation and Duke of the history of the Carolinas. Giacometti. Although Alberto is best Energy. known for his elongated Expressionist The Mint Museum showcases In addition to the Mint Museum’s sculptures, he also created smaller- nearly 10,000 decorative art pieces at Decorative Arts Collection, the scale works that were a testament to its two facilities, the Mint Museum museum showcases two other exhib- Uptown and Mint Museum Randolph, its composed of decorative art works. effort into these decorative pieces as including ceramics, silver, glass, fur- - his substantialattention to later detail. works. He put as much niture and textiles, comprising two- able Dress Collection features nearly Decorative works by Alberto in the thirds of all the works of art displayed The10,000 Historic items Costume spanning and three Fashion centuries in the museum. The ceramics collection of fashion history. This collection was founded in 1972 as a concentrated ef- Bechtler collection are a rare bronze fort to save community heirlooms. The asnecklace, a knob bronzefor a small medallions box). Decorative and a includeis the largest the holdings and most of significantNorth Carolina of Mint Museum of Craft + Design, part gilded bronze small female head (used pottery,these collections. which amounts Particular to more highlights than international studio craft and design lamps,works byand Diego a rug. include The Giacometti bronze and broth - quarter of the 18th century to the pres- inof the Mintareas Museum of glass, Uptown,jewelry, furniture, collects glass tables, bronze table and floor ent,2,300 showing pieces, howwith thisworks craft from continues the last wood art and other items made after because it permitted them to sculpt in to transform over time. 1900. greaters preferred detail. working with bronze, For many years, quilting has been a Art also showcases a variety of deco- “One significant Benjaminpiece at Mint Wade and provides a visual insight into the The Bechtler Museum of Modern OwenMuseum,” said Randolph Brian Gallagheris the Han ,Vase, curator intricaciespopular form of African-Americanof art in the United culture States 20th-century modernism. Works in- ofmade decorative circa 1937 arts by at the Mint Museum. rativeclude tapestriesart pieces by Alexandermajor figures Calder of ; for African American Arts + Culture ceramic pieces by Pablo Picasso; and North Carolina pottery to enter our hasand featuredhistory. The a quilt Harvey with B. historical Gantt Center works by Le Corbusier, Joan Miró, permanent“This piece wascollection.” the first example of Fernand Léger and Roy Lichtenstein. Collection. In these ways, the decorative arts part of the Carolinas for more than significance to the museum in its Pride- provide a visual representation of the 200 Pottery-makingyears, starting when has been potters a vital from ries have recounted the role of quilting history of the Carolinas. Recent studies detailing oral histo

Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./5 Events Treasures Tales San Francisco Fall Antiques Show Today with Art and Antiques,” Thomas hospital during the Civil War; and a trip San Francisco, CA Jayne, “The David Curated Kleinberg Home: andDesigning Suzanne to1843 the former Westervelt-Warner plantation home Museum used as a October 27–30, 2011 Lovell, interior designers and authors; of American Art (Tuscaloosa, AL), a www.sffas.org Suzanne Tucker, moderator. private collection with more than 500 This six-part lecture series relates paintings, furniture, sculpture and Fashion Icons and Insiders decorative arts objects representing show, Hidden Treasures. It is inspired 10th Annual Fashion Symposium American history. byto thethe themepearl—the of the treasure 30th anniversary hidden Museum at Fashion Institute of Sessions on November 4 include within an oyster shell that is the tra- Technology a welcome by Gail Andrews New York, NY director, and Jeffrey Munger, chair- highlights antiques and arts that have www.fit.edu man, American Ceramic Circle, BMA (ACC), somethingditional 30th-anniversary to hide: secret drawers,gift—and November 3 and 4, 2011 followed by lectures: optical illusions, objects that change “More than Jasper: Wedgwood from one function to another and faux the exhibition Daphne Guinness, the symposium Presented features in conjunction scholars, withauthors Museum of Art,” Dr. Anne Forschler- precious. and curators, and fashion-industry Tarraschin the Collection of the Birmingham finishesThe masqueradingreasons behind as these something acts of professionals discussing fashion icons deception may be serious, such as a and insiders, from Marie Antoinette to , Marguerite Jones Harbert tea caddy with a compartment for a Guinness. and John M. Harbert III CuratorJoey of valuable silver tea spoon; whimsical, For prices, registration and current BracknerDecorative, director,Arts, BMA; Alabama Center such as a snuff box in the shape of a for Traditional “Alabama Folk Culture Pottery,” (Montgomery, shoe; practical, such as a side table or send an e-mail message to museu- AL); that unfolds into a set of library stairs; information, go to fitnyc.edu/museum - als: Decorative Motifs in Vietnamese of painted porcelain. Items are drawn [email protected]. and Fancy: Ceramics from “Dragon Claws and Lotus Pet or esthetic, such as flowers made out Across the Globe of Art,” Dr. Don Wood, Virginia and Area and participating dealers. American Ceramic Circle WilliamCeramics M. at Spencer the Birmingham III Senior Museum Curator fromTopics private include: collections around the Bay Symposium 2011 Symposium Program “European Ceramics in the Vic- the Celebrated Women Who Wore Birmingham Museum of Art of Asian Art, BMA: Them,” “Born Ruth to bePeltason Beautiful:, editor Pearls and and Birmingham, AL Nicholas Dawes, lecturer, and author of Living Jewels: www.artsbma.org torianvice president Era: Inspiration for Special from Collections, the Past, Masterpieces from Nature: Coral, Pearls, November 3–6, 2011 PresentHeritage and Auction Future,” Galleries (New Horn, Shell, Wood & Other Exotica (New This event highlights the Birming- York, NY); York, NY); ham Museum of Art “Adventurous … modern … in- “Collecting Opportunities: The of ceramics from all regions and peri- triguing: American Ceramics and the Henry ods. Themes range from (BMA) Vietnamese collection Drama of Modernity, 1924–1941,” Jay Howard-Sneyd, vice chair, Asian Art, ceramics to Alabama folk pottery to and Emma Lewis Lecture, Dr. Graham RiseSotheby’s of the (NewAsian York,Art Markets,” NY); Meissen stoneware and Wedgwood, Boettcher - English and French porcelain. Géza von Habsburg, Fabergé guest A pre-symposium trip to Colum- “English, William Ceramics Cary for Hulsey the 18th Cura curator, “Princely Virginia Treasures,” Museum Archduke of Fine Dr. bus, MS, includes tours of the Tennes- Centurytor of American Dinner Table,”Art, BMA; Dr. Maurice Arts, lecturer and author (New York, see Williams home, constructed in Hillis, independent ceramics scholar NY); 1875 and renovated; Temple Heights, (Chester, England). November 5 begins with the ACC’s Robert Dixie Butler annual meeting, followed by “The Wittman “U.S. vs., former Art Thieves: special Talesagent From and andthe restored her extensive home collection 1937 home of ofParian Mrs. Ceramics Collection in Schloss Frieden- the FBI’s Real Indiana Jones,” - and the lateRosedale Carl Butler,, an example of Italianate architecture founder, Federal Bureau of Investiga andin the Paris South porcelain; built in 1856and that has thestein, 18th Gotha, Century,” and the Dr. Presentation Martin Eberle of , Age:tion ArtArt CrimeDirection Team, from and Films author of the(PA); recently been restored to its original director,Boettger SchlossStoneware Friedenstein in the First (Gotha,Half of “Designing Hollywood’sCathy Whitlock Golden, in - state and houses a collection of furni- Germany); terior designer and author (Nashville, ture by New York cabinetmaker John TN);1920s and and ’30s,” Henry Belter; lunch at Whitehall, an Continued on next page “From ‘magots’ to ‘Grand Homes’: 6/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Some thoughts on the evolution of 18th www.historic-deerfield.org tional society on both sides of the At- century French porcelain sculpture,” November 11–13, 2011 lantic. After Edward died in 1972, she Aileen Dawson This forum delves into the creative lived quietly in France. Sotheby’s sold Medieval Collections, British Museum heart of Colonial America, with a full (London, England);, curator of Post- day of workshops on Friday and six in Geneva in 1987 and a smaller selec- “The Order of Cincinnati on Chi- lectures on Saturday and Sunday, in- tionthese in jewels London for in the November benefit of 2010. charity - cluding a keynote address by Dr. Adam This lecture is an annual scholarly lica?,” Shirley Mueller, independent Bowett, independent furniture scholar ceramicsnese export scholar porcelain: (Indianapolis, Real or Rep IN); and author of Early Georgian Furniture, of Museum Volunteers and the Euro- “20th-century porcelain for the 1715–1740 (2009. peanlecture Curators organized of the by Departmentthe Department of table,” Stephen Harrison, curator of Speakers include Dr. Kimberly World Cultures. Sotheby’s (Canada) Decorative Arts and Design, Cleveland Alexander, chief curator, Strawbery Inc. provided funds in 1992 to support Museum of Art Banke; Brock Jobe, professor of founding this lecture. The proceeds American Decorative Arts, Winterthur - (Cleveland, OH);Robert Museum and author of Harbor and ment of World Cultures (European Sec- Doares “New, museum Light on educator, the President indepen Hayes- Home: The Furniture of Southeastern from the lecture benefit the Depart dentWhite ceramics House Dinner scholar Service,” and 2010 ACC Massachusetts, 1710–1850 (2009); Mineralogy Department are assisting grant recipient, Colonial Williams- Thomas Michie Elkinstion). This and year,the European members Curators of the ROM in burg Foundation (VA); “From things for villas to princely Decorative Arts and, Russell Sculpture, B. and Art Andrée of available only to persons who purchase Europe,Beauchamp Museum Stearns of SeniorFine Arts, Curator Bos -of ticketsthe identification for the lecture.) clinic. (The service is Timothy ton; Joshua Lane, curator of Academic Elkins has more than 20 years of Wilsongifts: Maiolica, keeper for of Renaissance Western Art, Dukes Ash- Historic experience in the Jewelry Department moleanand Duchesses Museum of Urbino,” Deerfield; and Janine Skerry, cura- at Sotheby’s and is a frequent lecturer (Oxford, England); and torPrograms of Metals, and Colonial of Furniture, Williamsburg at jewelry conferences. She recently annual gala dinner, University with r emarksof Oxford (Williamsburg, VA) and co-author of completed her term as president of on “The American Ceramic Circle Salt-Glazed Stoneware in Early America the American Society of Jewelry Annual Symposium 2012: A Sneak (2009). Historians and is also a member of Jason Busch, Alan G. and Jane For more information and regis- the Gemological Institute of America A. Lehman Curator of Decorative Arts Alumnae Association. She has con- andPeek,” Curatorial Chair for Collections, tributed articles to the Journal of the Carnegie Museum of Art tration, contact Julie Marcinkiewicz Gemological Institute of America and at 413-775-7179 or events@historic- written on period jewelry styles for Event sponsors include(Pittsburgh, Christie’s, Studiesdeerfield.org. in Silver—Jewels of the Sotheby’s Preview Skinner,PA). Inc., and Sotheby’s. Duchess of Windsor 18th Annual Silver Lecture magazine. Workshops on November 6 focus on: Royal Ontario Museum Cost: ROM members, seniors, - “Asian Post-Symposium and Asian ExportConnoisseurship Ceram- Toronto, Ontario, Canada quired.students, To $30/person; register online, general go to public, www. ics,” Don Wood; Ron Fuchs II, curator, www.rom.on.ca $35/person. Pre-registration is re Reeves Collection, Washington and November 30, 2011 This year’s Studies in Silver lecture Completerom.on.ca/whatson. a registration To registerform and by make “Wedgwood,” Anne Forschler- paymentphone, call at 416-586-5797.the Information By Desk drop-off: of the LeeTarrasch University; Margaret (Lexington, Burnham VA); , inde- presented by Carol Elkins, senior viceis on president, “The Signy Jewelry & Cléophée” Department, and is include program name, payment and ME); Sotheby’s (New York, NY). Activities totalmuseum number during of tickets,visiting and hours. mail By to: mail, pendent objects conservator (Union, - Maurice Hillis; Jim Burnham, inde- silver, jewelry and gemstones. “English Pottery and Porcelain,” Dr. includeThe an American Identification socialite Clinic Wallis for ONRoyal Canada Ontario M5S Museum, 2C6. A 20%Studies cancella in Sil- ME) tionver Lecture, fee applies. 100 Cancellations Queen’s Park, must Toronto, be pendentFor more objects information, conservator contact (Union, - Forschler-Tarrasch at 205-254-2976 Warfield Simpson (b. Bessie Wallis before date of program. or [email protected]. To join the Warfield, 1896–1986) shocked con received no less than five business days ACC, contact Suzanne Findlan Hood ventional society when identified as Symposium on Czech Avant-Garde Art at [email protected]. thronethe mistress of England of the for Prince her. ofTheir Wales. love and Modern Glass affair,In December which may 1936, have he renouncedbegun as early the Museum of Fine Arts-Houston Balance and Beauty: Georgian Design Houston, TX in Early America of jewels and luxury objects. mfah.org Historic Deerfield as 1934,As the is Dukecommemorated and Duchess by of a seriesWind- November 5, 2011 Deerfield, MA sor, they made the rounds of interna- This event is in conjunction with

Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./7 the exhibition New Formations: Czech and art centers across the country Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass throughout 2012. from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collec- The American Studio Glass move- Funding tion. ment began with two glass workshops Guest curators Karel Srp and Len- held at the Toledo Museum of Art Applications are open for the ka Bydžovská; Matthew Witkovsky, in 1962. The workshops were taught American Ceramic Circle (ACC) curator and chair of the photography by Harvey K. Littleton, who, with awards of up to $5,000 for expenses department at the Art Institute of Chi- scientist Dominick Labino, introduced associated with preparing scholarly pa- cago; and Jindřich Toman, professor a small furnace built for glassworking pers based on original research in the that made it possible for individual art- history of ceramics. Grant recipients Michigan, are among the speakers. ists to work in independent studios. are required to offer completed papers of Slavic Languages at the University of Glass programs were established for publication in the ACC Journal and MESDA Saturday Seminar - may be invited to speak at an annual Museum of Early Southern ton, California College of the Arts by ACC symposium. The next deadline Decorative Arts Marvinat the University Lipofsky of, and Wisconsin Rhode Islandby Little for completed applications is April 1, Winston-Salem, NC School of Design Dale 2012. www.mesda.org Chihuly. To receive an application form November 12, 2011 Anniversary events (RISD), slated led by for 2012 and a statement of general principles This program on the material include: pertaining to the grants process, go to culture of alcohol in the early South, Voices of Contemporary Glass: the ACC website, www.amercercir.org. in conjunction with the “Our Spirited The 50th Anniversary of the Ameri- Address any questions to: Ancestors”: The Decorative Art of can •Studio Glass Movement, Boca Anne Forschler-Tarrasch Drink exhibition, features speakers Raton Museum of Art (FL), January ACC Grants Chairman such as Dennis Pogue, vice president Curator of Decorative Arts George Washington’s Michael Petry: The Touch of the Birmingham Museum of Art Mount Vernon, who oversaw the Oracle18–June, Palm 3, 2012 Springs Art Museum ofreconstruction Preservation, of George Washington’s (FL), • March 17–July 29, 2012 Whisky Distillery; Robert Hunter, The Legacy of Littleton: Har- [email protected] Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd. editor, Ceramics in America; and Daniel vey Littleton and his Wisconsin Birmingham, AL 35203-2278 or Ackermann, exhibit curator. Glass • Program Students, Bergstrom Mahler Museum (Neenah, WI), Octo- Art & Design • Fashion • Furnishings sessions: the Doric Order from Antiq- 24th Annual Washington Craft Show The 2012 glass art events are ever- Commonwealth University, has four Washington, DC ber 8, 2012–February 24, 2013 mansions of the 18th and 19th cen- www.WashingtonCraftShow.com - turies,uity to Norththe Colonial and South; Revival; Classical forgotten and December 2–4, 2011 changing; as information is finalized, Esthetic movement manifestations This craft show features more than details can be found at http://con in American “Art Tile,” particularly in 185 jury-selected artists and designers Wheretempglass.org/2012-celebration. Scholar Meets Maker the terra cotta of Louis Sullivan; and from around the country who work in 6th Biennial Henry D. Green metamorphoses of the Classical tradi- different media, including ceramics; sil- Symposium Georgia Museum of Art The Center for Palladian Studies Athens, GA intion America in Richmond’s Fan District. paper;ver, bronze wood; and and copper; glass. mixed media; www.georgiamuseum.org institutions sponsor the symposium. decorative and wearable fiber; jewelry; February 2–4, 2012 Admissionand is a free dozen to students,other cultural $8 50th anniversary of studio glass art No program details were available per person for members of sponsor- in America at presstime; check the DAS website ing institutions and $10 per person Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass (www.DecArtsSociety.org) for infor- (AACG) mation closer to the event date. for a post-conference reception at the Throughout the USA restoredfor others. Hancock-Wirt-Caskie Reservations are necessary House January–December 2012 Traditions—III, Architectural (1808–09). To celebrate this milestone and History and the Decorative Arts To register, send check payable to Art Alliance for 18th Symposium - Contemporary Glass (AACG), a not- Virginia Commonwealth University, - recognize artists, the Virginia Historical Society “VCU Symposium” to Symposium, De is to further the development and ap- Richmond, VA partment of Art History, Virginia Com preciationfor-profit organization of art made fromwhose glass, mission has www.vcu.edu monwealth University,November Box 843046, 11. initiated more than 100 glass demon- November 18, 2011 922 ForWest a brochureFranklin Street, or other Richmond, informa- strations, lectures and exhibitions that - tion,VA 23284-3046, contact Courtney by Culbreth at 804- will take place in museums, galleries fessor Charles Brownell of Virginia 828-2784 or [email protected]. This conference, directed by Pro 8/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Acquisitions

Alice S. Kandell (New York, NY) decanters. They feature exceptional The Museum of Fine Arts, clarity and a cool, gray color, and are Boston (MFA; MA) has unveiled the shrine • room, with more than 220 art embellished with cut motifs of straw- Linde • Family Wing for Contemporary objects,has donated to the her Smithsonian Tibetan Buddhist’s Arthur berry diamonds, prisms and pointed Art, which includes seven new galler- M. Sackler Gallery (Washington, DC). arches. The central medallions are ies. More works of art are also on view The shrine is so large that the gal- engraved with the Great Seal of the lery has to build a room to house and display it. Items include art created Benjamin Bakewell is considered worksin the Edwardby SMFA H. alumni Linde Galleryand annual (about United of States. presentations3,900 square feet), of the which Community showcases Arts Initiative project; on Art Walls; and decoratedbetween the with 13th seashells and 19th and centuries, coral, the “father of the American flint glass andsuch scroll as a silver paintings Buddha on silk from brocade, Mongolia variousbusiness.” partnerships, He began his his glassmaking glassworks where the exhibition Ellsworth Kelly: that Kandell acquired in travels from career in Pittsburgh in 1808. Through Woodin the HenrySculpture and debutsLois Foster (see Gallery,Exhibi- 1965–79. was known for its high-quality, color- tions), including the decorative arts. Carnegie Museum of Art lessoperated formula. until 1882. Bakewell’s glass The renovation of the wing has more than tripled the exhibition space. its collection • The of early American glass and(Pittsburgh, contemporary PA) has craft acquired and design, works for workmanship: In 1816, Bakewell a pair of sent wine President decanters Gallery features the decorative arts including two cut and engraved glass alsoJames decorated Madison withan example the Great of Sealhis firm’s of in contemporary The Daphne andcraft Peter and design.Farago water decanters commissioned as part Contemporary: Selections from The - the United States. DaphneThe first Farago installation Collection, there, features Crafting of a large serviceBakewell, by President Page James and himWhen with Monroe his own visited pair Pittsburghof decanters. in works given to the MFA and lent from BakewellMonroe in. 1818The last and documentation made by Pitts of MonroeSeptember followed 1817, upBakewell with an presented order for a the Daphne Farago Collection, many of burgh glass firm which have never before been on view glass. at the museum—some 80 pieces from the objects occurred in 1833, when a 340-pieceThe decanters service of w cutere andacquired engraved the 20th and 21st centuries in ceram- handsdozen forglass nearly decanters two centuries, were sold the from through the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund objectsthe White resurfaced House. Preserved at a rural inauction private in and as a gift from Christopher T. Re- objects represent a diverse array of the Mid-Atlantic region in 2010. bollo. techniques,ics, wood, metal, traditions glass and ideas,fiber. The and The museum also has received a explore a variety of critical and esthetic gift of contemporary craft and design questions. from Deena and Jerome Kaplan Included are the turned wood

single contribution to the decorative Philip Moulthrop, as well as works arts(Bethesda, and design MD) collectionthat marks in the the largest last byand Stanislav resin White Libenský Pine Mosaic and Jaroslava Bowl by decade. Brychtová, Ah Leon, Betty Woodman, Ceramic items include works by John Cederquist, Olga de Amaral, Kenneth Robert Arneson, Ken Price, Jun Ferguson, Rudy Autio and Beatrice Kaneko, Dale Chihuly, and Kathy But- 20th-centuryWood and a sculpted figures suchplate as by Califor- terly. nia clay artist Viola Frey, whose work Daphne Farago is known for her was not previously represented in the interest in artists’ stories and hand- collection. made objects. Originally a collector of The gift adds work by international American folk art, she has since built artists such as Malcolm Zander, Alain her collection, with the support of her Water decanters, glass. 1818–19. 11.5 in. high Mailland and Hans Weissflog, and late husband Peter, in contemporary x 5 in. diameter (29.21 x 12.70 cm), with stop- additions in studio furniture, including craft. per; 9.5 in. (24 .13 cm) high, without stopper. a double rocking chair by California Philadelphia Museum of Bakewell, Page and Bakewell, American, un- furniture-maker Sam Maloof Art - der name 1813–27. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and walnut Monkey Settee by Judy sitions • The in the American Art Depart- and gift of Christopher T. Rebollo. Kensley McKie, and an Architect’s, a bronze Va- ment. (PA) has made several craft acqui These are the earliest known fully let chair by Alphonse Mattia (see DAS cut and engraved American water Newsletter, Spring–Summer 2011). by Michael Peterson to enter the √ Coastal Stack V, the first work Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./9 museum’s collection and the last in culmination of his exploration of the with old furniture. Later, they visited medium. museums and made purchases from for the traveling exhibition Michael Gregory established the ceramics antiques dealers and auctions while Peterson:Peterson’s Evolution/RevolutionCoastal Stack series, created. It program at the Cranbrook School they lived in the Washington, DC, area. was a forerunner of the postwar Studio They came back to Kentucky in 1979 as Craft movement, when artists worked. He experienced collectors, and their love structurallyis composed like of 13 a cairn related on elemental a mountain individually in their own studios, for the state and its history soon made summit.blocks and a stylized form, stacked creating works of art in their chosen them Kentucky collectors. Rudolf Staffel, director of the New Jersey Federal About the Noe Collection work √ tended Tree Chalice, to be based by on traditional Artsmaterials. Project In 1937, he was appointed Early Kentucky furniture forms the forms,who began such as as a the painter. platter His and earlier footed Administration. core of the collection. Many pieces can of the Works Projects be documented to particular families, 68 to set up a study abroad extension locations and cabinetmaking tradi- bowl. While in Rome, Italy, from 1966–Tyler tions, helping visitors, scholars and School of Art, he created and cast four collectors better understand the pat- program for Temple University’s terns of migration, trade and taste that shaped early Kentucky furniture. inchalices plasteline in bronze. clay, an He oil-based, did not have reus - ableaccess modeling to a kiln compound in Rome, so that he neverworked their spidery legs, come from a related hardens; created molds; and cast each group Several of furniture pieces, associated characterized with by the northeastern part of the state. The most ambitious example, a chest one in bronze. of drawers made between 1795 and 1810, is inlaid with leafy vines and has segmented fans in contrasting light and dark woods. Toscane, linen bas-relief. Sheila Hicks (American, born 1934). 3 x 60 inches (7.6 x 152.4 cm). 1994. Gift of anonymous donor, 2011. Speed Art Museum (Louis- ville, KY) has received its largest dona- tion •of The Kentucky art, from Robert and Norma Noe, including 119 examples of early Kentucky furniture, silhouettes, textiles, ceramics and silver, which more than doubles the museum’s hold- ings of Kentucky-made decorative arts and paintings from the 19th century. Artworks from the Noe Collection are Tree Chalice, bronze. Rudolf Staffel (American, currently on view (see Exhibitions). 1911–2002 (born San Antonio, TX). 14 3/8 In 2007, the Noes promised to give x 11 inches (36.5 x 27.9 cm). 1966–68. Purchased with the Women’s Committee their collection to the Speed over sev- Craft Fund, 2011. eral years. With the museum’s expan- Vase, blown cased glass, etched and cameo- Shelia Hicks’s use of linen their promise ahead of schedule. When carved; pink, green and white geometric, sion underway, they decided to fulfill and √her Toscane, interest a in linen juxtapositions bas-relief, and the expansion project is complete in floral vessel. ca. 1900. Purchased with funds exemplifiesfusions of color and surface structure. 2016, additional space will be available from Mr. and Mrs. James E. Summar, Sr., in for exhibiting early Kentucky art. memory of Billy and Rebecca Hitt. to her graduate studies with Josef The Noe Collection will also be inte- andHer explorationAnni Albers of at bas-relief Yale and linksher 1957 back grated into the museum’s Kentucky sugar chests and two sugar desks, The Noes’ gift also includes five thesis study on “Andean Textile Art.” regional forms designed to store and an image database devoted to docu- protect sugar, a costly commodity in mentingOnline Arts Kentucky Resource art. (www.KOAR.org), It is the museum’s first acquisition- of in the dining room or parlor for all to early 19th-century Kentucky. Placed ramicistHicks’s bas-relief Waylande work. Gregory , the only About Robert and Norma Noe see, sugar chests and desks kept the √ Fountain of the Atom, by ce As newlyweds in 1955, thrift led sugar at hand for sweetening social World’s Fair executed in clay and the the Noes to furnish their apartment lubricants like tea, coffee and alcoholic public sculpture at the 1939 New York 10/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. drinks. The Noes acquired many inlaid examples, including one that descend- ed in the Madison County area. Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA) has acquired a rare Thomas • The Webb & Sons (Stourbridge, England) vase. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts the Oceania • The vase by René Buthaud, (VMFA; Richmond) has acquired who was born in Bordeaux and became anda key the figure Colonial in the Exhibition École de Bordeaux, and was movement.almost certainly The vase displayed dates atto the1931 Palais Métropolitain with its pendant, the now-lost Africa vase. The exhibition was the last international world’s fair exclusively devoted to the celebration of international colonialism. France hosted the exposition to demonstrate its colonial power and stimulate the French public’s interest in its colonial “Oceania” vase, glazed and enameled stoneware. 17½ in. high x 9½ in. diameter (44.5 x 24 cm), empire. ca. 1931. Monogram on base: RB. René Buthaud, French, 1886–1986. various artistic sources, from antiquity a section of Janniot’s façade now con- Rouard Buthaud sought inspiration from- served at the Musée des arts Décora- as the Colonial Exhibition; the Africa cism and Cubism, but had his own tifs vase appeared in Paris in in a 1931,photograph the same of the year to the Renaissance, French Romanti - Mobilier et Dé- medium of ceramics required a degree dant (Bordeaux). the Africa vase were displayed at coration with information to the effect ofsignature simplicity style. in theHe oftencomposition. said that the the XVth Both exhibitionthe Oceania of vaseArtisans and its Fran pen- Decemberthat vases with1931 exotic issue themesof were on The subject of the vase is inspired çais Contemporains at the Galerie view at the gallery. - possibleby Primitive that Art. the Buthaudtotem pole was on an which ac thetive youngcollector woman of Primitive rests was Art part and of it theis www.DecArtsSociety.org sculpted a small enameled replica andartist’s continued personal to collection. create other He smaller later works on the same subject, including

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Appointments Nicholas R. Bell, curator at and published widely. the Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian master’s degrees in Art History from- University of Toronto and has lectured Institution • , Washington, DC) will hold thetine University Mishler Associate of South Curator Carolina. of American Murphy Art was at the Bradford Huntington and Chris Curator of American Craft and Decora- Library, Art Collections and Botani- tivethe titleArt (seeof Fleur News and). Charles Bresler cal Gardens Matthew Dawson has joined the curated exhibitions on American art senior management team of the Crys- from the 19th (San century Marino, to the CA). present He has tal Bridges • Museum of American Art Taxing Visions: Finan- cial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Cen- art and education, David Houston has andtury organized American Art with Leo Mazow, assumed(Bentonville, the roleAR) ofas directordeputy director of curato of- rial, and Kevin Murphy is now curator of American art. associate Murphy professor taught artof Art history History at the at Dawson came from the Musical the University of Arkansas. - Instrument Museum AZ) and has more than 20 years of ex- University of California at Santa Bar perience in architecture (MIM; and museumPhoenix, bara and the University of California- management. at Los Angeles. He holds a doctoral Dawson was creative director at wheredegree his in Artwork History was supported from the Uni by fel- versity of California at Santa Barbara, the Art Gallery of Ontario from 2007– lowships from the Terra Foundation - for American Art and the Henry Luce ton, GotliebOntario, is Canada) a PhD candidate and an expert in Art in designer, design director, principal and Foundation CanadianHistory at craft Queen’s and Universitydesign with (Kings a 25- executive09. He spent vice five president years as with an exhibit Lord - year career as curator. She is co-writing . He also has a master’s Cultural Resources, a global museum- sachusetts and a bachelor’s degree Design in Canada, and serves on the planning practice in San Francisco and degree from the University of Mas Toronto, and was an award-winning Colleges in California. - from Pitzer College of the Claremont senior designer for Cecconi Simone Claudia Gould, director of sityProfessional of Toronto, Advisory Mississauga, Committee and On for- Interior Design and director of design the Institute of Contemporary Art tarioArt and College Art History of Art Sheridan/Univer and Design’s On for SimEx Iwerks • - holds a master’s degree in architecture phia), is the new director of the Jewish worked with the Gardiner in the past, (University of Pennsylvania, Philadel , both in Toronto. He- Museum (New York, NY). She succeeds sheSite wonGallery the Advisory Ontario Board.Crafts CouncilWHen she elor’s degree in history from Middle- Joan Rosenbaum, who is retiring after Jean Johnson Curatorial Award for frombury College.Princeton University and a bach On the Table: 100 Years of Functional - Gould was executive director of Ceramics in Canada. ence as a curator, professor and public Artists30 years Space at the (New museum. York, NY) from Houston has 27 years of experi 1994–99 and a curator at the Wexner of the Ogden Museum of Southern Center for the Arts Artart administrator. (New Orleans, He LA) was from chief 2001–09 curator where she expanded the exhibition and co-director since January 2010. program and staff. (Columbus, OH), Peter Kaellgren has been at the Contemporary Arts Center appointed as interim chief curator and (NewHe was Orleans) interim for director one year of visual and spent arts Rachel • Dr. Gotlieb and Dr. Elisa Sani as South Carolina associate curators at the Gardiner Arts Commission. From 1991–2001, Museum (Toronto, Ontario, Cana- da). hefive was years gallery with directorthe and lecturer Sani is an Italian maiolica scholar Kaellgren was a curator of Eu- who started her curatorial career at the ropean Decorative Arts at the Royal Wallace Collection (London, England). at Columbia;Clemson University. School of HeArchitecture, also taught Ontario Museum (Toronto, Canada) at the University of South Carolina assistant curator at the Victoria and ceramics, silver, glass, furniture and AlbertFor the Museumlast five years, (London), she has where been she an designfor more graphics than 30 of years, ca. 1500 working to the with NewBrandenburg Orleans. University of Technology has been involved in creating the new (Cottbus, Germany); and University of Continued on next page Houston holds bachelor’s and present. He developed courses for the 12/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Ceramics Galleries and is curator of designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. graphics at the School of Visual Arts. the forthcoming show V&A Master- Luke Syson becomes the Iris and She is a collector of contemporary art, pieces of Renaissance Maiolica and has also been a board member of recent publications include co-author, the Department • of European Sculpture BRIC Arts/Media and Creative Time. with Timothy Wilson, of work on. Her andB. Gerald Decorative Cantor Arts Curator at the in Metropoli Charge of - Gerald (Gerry) Ward, Katharine tan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Lane Weems Senior Curator at the the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Museum • of Fine Arts the Renaissance Maiolica collection of holds dual positions at the National MA) and newsletter editor of the DAS, award-winning exhibition catalog on Galleryeffective (London, in January England): 2012. He curator currently of will retire from the museum (MFA; atBoston, the end Xanto(Perugia, at theItaly) Wallace and contributing Collection. to the years at the museum, where he has Italian Paintings before 1500 and head workedof December since 2011. 1962, He with caps the off recent his 19 Courtauldof Research. Institute of Art opening of the Art of the Americas of London, Syson received where he his also BA studied from the for Wing (see News) and the exhibition , University Chihuly: Through The Looking Glass 1991–2002, he was curator of Med- (see Exhibitions). alsthree at theyears British in the Museum PhD program. and was From intellectual coordinator and co-curator of Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century, a permanent gallery that opened in

senior curator on the planning team for2003. the In Victoria 2002–03, and he Albert served Museum as a ’s

Lindsay Pollock Syson began work at the National is the new editor-in-chief of Art in Medieval and Renaissance Galleries. America • Art journalist - to catalogs of these exhibitions and berg and is the author of The Girl with others,Gallery andin 2003. has written He has contributedfor scholarly the Gallery. She. was a reporter for Bloom journals such as the Burlington Maga- Charlotte Potter, a conceptual zine and National Gallery Technical artist and designer from Vermont, has Bulletin Ward has contributed to a myriad of MFA exhibitions, publications and joined • the Chrysler Museum of Art Dora Thornton, of Objects of Virtue: (Norfolk, VA) as Glass Studio manager. Art in Renaissance. He is also Italythe co-author, (London andwith especially known for his work on the The studio opens on November 2, Los Angeles, 2001), which examines Shyacquisitions Boy, She during Devil and his tenure.Isis: The He Art is 2011. decorative arts in 15th- and early 16th- of Conceptual Craft exhibition (2007), - centurythe meanings Italy. and values of fine and which presented a range of contempo- Potter received a bachelor of fine Syson succeeds Ian Wardropper, rary decorative arts that represented Glassarts from at Rhode Alfred Island University School and of a Demas- who is now director of the Frick Col- the coming of age of the American and signter of, wherefine arts she from also the taught. Department Trained ofas lection (New York, NY). international studio craft movement; a glassblower, she has worked at glass James David Draper, the Met’s its success led to the creation of an studios such as Pilchuck Glass School, endowed position for Contemporary - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, interim head of the department until ald and Anita Wornick Curator. Penland School of Crafts and Whea- January.Henry R. Kravis Curator, serves as DecorativeWard was Arts also at the a driving MFA—the force Ron ton Arts. In 2008, she co-founded the behind the exhibitions and accompany- Cirque de Verre, a glass troupe that Brooklyn Museum (NY) elected John has performed at studios and museums S. Tamagni • The board, a member of trustees of the of board the American Studio Furniture, 1940– such as the Toledo Museum of Art since 1987, as chair of the museum. 1990,ing publications American forFolk, The Glass Maker’s Today Hand: by and the Corning Museum of Glass. Stephanie Ingrassia, a trustee American Studio Artists, and many, She has been an artist-in-residence at for 10 years, has been elected board Pilchuck, the Art Making Machine writer and editor, most recently as a Studios, Creative Glass Center of - contributormany others. to He A Newis equally World active Imagined, as a America (at Wheaton Arts), and president. She studied fine arts and art fromhistory the at School Michigan of VisualState and Arts the (New Uni a publication about the museum’s new work has been shown internationally versity of London, and received a BA wing; the award-winning Jewelry by andUniversity is in the of permanent Sydney in Australia. collections Her of has included designing books, maga- Artists: In the Studio, 1940–2000; and the Museum of American Glass and York, NY). Her career in graphic design Ward overseen the selection and dis- the Frieda and Henry J. Neils House, materials, as well as teaching computer zines, newsletters and promotional Native American Art: MFA Highlights. Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./13 play of American decorative arts and sculpture for the new wing for Art of book on ancient glassmaking tech- - the Americas since planning began for niques,has published Molten widely Color, Glassmaking on the topic. inHer degree in Art History from Cornell Antiquity, was published by the Getty InstituteUniversity of and Fine studied Arts museum ad last May. projectministration at the at Abby New Aldrich York University’s Rockefell - objectsthis project. for the He wing has been since instrumental 2001, with Wight helped to oversee a er Folk Art Museum (Williamsburg,. He did a study hundredsin the museum more acquiringin the fold almost as promised 3,000 $275-million renovation, expansion VA) that resulted in being appointed as and reinstallation at the Villa; was galleries and scholarship of this institu- instrumental in helping to create a director of the Pennsylvania Academy gifts. His impact on the collections, revised acquisitions policy to ensure ofa curator the Fine there. Arts He before went succeeding from there to be overstated, according to museum responsible collections development John I. H. Bauer at the Whitney in leadership.tion and the field in general cannot for antiquities; and had a key role in 1974. In retirement, Ward will serve the facilitating a restitution program with MFA as a senior consulting curator Italy. philanthropist Ardis Butler James for the next three years, focusing on has died • Quiltmaker, at 87. She quilt and collectorher husband and planning and fundraising for a catalog - Robert James of the American Furniture collection versity Wight of California, received her Los Ph.D Angeles, from and the antique quilt in 1979; by 1997, they isArt a Historymember department of several international at the Uni had collected more purchased than 1,000 their quilts,first collection with an eye to strategic deac- associations for the study of glass. including historic American examples in electronic form. He will review the Wight succeeds David White- dating to the 18th century and contem- serve the DAS as newsletter editor. house, who has been executive direc- porary studio art quilts. cessioning.In recognition He also of plans Ward’s to continue service to to tor of the museum since 1999. White- The couple started collecting quilts the MFA, the trustees will be asked to house continues his research and con- in the late 1970s, eventually needing vote him Katharine Lane Weems Senior tributions to the museum by serving as to build an extension on their house to Curator Emeritus at their next meeting. senior scholar. The two collaborated in contain their collection. They donated Karol Wight, senior curator of 2007 as co-curators of the exhibition antiquities at the Getty Villa and a Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass • Inspired by Ancient Rome at CMOG themost International of their quilts Quilt to the Study University Center of executive director of the Corning and the Getty Villa. andNebraska-Lincoln Museum (IQSC&M) (UNL) toin 1997,establish and Museumspecialist ofin GlassRoman (CMOG; glass, is NY). the next Whitehouse joined the museum continued to collect quilts, expanding in 1984 as chief curator, was named to ones from around the world. deputy director of collections in 1987, The Jameses endowed the Ar- was promoted to deputy director in 1988, became director in 1992 and was appointed to his current posi- thedis Jameslead gift Professorship to build Quilt of HouseTextiles,, the tion as executive director in 1999. newClothing home and of Designthe IQSC&M; at UNL; and donated have been benefactors of other quilt orga- than 40 percent and led a renovation Alliance for andHe grew expansion CMOG’s that collections was completed by more in American Quilts (AAQ). 2000. As curator of ancient and Islamic nizations,AAQ and including its partners the at Michigan glass, he has published 15 volumes State University Museum and - his leadership, CMOG established its ters and Social Sciences Online have Studioand organized. nine exhibitions. Under beenMATRIX: working Center on for a Quilt Humane Treasures Arts, Let

Quilters Hall of Fame inducted them Obituaries portrait of Ardis and Robert James. The Thomas N. Armstrong III, who as its 2011 honorees in July. is credited with expanding the Whit- Eddy Nicholson, whom the New - ney •Museum of American Art (New York Times • ment of Antiquities of the J. Paul Getty York, NY) as director in the 1970s and colorful player” in collecting art and called a “high-flying and Museum Previously (Malibu, head CA), of theWight Depart oversees ’80s, although he was dismissed over CMOG’s 45,000-object collection, as plans for a new wing, has died at 78. collecting early American artifacts in furniture, died in June at 73. He started well as its studio, library, programming Among his acquisitions for the Whitney the 1980s and was known for bidding and publications. were Alexander Calder’s “Circus,” a at auctions in person, rather than by At the Getty, Wight moved from grouping of more than 50 miniature phone or through a representative, graduate intern to senior curator of performers and animals that have been and helping to move auction prices to - called “pillars” of the Whitney’s collec- previously unknown levels. ous exhibitions exploring glass from tion and American art. At a 1986 Sotheby’s auction, antiquityantiquities. and She its has enduring organized impact, numer and Armstrong earned a bachelor’s Continued on next page

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American Folk Art Museum Van der Meulen, a Dutch immigrant, an endowment to support the current (New York, NY) has closed its long-time and his partner Gerrit Wykstra. curator of craft position at the museum • The building to the Museum of Modern Southeast Asia in the Freer and Sack- Arthome (MoMA) on West and 53rd remains Street, in selling opera -the ler gallery • All 800 collections ceramics of from the mainlandSmithson - the(see Bresler People). Endowment The Smithsonian in April Board 2011. of tion at its smaller location at 2 Lincoln ian Institution (Washington, DC) now Regents Fleur approved and Charles the establishment Bresler as- of Square, but the future of the museum sembled a collection of American was in doubt at presstime for this issue si.edu (Ceramics in Mainland Southeast craft, with an emphasis on textiles and of the DAS newsletter. Asia),appear which at http://seasianceramics.asia. also includes a Library of objects of turned wood; they gave 66 American Ceramic Circle - pieces to the Renwick Gallery, which (ACC) has awarded a grant to Leslie tions on historical ceramics in South- were the focus of the 2010 exhibition Vander • The Meulen Canavan to support eastessays Asia and by a scholars Bibliography around of publicathe world. A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler her original research in the history of Collection. ceramics. She will conduct research on or Time. A native of Washington, DC, the early 20th-century pottery, Van der Items are searchableSmithsonian by Material,American Place Meulen & Wykstra Art Pottery Co. Art Museum (Washington, DC) has (Dunkirk, NY), which was founded in received • The a gift from craft collector and presenterBresler has in served multiple as amuseum docent atpro the- 1905 by Canavan’s great-uncle, Theake arts patron Fleur Bresler to create RenwickContinued for 14 years on andnext has page been a

stationed at the American Embassy log, with Liana Paredes Arend, 1998); People, continued in Moscow from 1972–74. She began Russian Imperial Porcelain at Hill- Armstrong started the bidding for an wood (1999); Art of the Russian North Chippen- curator from 1991, both deputy direc- (contributed chapter, 2001); and What dale wing chair at $400,000 and kept torworking for collections at Hillwood and in chief 1978, curator as chief Became of Peter’s Dream? Court Culture 18th-centurybidding until hePhiladelphia got it for a record- from 1997–2001, and thereafter as in the Reign of Nicholas II (exhibition setting $1.1 million. curator emerita. Nicholson because interested in The Art Newspaper called Trea- collecting American art and furniture surescatalog, into 2003). Tractors: Russian Art Sales when, as president of Congoleum, he 1917–1918 (2008), which she co-ed- sought advice on decorating the compa- ited with colleague Wendy Salmond,

Russian collector”ny’s new headquarters on his own behalf, in Portsmouth, with most “aSilver long in overdue America: and Surviving highly significantthe Melting ofNH. his He acquisitions became a “studious used to furnish and shrewd and publication.”Pot (2010), was Her praised latest book, for its erudi- decorate his family home. When he A Taste for Splen- tion and broad appeal. She also wrote auctioned the contents of the house in dor: Russian Imperial and European nearly 50 articles and papers for publi- 1995, it brought sales of $14 million, Treasures Odom organizedfrom the Hillwood Museum cations and conferences such as Apollo, the most ever paid for a privately held - Antique Collector, Bulletin of the Society collection of early American art. lain and enamel exhibitions (2004–05); of Historians of East European and Anne C. Odom, curator emerita (1998–99); a series of Russian porce Russian Art and Architecture, Bulletin of at Hillwood Estate, Museum and exhibition What Became of Peter’s the Detroit Institute of Arts, Magazine Gardens • (Washington, DC) and an Dream:the joint Court Hillwood/Middlebury Culture in the Reign College Antiques, and Pinakoteke. of Nicholas II Hillwood: George M. Ross, who helped work of Fabergé - 30 Years of Collecting, 1997–2007 establish the National Museum of authoritysian art during on Russian the Soviet imperial period, art, died the (2007). (2003); and Jewish • History on August 25 of complications and the sales fromof Rus an Odom initiated and maintained an accident. She was a leader in the study tiny museum in the(Philadelphia, late 1990s PA),and has and authored, edited and contributed leddied a atcampaign 77. He focused to raise on $154 the millionthen- decorative art, and her contributions to toactive numerous acquisitions publications, policy at including Hillwood and move the museum to new, larger raisingand understanding awareness and of Russian appreciation fine and of Russian Enamels: From Kievan Rus to space, convincing potential donors of - Fabergé (1996); Fabergé at Hillwood the feasibility of the museum, which (1996); A Taste for Splendor: Russian Hillwood’sOdom’s collection passion for are imperial beyond mea Imperial and European Treasures from from 1654 to the present. It opened in sure, according to Hillwood colleagues. The Hillwood Museum (exhibition cata- Novemberfocuses on 2010.the U.S. Jewish experience

Russia began while her husband was Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./15 grams. In 2011, she was named a Com- droid phones that highlights more than not been seen since previous galleries missioner of the Smithsonian Ameri- 100 objects in the collection through - can Art Museum. She has also served audio, video, imagery and text. It is available for downloading at iTunes videoswere closed are featured in 2004 alongside during the artifacts. Renais to craft, including the James Renwick sance ROMToledo expansion Museum project. of ArtNew Allianceon numerous, American nonprofit Craft boards Council related and touch with the app installed is available Woodturning Center or Android Market at $1.99. The iPod masterworks • The in its collection online Musée Lalique (Wingen- for(TMA; access OH) from has putanywhere approximately in the world. 300 and build VisArts (Philadelphia, atsur-Moder, the museum France; at $3/person. www.musee- Through the eMuseum link at the TMA PA). With herWhitney husband, Museum she helped of fund lalique.com), • The an all-Lalique museum, website, users can search and browse American Art (New (Rockville, York, NY) MD). and has opened, in large part through the the collection by object title, artist, ma- Museum • The of Fine Arts (MFA), Houston support of the company’s current terial, date or type. Each entry features (TX) are both recipients of a collection an extended description of the work of Modernist furniture and other works The museum is on top of an 18th- amassed by John R. Eckel Jr., who owner, Art & Fragrance of Switzerland. in and pan around images for detailed died in 2009, including works by Paul galleries, with 650 artifacts arranged viewing.and, for many objects, a way to zoom Evans, Harry Bertoia and Edward bycentury form glassworksand function. and Items has includea dozen Objects are arranged by geo- Wormley. graphical area and time period, such as American and European art from the 70 objects in The Spirit of Modernity: perfumevases, enameled bottles loanedfloral jewelry by Silvio and Denz , 17th–21st centuries; art from Africa, The TheJohn MFA, R. Eckel Houston Jr. Foundation unveiled about Gift whochurch is thewindows, head of along Art & with Fragrance, about 230 Asia, and the Near and Middle East; to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, including one from the 1890s that is and art from the ancient Mediterra- shaped like a teardrop and was molded 12 feel tall, Evans cabinets with fronts by Lalique founder René Lalique on Each section integrates paintings, inincluding patchwork-like Bertoia metalpatterns spires of steel of up and to the kitchen store of his apartment in sculptures,nean, Middle decorative Ages and arts,Renaissance. jewelry, fur - slate, and a triangular Wormley table niture, prints and photographs. that is inlaid with glass tiles by Tiffany. Materials include items from a A large selection of the museum’s International Banana 2005Paris. auction of the estate of Marie- glass collections should be online by Museum (Mecca, CA) has opened after Claude Lalique, granddaughter of next spring, when Toledo hosts the its owners • The bought the collection from a 2012 Glass Art Society international similar themed museum elsewhere in conference. California. inLalique, the air; who and died roof in beams 2003; that a recreated support To use eMuseum, go to www. Frick Collec- a1930s two–ton glass chandelier fountain with from fish the leaping1950s. tion Chazen Museum of Art • A new gallery at the here.”toledomuseum.org/collection and click expected (New to York, involve NY)—the a 665-square-foot first addition will •open The a new wing that will display on “SearchWadsworth Highlights of Atheneum the Collection porticoto the museum enclosed in in almost glass and35 years—is provide (University of Wisconsin,Lalique Madison), including additional space for displaying decora- goblets and perfume. European • The and American decorative tive objects and sculpture. It is sched- about 30 objects by arts.(Hartford, CT) is reinstalling works of uled to open on October 25. The addi- Georgia Mu- Newark Museum (NJ) has tion is supported by a donation from seum • One of Art of four(Athens, new GA),Study the Centers Henry in received a $1-million grant from the New York’s Henry H. Arnhold, who theD. Green Humanities Center at for the the Study of the Andrew • The W. Mellon Foundation for its - Decorative Arts, will be on display African art collection that will make it amples of Meissen porcelain—an item during GMOA’s biennial Henry D. possible to hire a new assistant curator, alsonot collected has promised by the to Frick’s provide founder. 131 ex Green Symposium in February 2012 work with other scholars on research, That collection will be on view through (see Events). The study centers are and expand and reinstall its African art April 29, 2012. key elements of GMOA’s expansion and galleries, to open in 2015. The museum Icon Awards were funded in part by the National also has received a $500,000 challenge in the Arts of the Bruce Museum grant for that project from the National (Greenwich, • The second CT) honored annual the follow- Royal Ontario Museum Susan Endowment(Toronto, Ontario, for the Canada) Humanities. has opened which it must raise another $1.5 mil- E. Lynch; Art Collectors, Jennifer and four •permanent The new galleries: the lion.Endowment for the Humanities, for ingDavid in April: Stockman Patron; Artist, of the Jeff Arts, Koons ; - Linda Nochlin; Art - Critic, Robert Hughes; and Interna- Eaton Gallery of Rome, including the seum • Asto itspart campus, of a 2007 the George university Wash is tionalArt Historian, Art Dealer, Larry Gagosian. Bratty Exhibit of Etruria; Joey and Toby constructingington University a building plan to that add will a mu be Corning Museum of Glass andTanenbaum the Near Gallery East; and of Byzantium; Galleries of Joey the new home of the Textile Museum (CMOG) has released a new mobile Africa:and Toby Nubia. Tanenbaum Several featureGallery never-of Rome (Washington, DC) when it opens in • The - before-seen objects; other objects have Continued on next page

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Alabama more than 800 textile works to the mu- top of another. The kilim was also an A Stitch in Time: Southern Quilts in important part of a bride’s dowry. the African-American Tradition from this collection was in 1990. The term kilim is not technical. Birmingham Museum of Art seum. The first presentation of works It appears to have originated in the Birmingham, AL Kilims Near East as a general designation for www.artsbma.org This selection of weavings was Through December 31, 2011 produced between the 15th and 19th the past decade, the term kilims has Drawing from the museum’s per- centuries by semi-nomadic and village beenflat-weaves—textiles used almost exclusively without to pile. denote In manent collection of American quilts, women of Anatolia, the land east of textiles in tapestry weave. this exhibition explores the African- the Aegean often called Asia Minor by American quilting tradition, from pat- ancient geographers that constitutes Visions and Values: Jewish Life from terns to pictorials. Among the featured much of present-day Turkey. Woven in Antiquity to America quilts are works by Nora Ezell, Yvonne the slit-tapestry technique, primarily Skirball Cultural Center Wells, Chris Clark and the Freedom from the wools of sheep, goats or cam- Los Angeles, CA Quilting Bee. els, these works obtained their hues www.skirball.org from natural dyes derived from locally Ongoing California harvested sources (with the exception Featuring changing displays of The Art of the Anatolian Kilim: of indigo, which is imported). works from the Skirball’s permanent Highlights from the McCoy Jones collection, this exhibition traces the Collection abstract designs that are symbolic ren- history, accomplishments and values The kilims are characterized by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco derings of architectural, human, animal of the Jewish people over 4,000 years de Young Museum and shows how the visions of ancestors San Francisco, CA back to Neolithic times. helped shape values today. and floral motifs, some of which trace www.famsf.org Kilims were created for personal Through June 10, 2012 use and also express group identity, Colorado This exhibition showcases two represent wealth and are a source of Nampeyo: Excellence by Name currency. Technique and design have Denver Art Museum Anatolian kilims given to the Fine been passed from generation to gen- Denver, CO Artsdozen Museums pieces from of Sana collection Francisco of by eration of Anatolian women. Tradition- denverartmuseum.org Caroline McCoy-Jones from 1988–89. Through January 1, 2012 Nampeyo: Excellence by Name ally, kilims were used as floor and table kilims on view include a variety of de- prayer rugs and burial cloths. Many - coverings, room dividers, door flaps, signPre-19th-century types and regional Anatolian styles. flat-woven Caroline were given to local mosques to be used icist’s career, highlighting key elements and H. McCoy Jones have donated traces theContinued spectrum on of next the pageHopi ceram as floor coverings, often layered one on renovated and enlarged galleries on the pre-revolutionary entrance hall News, continued - of the Van Rensselaer Manor House 2014. The museum will continue oper- sign is a contemporary interpretation (Albany, NY). ating at its current 27,000-square-foot the second floor. The architectural de The opening of the new galleries including coved ceilings and natural Metropolitan Museum of of 19th-century Beaux-Arts galleries, a major, multi-part renovation project. facilityArt (New through York, NY)2013. collection of Amer- The new suite includes the An- Arepresents new audio the tour third is part and offinal the phase mu- of ican •art The returns to view in expanded, thonylight flowing W. and throughLulu C. Wang new skylights. Galleries of reconceived new galleries on January 18th-Century American Art, with four Cooper-Hewitt, National 16, 2012, when the museum inaugu- rooms dedicated to American decora- seum’sDesign AudioMuseum Guide (New Program. York, NY) gal- rates the New American Wing Galleries tive arts, principally colonial furniture leries • Theare closed for a two-year expan- sion project that is part of a $64-mil- Arts. The new installation presents the silver include works by John Hull and lion capital campaign that includes historyfor Paintings, of American Sculpture art fromand Decorative the 18th Robertand silver. Sanderson Highlights, Myer of early Myers American, and a 60-percent increase in exhibitions through the early 20th century and Paul Revere. The furniture gallery space, improvements to the National will feature late colonial case furniture Design Library. Events, exhibitions and by John Townsend of Newport and programs will be held at various loca- Wingencompasses renovation 30,000 project square comprises feet. 25 Thomas Affleck tions around the city. This final phase of the American of Philadelphia, and Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./17 of her forms and designs, and the work www.thewadsworth.org on loan from private collectors. Bijoux of successive generations of her family. November 16, 2011–May 6, 2012 delves into the genesis of these natural Costumes, decorative arts and materials and explores the economic American Indian Art paintings illustrate reactions to the and environmental impact of the Denver Art Museum Civil War. Decorative arts from the col- universal attraction to sparkle. Texts Denver, CO lection are incorporated into vignettes explain how gems and minerals are denverartmuseum.org and used to narrate personal stories, extracted and used to create jewelry. Through February 26, 2012; such as a parlor memorial crafted by The exhibition is supported by may continue further Eliza Trask in honor of her husband’s Betteridge Jewelers, the Charles M. The museum’s remodeled galler- safe return. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition ies of American Indian and Northwest Fund, Anne and Fred Elser, and Hank Coast art feature about 700 objects Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of and Meryl Silverstein. from the museum’s collection of Ameri- Jewelry can Indian art of 18,000 artworks, Bruce Museum Delaware ranging from prehistoric to contempo- Greenwich, CT Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of rary, including works on view for the www.brucemuseum.org Southeast Pennsylvania, 1725– Through March 12, 2012 1850 Bijoux investigates the range of Winterthur Texturefirst time. & Tradition: Japanese Woven materials used to make jewelry, from Winterthur, DE Bamboo bones and fossils to feathers and paper, http://winterthur.org Denver Art Museum platinum, diamonds and CZs, with Through January 8, 2012 Denver, CO antique sapphire and diamond jewelry This exhibition explores the denverartmuseum.org Through July 29, 2012

One Voice, bamboo. Mid-1900s. Kosuge Sho- chikudo (1921–2003), Japan; Showa period. Lutz Bamboo Collection; lent by Mona Lutz. The Japanese have woven bamboo for thousands of years. This exhibition showcases more than 70 pieces, includ- ing baskets, trays, containers, accesso- ries, hand warmers, shades, and a chair and screen, including pieces by bas- ketmakers who have been designated Living National Treasures.

Connecticut Colts & Quilts: The Civil War Remembered Wadsworth Atheneum Desk, tulip-poplar, white pine, maple, paint, brass. 1834. Probably Jacob Maser, Mahantongo Val- Hartford, CT ley, Northumberland County, PA. Winterthur Museum, gift of Henry Francis du Pont.

18/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. diverse furniture of southeastern projects commemorating the 50th an- ics by Living National Treasures and niversary of its founding. It includes an contemporary younger artists. The made, owned, inherited and collected introduction to the history of the White Sackler collection represents trends itPennsylvania through nearly and 200 the peopleobjects, who includ - ing furniture, fraktur, needlework and about selected decorative arts objects when traditional workshop masters other items related to the history of the inHouse the exhibition. collection andThe informationbook opens tookin Japanese on new ceramics roles as studiosince the potters 1930s, region. with forewords by Neil Horstman, - Paint, Pattern & People sheds - ters at regional kilns revived ancient new light on distinctive local variations cal Association and Elizabeth Broun, alongside artists in other media. Pot of furniture, presenting rare examples presidentdirector of of the the Smithsonian White House American Histori new vessel forms. In post-war Kyoto, for which the maker or family history is Art Museum. ceramicfiring and artists glazing departed technology from for con use- in known. The exhibition is accompanied ventional ideas of function to create sculptural forms. publication,by an iPod tour, Paint, a film, Pattern special & People: house Ancient Iranian Ceramics tours,Furniture and of an Southeastern illustrated, 304-page Pennsylvania, Smithsonian Institution/Sackler 1725–1850, by Wendy A. Cooper and Gallery Lisa Minardi. Washington, DC The DAS hosts a tour of this exhibi- wwww.si.edu tion in November; see page 1. Closing date in 2012 not yet known

District of Columbia south of the Caspian Sea in what is now “Something of Splendor”: Decorative modern Some Iran, 3,000 craftsmen years ago, developed in the area a Arts from the White House distinctive type of pottery. Featuring Smithsonian American Art Museum/ examples from the museum’s collection Renwick Gallery of ancient Iranian ceramics, this small Washington, DC installation showcases the crafted americanart.si.edu works of these ancient Iranian potters. Through May 6, 2012 This exhibition features 95 objects Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia from the permanent collection of the Armchair, mahogany. 1818. Made by William - King, Jr. (1771–1854), Georgetown, DC. Gift of Smithsonian Institution/Sackler ramics, metals, glass and textiles. Many Mr. and Mrs. John Ford Sollers, Sr. Photo cour- Gallery Whiteof the objectsHouse, includingwere made furniture, by craftsmen ce tesy White House Historical Association. Washington, DC of their time and some have never been wwww.si.edu Wil- Seasons: Tea Through 2012 (new closing date) liam G. Allman, curator of the White Smithsonian Institution/Freer This exhibition of approximately seen outsideMelissa of the White C. Naulin House., assis - Gallery of Art 200 ceramic vessels from Southeast tant curator, selected the works in the Washington, DC Asia explores the migration of pots exhibition.House, and www.si.edu from their makers to their users and Through March 4, 2012 illuminates the dimensions of interna- honor of the 50th anniversary of the To highlight its permanent collec- tional trade that brought southern Chi- White The House exhibition Historical is organized Association in tion, the museum presents Seasons, nese ceramics into mainland Southeast and, with a related publication, in- a series of rotating exhibitions that Asia and from there to distant markets, cludes archival images of the interiors underscores the importance of the from Japan to Turkey. Spanning four - seasons in Chinese and Japanese art millennia, from the prehistoric period cial residence. Objects range from a box to the present, the vessels on view linedthat depict with wallpaper life in the president’sused in the Whiteoffi examples show how tea utensils em- were crafted for rituals, burials, domes- bodyand culture. changes In in this weather. exhibition, a dozen tic use and trade. to a gilded Herter Brothers armchair fromHouse 1875, before a coverlet it was burned embroidered in 1814 Reinventing the Wheel: Japanese brothers Osborne and Victor Hauge by First Lady Grace Coolidge between Ceramics 1930–2000 and Betweentheir wives 1996 Gratia and and2005, Takako the 1925–27 and a service plate from the Smithsonian Institution/Sackler donated more than 800 vessels made Gallery in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and An illustrated catalog, “Something Washington, DC Laos, along with Chinese bowls and 1982of Splendor”: Reagan Decorativestate china. Arts from the wwww.si.edu jars exported to Southeast Asia to the White House, accompanies the exhibi- End date to be determined Sackler. This installation features modern Taking Shape presents the two and contemporary Japanese ceram- basic types of ceramics produced in tion, published by the White House HistoricalFall–Winter Association 2011 as one of several Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./19 Southeast Asia—soft, porous earthen- of media to which Tiffany applied him- Examples include pieces from self over the course of his career. Chicago, a major center of the move- Earthenware continues to be used A parrots window, ca. 1905, was ment in America, with works by Frank toware cool and drinking high-fired water, stoneware. cook rice and Lloyd Wright, the Tobey Furniture - Company and TECO. Charles Hosmer ter for reeling silk. Watertight stone- Wattsdesigned Sherman. for the ANewport, squash transom, RI, vacation ca. Morse, the Chicago industrialist for warecurries jars over store a wood grains, fire, transport and heat goods wa 1879,home ofwas New in the York dining financier room William of George whom the museum is named, reno- for long-distance trade and brew the Kemp’s Fifth Avenue mansion in New rice beer essential for hospitality and York City. Art glass and jeweled metal- home, Osceola Lodge, in the Arts and ceremonies. Craftsvated andstyle redecorated around 1905; his the Winter exhibi Park- picture of Tiffany production. tion includes Craftsman furnishings show the regional diversity of earth- work from the 1920s help fill out the purchased for Osceola Lodge from enware Pieces and from stoneware the Hauge production collection The Virtues of Simplicity—American Gustav Stickley, who began his career throughout time, such as the designs Arts and Crafts from the Morse with Tobey in Chicago. of red-painted earthenware pots from Collection Other highlights include a rare prehistoric Thailand and the forms of Hosmer Morse Museum - Winter Park, FL man canvas, ca. 1910, which has never from 17th- to 19th-century central www.morsemuseum.org beenStickley exhibited appliquéd before, curtain and onmetalware Crafts Vietnam.glazed and unglazed stoneware jars Ongoing and lamps from the Roycrofters and a Taking Shape also illuminates the This exhibition of American Arts number of other American makers that dimensions of international trade that and Crafts furnishings and decora- are not often on view. brought southern Chinese ceramics tive art illustrates the origins of the Kentucky through examples from the Morse A Shining Heritage: Contemporary into mainland Southeast Asia. Glazed- movementcollection, howin Great the ArtsBritain and and Crafts shows, Taiwanese Lacquer Art from the stratestoneware how dishes,the shapes emblazoned and decorations with Wang Family ofblue Chinese or brown ceramics floral inspireddesigns, thedemon addi- especially the Northeast and Midwest. Headley-Whitney Museum tion of painted decorations to table- movement manifested itself in the USA, Lexington, KY ware made in kilns in Vietnam and www.headley-whitney.org Thailand. In turn, such ceramics com- Through November 10, 2011 peted successfully in the international This exhibit features more than 40 trade of the 15th and 16th centuries. pieces of lacquer art from two genera- tions of one family. Objects created by Second Lives: The Age-old Art of Master Wang Ching-Shuang, a Na- Recycling Textiles tional Treasure who began learning the Textile Museum art of lacquer more than 60 years ago Washington, DC during the Japanese colonial period www.textilemuseum.org in Taiwan, and his sons Wang Shien- Through January 8, 2012 Ming and Wang Hsien-Chih include This display uses items like a Japa- wall-hangings, vases and boxes. nese coat woven from rags and a vest Lacquer resin comes from the sap made from a Native American blanket of a tree and is layered over a sub- to demonstrate repurposing. strate. One piece can take a few years to create. Florida Centerpiece, sterling silver. 1899. Goldsmiths Selected Works of Louis Comfort & Silversmiths Company Limited, London, Dr. Andrew Maske and Dr. Cecilia Wang Tiffany from the Morse Collection 1880–1952. Marks: Goldsmiths’/& Silver- helpedUniversity bring this of exhibitionKentucky professorsto the mu- Hosmer Morse Museum smiths’ Company Ltd./112 Regent Street, seum. Winter Park, FL London, W. The exhibit is part of the third an- www.morsemuseum.org nual ArtsAsia Festival. Ongoing reformers looked back to the Medieval in their In Great reaction Britain, against Arts the and industrial Crafts Kentucky Antiques from the Noe Morse have been installed with more age, mass production and Victorian Collection: A Gift to the than The 100 first objects three representing galleries at workthe by excesses. American adherents returned Commonwealth Louis Comfort Tiffany, including 15 to nature, the romantic notion of Speed Art Museum leaded-glass windows and other ex- “the simple life” and functionality for Louisville, KY amples of Tiffany art glass, metalwork, inspiration, and also sought to elevate www.speedmuseum.org lamps and pottery. craftsmanship, use native materials Through February 5, 2012 The works represent the diversity respectfully and attain unity of design.

20/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter Organized of the Decorative geographically, Arts Society, this Inc. exhibition illustrates the breadth and depth of the Noe Collection, highlight- the lives of Kentuckians from 1800– ing artists and artisans that influenced the Noes’ collection of early Kentucky furniture1900 (see range Acquistions). from inlaid Pieces sugar from chests, corner cupboards and bureaus to simple Windsor chairs. Stoneware, silver and samplers—from Maysville to Louisville—round out the exhibition.

Maryland Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift Walters Art Museum Baltimore, MD www.thewalters.org February 12–May 20, 2012 Assembled from the John Bourne collection of art of the ancient Ameri- cas, this exhibition features 129 Board chest with drawer, pine, oak; 33.5” H, 47.5” W, 20.5” D. 1690–1720, possibly Sudbury or Marlborough, MA. From a shop in Middlesex County that produced a distinctive type of joined furniture—board chests with internal posts that extend below the drawer to form the feet; very culturePrecolumbian over more artworks than 2,500 from Mexicoyears in nearly intact in all its elements. Gift to Concord Museum of the Cummings Davis Society, 1995. Mexico,to Peru, Centralorganized America thematically and Andean by Gómez-Ibáñez. The exhibition also 1520. Themes include fundamental explores the favorite objects of Con- an architect. principlesSouth America, such fromas the 1200 feminine BC to origins AD cord residents from the past, including and first began working with glass as of royal power in Mexico, shamanic Thoreau, Alcott and Emerson. All Things Considered VI: National Basketry Organization Biennial A Lighter Hand: The Glass Drawings Juried Exhibition embodiedfoundation by of goldrulership and silver in Costa in Colom Rica - of Michael Janis Fuller Craft Museum and Panama, and cosmic principles Fuller Craft Museum Brockton, MA importance of performance to politics Brockton, MA www.fullercraft.org andbia and religion Peru. throughout Other works the explore ancient the www.fullercraft.org Through December 4, 2011 Americas. Through November 6, 2011 This show began as the National The exhibition travels to the Albu- This exhibition features the recent Basketry Organization querque Museum of Art & History work of Washington, DC-based its biennial conference in August and (NM), June 10–August 26, 2012. Michael Janis, who was recently (NBO) held named a Fulbright Scholar. Janis’s Massachusetts work is the result of a laborious and features 32 pieces by invited artists Crowdsourcing a Collection challenging process that is similar to exhibitionand 16 pieces jurors. by NBO Featuring instructors, both con in - Concord Museum scrafftio, where a design is scratched temporaryaddition to and37 juried traditional works methods, selected Allby Concord, MA through a colored ground revealing Things Considered VI represents the www.concordmuseum.org another color beneath. October 22, 2011–March 11, 2012 To produce the image, Janis sifts a survey of the methods, materials and In honor of the Concord Museum’s black glass powder onto sheet glass, intentscurrent offield contemporary of basketry andbasketmakers. provides 125th anniversary of its establishment scraping away the powder to produce The show is curated by Ann in 1886, this exhibition offers new - McMullen, curator and head of Collec- perspectives on its collection. Each guest curator for Crowdsourcing a inthe a detail.kiln to He fuse suspends the constituent the image pieces be the National Museum of the Ameri- Collection selected an object from the together.tween layers Any ofnumber sheet glass of images and fires can beit tionscan Indian Research, Smithsonian and Documentation Institution at museum’s holdings that has special combined to produce complex juxtapo- (Washington, DC), and Bruce Pepich, meaning and explains the personal sitions. The result of this process is a executive director and curator of Col- collage produced entirely in glass. lections, Racine Art Museum or video. Janis layers objects and characters. WI). significanceIncluded of is the craftsman selections and in North writing This show includes the largest(RAM; Miguel at the Washington (DC) Glass School number of Native American baskets of He is co-director of and an instructor BennetFall–Winter Street 2011 School president Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./21 Brookfield Craft - the basketmakers are represented in Center Folk Art Cen- any NBO exhibition to date. Many of ter(Baltimore, of the SHCG MD), the - Decemberretreated after 29, Canadian the abortive militia 1837 board Up - sity of Massachusetts, (Brookfield, CT), and Dartmouth edper the Canadian Caroline Rebellion., killed one On of the her night crew of the collection of the RAM. (Ashville, NC), Univer and destroyed the ship by sending it over Niagara Falls. Why Crafts created MA;(New New Bedford, York, MA),NY; Chicago, and two IL shows (SOFA); of the jug is still unknown. andBritish St. Louis.jewelry that traveled to Boston, Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture Curators’ Choice: A New Look at Old Museum of Fine Arts-Boston Objects Boston, MA Historic Deerfield www.mfa.org Deerfield, MA Through March 4, 2012 www.historic-deerfield.org Despite Ellsworth Kelly Through February 5, 2012 sculptures have being the subject of More than 20 pieces from Historic major retrospectives worldwide,’s 30 this wood is Deerfield’s decorative arts collection Basket. Elizabeth Whyte Schulze. Tokyo of more than 27,000 objects, includ- the essential forms of his wood sculp- Dolls2. 2010. ing furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, tures.the first The museum exhibition exhibition features to a focus selec -on silver, base metals, prints, paintings tion of works across a span of almost Fresh Figurines: A New Look at a and textiles, from favorites and over- Historic Art form looked gems to recent acquisitions Fuller Craft Museum Kelly40 years has andused reflects to create the his wide freestand variety- Fuller Craft Museum include a gown that was worn for three ingof woods, sculptures from and birch wall to reliefs.zebra, that Brockton, MA weddingsand objects, in arethe Hopkins-Worthington-on display. Highlights The exhibition, presented in the Through February 5, 2012 Dwight families between 1759 and Henry and Lois Foster Gallery (4,700 Fresh Figurines presents the con- 1824; a rare map created by Herman - Moll wood sculptures made by by Kelly, an tive ceramics, with artists who work in Richardson Miner of Stratford, CT, alumnussquare feet), of the showcases School of 19 the of Museumthe 30 ceramicstinually evolving today exploring traditions form, of figura scale, c. 1760;, ca. and 1735; a thrown a tall case and clock scratch- by of Fine Arts (SMFA), over his lifetime. the body as object and the symbolic decorated jug made by Thomas Crafts implications of the human form. (1781–1861) of Whately, MA. Embroideries of Colonial Boston: - The jug’s decoration, which runs Domestic Embroideries pean paste and Chinese export porce- around its shoulders, depicts a fort Museum of Fine Arts-Boston lain Theto the ceramic modern figurine, retail collectible, from Euro Boston, MA conjures images of Victorian fancy and rowboats have been launched, full of www.mfa.org kitsch. This exhibition presents more flying the British flag from which four Through June 3, 2012 than 50 works by 40 contemporary anchored steamship inscribed Caro- The embroideries of colonial American artists or collaborative pairs. linamen; thewith ship firearms has her heading crew on toward deck, ana The diverse and sometimes irreverent bellowing smoke stack and a 28-star works address contemporary issues theirBoston role girls within and womencolonial reveal society. much This and riff on the history of craft, art and isabout the thirdthe lives in a ofseries Boston of three women exhibi and- mass production. aAmerican waterfall flag and flying a small from domed the bow; island. to tions that focuses on the embroideries The exhibition explores current re- the leftPeter of theHeslip ship are fish in the water, - sponses of these contemporary artists College, studied the jug during his dered furnishing textiles and fash- participation in the, a Historicstudent from Deerfield Bates ionableof colonial accessories, Boston and examining features howembroi New England artists include Megan Summer Fellowship Program, and Bogonovichto the practice of figurative sculpture.Cynthia discovered that Crafts simply mis- the needlework skills they learned in Consentino (Northampton, MA), Paul spelled the name of the ship (it should theirBoston’s classes women to decorate and young their ladies homes used McMullan (Concord, NH),Susan Schulz have been the Caroline). and keep up with fashion. (Stonington, CT) and Mara Superior - (Williamsburg, (Keene, MA). NH), memorates the attack on the Ameri- Jewels, Gems and Treasures: Ancient Gail M. Brown can steamship Heslip found Caroline that the by jug Canadian com to Modern the show, is an independent curator militiamen while the ship was lying at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston who trained as a printmaker, who organized at the Boston, MA Philadelphia College of Art and has Caroline transported www.mfa.org been watching the contemporary crafts portprovisions in the andNiagara recruits River to on Navy December Island Through November 25, 2011 movement since the early 1970s. She 29, 1837. The has curated exhibitions for NCECA were acquired in the early 1900s from where William MacKenzie’s Canadian About 75 pieces, a dozen of which rebels and American sympathizers had 22/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. archeological expeditions to Egypt Duncan Phyfe, the Thonet Brothers, and the Sudan, are on display in a accompanying book argue that exam- Samuel Gragg, Bradley & Hubbard, new gallery dedicated to jewelry, with iningduction the to images the field. on TheChristmas exhibition cards and and George Hunzinger; silver objects by Tiffany & Company, Gorham Man- 19th century to the end of the 1950s ufacturing, and Napier (in particular, updated labels reflecting new research. enrichesused in the the United understanding States from of notthe late designs by Christopher Dresser and staff,One piece is now from thought about to 3,000 be a pendant.years ago, only the American Christmas but also Elsa Tannhardt previouslyThe exhibition assumed examines to be a finial the rolesfor a aspects of American culture. French clock garniture manufactured and meanings associated with a wide The exhibition presents 20 of the by Guilmet. ); and a five-piece range of gem materials. Drawn from most prominent classes of Christ- the MFA’s collection and select loans, mas card imagery and introduces the Founders of American Studio Glass: viewer to a few other categories of Harvey K. Littleton Nubian conch shell amulet to Mary cards determined by form or purpose. Dominick Labino Toddthese Lincoln’srange from 19th-century a 24th-century diamond BC American Christmas Cards, 1900– Corning Museum of Glass and gold suite, to a 20th-century plati- 1960, edited by Kenneth L. Ames, is a Corning, NY - www.cmog.org mas cards. Each chapter is devoted to November 17, 2011–January 6, 2013 “doughboys”num, diamond, in rubyWorld and War sapphire I. flag akind single of field class guide of card to andAmerican includes Christ im- In 1962, two workshops led by broochA catalog, honoring Artful the Adornments:sacrifices of the ages, a timeline and commentary. The artist Harvey K. Littleton and glass Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, scientist Dominick Labino introduced Boston, is by Yvonne J. Markowitz. cards as a whole. artists to the material of glass as a me- conclusion summarizes patterns in the dium for artistic expression. Littleton Breguet Watches 19th-Century Modern and Labino presented their develop- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Brooklyn Museum ment of a small, portable furnace Boston, MA Brooklyn, NY and low-temperature melting-point www.mfa.org www.brooklynmuseum.org glass, giving artists access to glass and Through December 10, 2011 Through April 1, 2012 Four watches from the Breguet time. These workshops kickstarted Museum theglassblowing American techniquesStudio Glass for movement, the first more than 100 timepieces and items - related to (Paris,the history France), of the which Breg houses- er and maker, with a focus on making uet Watch Company, previously on one-of-a-kindwhich emphasized objects. the artist as design display at the J. Paul Getty Museum The museum celebrates the 50th (Los Angeles, CA) in connection with anniversary of the American Studio the Paris: Life and Luxury exhibition, Glass movement with these comple- Five-Piece Clock Garniture, silvered bronze. mentary exhibitions and works by each 1700s. ca. 1885. 9.25 x 4.5 x 4.5 in. (23.5 x 11.4 x artist, spanning Littleton’s career from represent the luxury of Paris in the late 11.4 cm). Guilmet Cie (active 1861–1910). Minnesota Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Marcus S. Fried- through his experiments with form Conversations with Wood: Selections lander, by exchange, 2009. andhis first color works into thein glass 1980s from and the materi 1940s- from the Waterbury Collection Featuring more than 40 items from als from Labino’s archives, which are Minneapolis Institute of Art the Brooklyn Museum’s collection held in the collection of the museum’s Minneapolis, MN of American and European decorative Rakow Research Library. www.artsmia.org arts, 19th-Century Modern focuses on With Littleton’s encouragement Through September 4, 2011 the emergence of Modernism, a design and promotion, glass programs sprang This exhibit explores the evolution esthetic based in part on the machine up at universities, art schools and sum- of wood art through about 80 pieces col- as a source of artistic inspiration. mer programs across the country dur- lected by David and Ruth Waterbury. “Modern design” suggests the ing the late 1960s and early 1970s, and simple lines, abstract decoration, and the Studio Glass movement became an New York machine-based methods and materials international phenomenon. American Christmas Cards, 1900– of the 20th century. The museum has been collecting 1960 Littleton’s work since the mid 1960s, Bard Graduate Center: Decora- in how objects were produced and through both acquisitions and dona- tive Arts, Design History, marketed, This period as well marked as how modifications they looked. tions, including those from Littleton Material Culture The installation features objects and his family. Founders of American Through December 31, 2011 dating from the early 19th century, Studio Glass: Harvey K. Littleton This exhibition studies the images when the trend toward Modernism includes 19 vessels and sculptures and on American Christmas cards of the began, to the 20th century, includ- 20th century and serves as an intro- ing furniture by John Henry Belter, and the artist’s collection. five vitreographs from the museum’s Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./23 an artistic medium. On his farm near

studio, where he designed and built his ownGrand furnaces, Rapids, OH,annealing he set ovens,up his glassown -

and created a laboratory for testing the blowing tools and finishing equipment, own glass compositions unique colors thatproperties he used of in glass. his work. He formulated his The exhibition documents Labino’s legacy through letters, drawings, pho- tographs, patents and other materials, with a focus on his role in the 1962 Toledo workshops with Littleton, and includes his 1980 sculpture, Emer- gence.

Masters of Studio Glass: Erwin Eisch Corning Museum of Glass Corning, NY www.cmog.org Gold and Green Implied Movement, Harvey K. March 15, 2012–February 3, 2013 Littleton (American, b. 1922) (left). Emergence, This exhibition features iconic Dominick Labino, 1980 (above). sculptures and vessels by Erwin Eisch, - Littleton was born and raised in velopment of American and European prints that Littleton made with his studiowho had glass. a strong influence on the de the Corning Glass Works in the 1940s, printing-on-glassTrial II is one of the technique. first successful whereCorning, he and developed was briefly his glassmaking employed by Littleton continued to make his Making Ideas: Experiments in Design skills and began to pursue the idea of vitreographs and invite other artists to at GlassLab glass as a medium for artistic expres- make them through the 1990s. Corning Museum of Glass sion. In the late 1970s, Littleton began Corning, NY The earliest objects in the exhibi- creating the works that would become www.cmog.org tion are two experimental cast female his best-known—long, twisted and May 19, 2012–January 6, 2013 torsos, dating to 1942 and 1946, which bent sculptures made of thick, solid Making Ideas honors the spirit tubes of clear glass enclosing layers of freedom and experimentation with Littleton while working at Corning Glassare the Works. first works Glass invessels glass aremade from by the Sliced Descending Form. early years of the American Studio early 1960s, after the seminal Toledo of color,The suchlatest as sculpture the 1984 in Red/Amber the exhibi- Glassartistic movement, process that with characterized a focus on new the Workshops, and a bottle at the 1962 tion, Gold and Green Implied Move- glass design and the GlassLab program workshop is a recent gift from the of the Corning Museum of Glass. Littleton family. decrease in hot-shop activity for Little- At the end of the 1960s, Littleton ton.ment The from long, 1987, thin, reflects cased theforms gradual of the The Making of a Collection: Collectors decided to turn away from the vessel Implied Movement and Lyrical Move- of Islamic Art and the Metropoli- in favor of sculptural work based on ment series were easier to manipulate, tan Museum of Art a vocabulary of geometric forms. The but still required him to move quickly Metropolitan Museum of Art exploration of columns and tubes, color with the hot glass. New York, NY and motion in glass occupied him for Founders of American Studio www.metmuseum.org the rest of his career. The 1969 sculp- Glass: Dominick Labino explores November 1, 2011–Spring 2012 Labino’s impact on glass technology, This exhibition considers the fac- In the 1970s, Littleton began stud- education and art. tors that directed and inspired major ture,ies in Eye, printing reflects on glassthis new plates, direction. a new donor-collectors, whose gifts form the concept that he called vitreography. research scientist, holding more than core of the collection of the museum’s Labino was a prolific inventor and Department of Islamic Art. it occurred to him that the strength of - glassHaving under tried compression sandblasting made plate itglass, ideal 60ing patents classes inat thecolleges United and States universities over his Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker lifetime.and consulted He helped on their set upstudio glassblow planning. in New York sandblasted plates and ran it through The year after the Toledo workshops, Metropolitan Museum of Art for printmaking. He inked one of the he also began to work with hot glass as New York, NY

the etching press. The first plate broke. 24/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. www.metmuseum.org chess pieces or why they were hidden. posed to the modern convention of December 20, 2011–May 6, 2012 They may have belonged to a merchant black and white. travelling from Norway to Ireland, Duncan since there are constituent pieces, 11 are in Edinburgh at the National Phyfe Referred (1768–1854) to during remains his lifetime America’s although with some elements missing, Museum Of the of 93 Scotland pieces knownand 82 today,are in the asbest-known the “United cabinetmaker. States Rage,” The exhi- for four distinct sets. Their general bition covers the full chronological condition is excellent and they do not seem to have been used very much. PicassoBritish Museum. to Koons: Artist as Jeweler his earliest and best-known furniture Museum of Arts and Design basedsweep onof Phyfe’sthe published career designsand includes of chess was a popular game among the New York, NY Thomas Sheraton, as well as work aristocracy By the end throughout of the 11th Europe. century, The www.madmuseum.org from the middle and later stages of his Lewis chess pieces form the largest Through January 8, 2012 career, when he adopted the “archaeo- single surviving group of objects from The little-known works of wear- logical” antique style of the 1820s and the period that were made purely for able sculpture in this exhibition pro- recreational purposes. vide insights into the works of Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, a refined,The exhibition plain Grecian is made style possible based on Louise Nevelson, Anthony Caro, Yoko byFrench Karen Restoration H. Bechtel prototypes. with additional Ono and Anish Kapoor support from the Henry Luce Foun- collaboration with guest curator Diane dation, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Cushman, Venet, editor of and contributor. Organized to the in the Americana Foundation, Robert 2008 catalog Bijoux Sculptures, Picasso L. Froelich, and Philip Holzer. It was to Koons Museum of Fine drawn from the holdings of collectors, Arts, Houston and is accompanied by artists and features artist estates. works by 135 artists aorganized catalog. with the A former radio and television - The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory ested in artist-made jewelry when her Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis then-beau,journalist, Venetsculptor first Bernar became Venet inter, Metropolitan Museum of Art/ rolled a thin piece of silver around her Cloisters Museum and Gardens New York, NY then, she has acquired jewels made by www.metmuseum.org herfinger husband’s to form acolleagues, wedding ring. including Since November 15, 2011–April 22, 2012 Arman, César, Mimmo Rotella and Villéglé, and has commissioned pieces including more than 70 chess pieces by Kader Attia, John Chamberlain, and Inseveral 1831, other a hoard objects, of luxury all made goods— of Wim Delvoye, Orlan and Frank Stella. carved walrus ivory and dating from Many of these wearable sculptures the 12th century—was unearthed on are crafted out of precious materials. Chess Piece in the Form of a Queen, walrus the Isle of Lewis off the west coast of ivory; H. 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm). ca. 1150–1200. They often have been conceived for Scotland. The chess pieces (thereafter Scandinavian, probably Norway, found on Isle a lover or a family member or friend. known as the Lewis Chessmen) come of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 1831. Items are in three groupings—Early from at least four distinct, but incom- British Museum, London. - plete, sets, and are among the icons of When Sir Frederic Madden tion—with sections devoted to the the collections of the British Museum - Masters, Representational and Abstrac (London, England) and National sidered the pieces to be Icelandic first in words, geometry, and new technologies Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh). publishedorigin. Other the authorities finds in 1832, have he thought con andhuman materials. figure, nature, Pop subjects, them to be Irish, Scottish or English. Picasso to Koons is accompanied made of walrus ivory and whales’ The chessmen are northern in charac- by an illustrated, 240-page catalog, teeth The in themore forms than of 30 seated chessmen kings are and published by Flammarion/Rizzoli, queens, mitred bishops, knights on culture, most evident in the warders with essays by Adrien Goetz and Bar- their mounts, standing warders, and orter rooks, and strongly which areinfluenced in the form by Norse of bara Rose. pawns in the shape of obelisks. directly from the Sagas. Korean Eye: Energy and Matter on the Isle of Lewis in mysterious Berserkers,A board mythical large enough warriors to hold drawn all Museum of Arts and Design circumstances, The pieces somewere foundtime before near Uig April the pieces arranged for a game played New York, NY to modern rules would have measured www.madmuseum.org Edinburgh at the Society of Antiquaries 82 cm across. Some of the chessmen November 1, 2011–February 19, 2012 for11, Scotland.1831, when they were exhibited in were stained red, so the chessboard This is the third in the Korean Eye It is not known who owned the may have been red and white, as op- series, established by Parallel Con-

Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./25 temporary Art (founded by David The period immediately after ment for the Arts, Henry Luce Foun- and Serenella Ciclitira) and Standard dation, and Center for Craft, Creativ- Chartered Bank in 2009 to spotlight mass production; the handmade object ity and Design, with major support for new work by contemporary Korean World War II was characterized by the catalog by the Windgate Chari- artists. The exhibition includes embroi- the machine esthetic. The exhibition table Foundation. dery and acrylic paintings by Young looksoffered at a the humanizing connections counterpoint between craft to In Hong; a large shark fabricated from and the design world through the work Flora and Fauna, MAD about Nature reclaimed and repurposed automobile of textile designer Dorothy Liebes, Museum of Arts and Design tires by Yong Ho Ji; and Meekyoung furniture-maker George Nakashima, New York, NY Shin’s “antique” porcelain vases, ren- silversmith Jack Prip, and sculptor and www.madmuseum.org dered in soap. designer Isamu Noguchi, among oth- Through November 6, 2011 Korean Eye: Energy and Matter ers, and examines designers who incor- This exhibition looks at how art- porated craft techniques or esthetics ists celebrate nature, from insects and Korean Eye: Contemporary Korean into more widescale production, such Artis accompanied, edited by Serenella by a 389-page Ciclitira book, and as Edith Heath and Ray and Charles life, in a variety of media, including published by SKIRA, that showcases a Eames. birds to flowers and trees, and aquatic collection of work by 75 contemporary Crafting Modernism follows the Korean artists and features artist biog- growth and transformation of Ameri- ceramic, glass, fiber, metal and wood. raphies and statements. can life through the 1960s. As craft After its inaugural display in New programs developed and expanded in York, the exhibition travels to Abu university art departments across the Dhabi. Peter Voulkos and Lenore Tawney increas- Crafting Modernism: Midcentury Unitedingly began States, to artistsconsider such the as sculptural American Art and Design and esthetic qualities of their materi- Museum of Arts and Design als, previously reserved for functional New York, NY objects. This development paralleled www.madmuseum.org an increasing openness in the art world Through January 15, 2012 to new expressions and alternative media, as demonstrated in the works of artists such as Claire Falkenstein and Alexander Calder. As craft entered the public realm Wall construction, Christopher Wade Adams, through museum exhibitions and 2008. Gift of Christopher Wade Adams, Paul publications, it added to the ongoing Aferiat and Peter Stamberg, 2009. political and social dialog in American The exhibition of 126 artworks is art and life, serving as a representative drawn from the Museum of Arts and of a counter-culture lifestyle. Artists in Design collection, with promised gifts the exhibition include Wendell Castle, and loans. The Fauna section features Jack Lenor Larsen and Sheila Hicks, depictions of creatures large and small: as well as lesser-known artists from Paul Villinski before exhibited, has the frame of a Neckpiece. Arthur Smith, 1948. Purchased by wooden glider’s engulfed Passage by (Study), a cloud never of the American Craft Council, 1967. around the country now recognized Yves Klein Steffan Crafting Modernism explores the furniture-maker John Kapel, jeweler Ernestas influential Ziegfeld in their, Asian-Americans fields, including Ka Dam’s Marine Group consists of bio- interplay of art and design in all craft -blue butterflies; Kwong Hui and Margaret Choy, and morphic forms in simulated specimen Native Americans Ron Senungetuk jars made of cast glass. Other artists and alternative materials) during the include Pedro Friedeberg, Sherry media (clay, fiber, wood, metal, glass and Lloyd Kiva New. postwar era. The exhibition and catalog Markovitz, Preston Singletary, Lino focus on the protagonists of this pe- This is the fourth in a series of ex- hibitions on craft in the 20th century. A Tagliapietra and Jennifer Trask. riod, its rapid growth and development The Flora section features art- within a changing American culture, Harry and its international context. N. Abrams, contains more than 200 388-pageillustrations, catalog, essays, published biographies by and landscape: Beth Katleman’s Folly Crafting Modernism covers a 25- works inspired by plants, flowers and extended reference materials. consists of 50 white porcelain tab- year period that begins with the crafts- leaux, hung in relief against a turquoise man-designers of the 1940s and 1950s, Crafting Modernism travels to the Memorial Art Gallery wall—three-dimensional “wallpaper,” and concludes in 1969 with works that inspired by 18th-century toile de jouy upended traditional concepts of craft from February 26–May 20, 2012. (Rochester, NY) patterns, that combines landscape and included humor, psychological Crafting Modernism is made possible content and social commentary. in part through the National Endow- elements with creatures cast from flea- 26/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. market souvenirs; Japanese designer furniture and decorative objects made craft after immigrating to New York Hiroki Takada’s Orchid Lamp, a recent in New York from the colonial era to City in 1861. acquisition, was inspired by the forms the dawn of the 20th century. Lycett’s early career included a of ikebana and “arranges” nature and These elements of New York - technology. Other artists include Jack domestic environments from the late ditional pieces of the Lincoln adminis- Lenor Larsen, Ted Muehling, Shen 17th through early 20th centuries Whitetration’s House porcelain commission dinner toservice paint for ad Shaomin, Paul Stankard and Tapio illuminate aspects of daily life, includ- Wirkkala. ing recreational pursuits and various held teaching positions in St. Louis, MO, domestic technologies. President Andrew Johnson; he also The American Style: Colonial Revival In 1884, Lycett experimented with and the Modern Metropolis North Carolina and Cincinnati, OH. - Museum of the City of New York “Our Spirited Ancestors”: The vised a team of artists, including James New York, NY Decorative Art of Drink ceramic bodies and glazes. He super - www.mcny.org Museum of Early Southern Through October 30, 2011 Decorative Arts vesselsCallowhill with of exoticthe English motives firm in Worces vibrant The American Style brings to- Winston-Salem, NC huester Royal and Porcelain,costly gold who‐paste. decorated Lycett and gether furniture, decorative objects www.mesda.org his team of decorators produced pieces and photographs to survey the Colonial October 25, 2011–September 2012 that were sold in jewelry and china From imported Madeira sipped and beyond, in the realms of architec- at mahogany tables to local whisky such as Tiffany & Company in New tureRevival and movement design. The in exhibitionNew York coversCity sipped from redware jugs, an early Yorkshops and throughout Bailey, Banks the United and Biddle States, in the period from the 1890s to the pres- Southerner drank nearly 20 gallons of ent, focusing especially on 1900 to the More than 40 objects from public glasses and cellarets were as important Philadelphia.and private collections are on view, Among the works on display are asalcohol what annually.they contained. Bottles, This jugs, exhibit cups, with plaques, plates, ewers, vases and 1930s. explores the furniture, silver, ceram- decorative wares illustrating Lycett’s Val-Kill Industries, an idealistic fac- ics and glassware used by those early adaptability to stylistic change over half-a-dozen peices of pottery from Southerners. the course of his nearly 50‐year career, The exhibition draws from the accompanied by his formula books, tory created by Eleanor RooseveltNew York at Museum of Early Southern Decora- family photographs and ephemera. theTimes cottage, “she onand the a few family female estate friends in Hyde tive Arts collection, as well as museum Park,supervised NY. As workshops noted in the there for a and private collections throughout the southeast. Objects include an early and weavers.” 19th-century redware liquor jug from dozenAn cabinetmakers, illustrated companion pewtersmiths book, east Tennessee inscribed “true blue”; written by the co-curators, is co-pub- a 1720s silver mug owned in Charles- lished by the museum and the Mona- ton, SC; and a 1720s stoneware mug celli Press. brought to Georgia by one of its earliest settlers. An online version of this exhibit is at MESDA.org.

Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Company Mint Museum Randolph Charlotte, NC www.mintmuseum.org Coffee service for 12 with salver, gold. Manu- factured by Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham, Inc., Through February 26, 2012 Covered Vase 37, cream-colored earthen- 1936. Bequest of Percy L. Hance. Photo by During the 1880s, the Faience ware. Created 1886–90. 17 ½ in. H. Edward John Parnell. Manufacturing Company (1881–92) Lycett. Manufacturer, Faience Manufacturing Company. Private collection. New York Interiors: Furnishings for high-quality ornamental ceramics that the Empire City (1690–1906) (Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY) produced circulated by the University of Rich- The exhibition is organized and Museum of the City of New York mond Museums (VA). An illustrated New York, NY Aestheticsynthesized Movement Japanese, style. Chinese and catalog features an essay by curator www.mcny.org Islamic influences characteristic of the Barbara Veith, independent scholar Ongoing commercial success to Edward Lycett of American ceramics and glass (New New York Interiors features The firm owed its artistic and York).

Fall–Winter 2011 (1833–1910), having practiced his Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc./27 Pennsylvania lofted connectors, while a table made seums and private collections around Inventing the Modern World: of polished aluminum appears to hover the world, the exhibition includes Decorative Arts at the World’s paintings, sculpture, applied arts, Fairs, 1851–1939 Some works are disguised as drawings, metalwork, furniture, archi- Carnegie Museum of Art closemicro-architecture, to the floor. such as the Coffee Pittsburgh, PA & Tea Set (1997). Others, including - www.cmoa.org WMF Flatware and Crevasse Vases, are tecturalments, clocks fittings, and lighting watches, and textiles hearth and October 13, 2012–February 24, 2013 more transparent in function. fixtures,clothing, scientificbooks, and and maps. musical instru Inventing the Modern World ex- Among the highlights are a collec- The exhibition gives a glimpse into plores the decorative arts displayed at tion of Swarovski crystal-encrusted daily correspondence and business international expositions and world’s necklaces and bracelets; and shoes affairs, with furniture and accessories fairs, from London’s Great Exhibition made for Lacoste and Melissa. related to writing, record-keeping and of the Works of Industry of All Nations The exhibition is made possible by - in 1851 to the New York World’s Fair of Lisa Roberts and David Seltzer, with additional support from the Graham bureaux,document in filing. their Financiershomes (forerun and mer- The exhibition includes works Foundation for Advanced Studies in chants often worked in offices, called made1939. by a variety of international arti- the Fine Arts and Collab. typically set apart from the domestic sans and manufacturers, ranging from sphere.ners to the modern home office) but The interior shown in the almost Texas cabinet to a streamlined glass chair Gabriel a monumental 1850s Gothic Revival Life & Luxury: The Art of Living in Bernard de Rieux (1687–1745) by Eighteenth-Century Paris objects in glass, silver and porcelain by Maurice-Quentinlife-size pastel portrait de la of Tour is evoked Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Baccaratfrom 1939,, Tiffany to pieces, Gorham of jewelry, Cartier and , by the adjacent display of similar Houston, TX Sèvres and Herman Miller. Many ob- galerie explores mfah.org the act of collecting. Through December 11, 2011 - objects, and a Parisian This exhibition recreates a day in jectstrated are catalog exhibited co-published in the United with States Skira main meal was customarily consumed the life of fashionable 18th-century forRizzoli the first, accompanies time. A full-color, the exhibition. illus at midday; In mid-18th-century a section of the Paris, exhibition the - Inventing the Modern World is considers the portrayal of the ingre- dients of the meal made under the Jason T. Busch, cura- Parisians and premieres a private col glass. The exhibition follows the con- direction of the artist Jean-Baptiste torial chair for Collections and Alan G. lection of Czech avant-garde art and co-organizedand Jane A. Lehman by Curator of Decora- Oudry (1686–1755), including a pair dressing, writing, collecting, eating and tive Arts and Design, and Catherine L. of wool and silk tapestries portraying eveningventional entertainment. activities in a ParisianThe exhibition day— Futter picnickers and hunters; his engraved premiered at the J. Paul Getty illustration, featuring a lavishly set Museum (Los Angeles, CA). the Nelson-Atkins, Helen Jane andMuseum R. Hugh of “Pat”Art. Uhlmann Curator of Decorative Arts at Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion oftable, Jean for de the La taleFontaine’s of “The animal City Rat fables; and Philadelphia Museum of Art andthe Country the Machine Rat” d’Argent,in the 1755 a still-life edition Philadelphia, PA sculpture in silver, by François-Thom- Through March 25, 2012 as Germain under Oudry’s direction. Zaha Hadid, founding director of Zaha Hadid Architects harpsichord of 1754 from the Metro- - politanThe installation Museum also of Artincludes (New a York, Parisian and the first NY), with both its original sound box geometrieswoman to receive and uses the digital Pritzker design Archi and and original lacquered surface decora- fabricationtecture Prize technologies. (in 2004), explores On display fluid are tion of chinoiserie motifs. examples of the furniture, objects and - footwear she has designed in recent tion is devoted to private prayer, with years. On November 19, she receives a marquetry-veneered The final section of prie-dieu, the exhibi or the Design Excellence Award from Mechanical Reading, Writing and Toilette kneeler, by cabinetmaker Jean-Bap- Collab. Table (open), oak veneered with kingwood, tiste Tuart (1741), which also func- Sofas, tables and chairs are made amaranth, bloodwood, holly, and various tioned as a writing desk and storage of materials ranging from steel and stained exotic woods; drawers of juniper; cabinet (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, aluminum to polyurethane; jewelry, iron mechanism; silk; gilt-bronze mounts. ca. - shoes and tableware represent the 1750. Jean-François Oeben, French, 1721–83. ed missal. The combined functionality - J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Paris); a crucifix; and a hand-illuminat- duced into the language of design. The - sian design and craft responded to the Mesawide varietyTable is of supported shapes Hadid by branching, has intro jects, roughly half on loan from 26 mu- ofmultilayered the prie-dieu needs illustrates of clients. how Pari Bringing together some 160 ob

28/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. A hardcover, 164-page book Paris: as design template for installing the elected president in December 1989. Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Cen- exhibition. Many of the artists introduced to tury, is published by the J. Paul Getty - Museum and features contributions by Rienzi ism in 1989 are represented in the Charissa Bremer-David, Peter Björn AmericanCullen collection, audiences including by Czech Toyen Modern, Kerber, Mimi Hellman, Joan DeJean Josef Šíma, Karel Teige and Jindrich and Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell. an art Rienzi collection, is the centerstately forhouse European and gar - Štyrsk. New Formations also high- The chapters move chronologically decorative arts at MFAH. Comprising lights the Skupina 42 (Group 42) from morning to night against the by arts patrons Carroll Sterling Mas- artists (František Hudeček, Bohumír background of the reign of Louis XV. tersondens, Rienzi and Harriswas given Masterson to the museum III. The Matal and Alois Wachsman, among residence is named for Masterson’s others), whose work captures the spirit English Taste: The Art of Dining in grandfather, Rienzi Johnston. John of World War II. the Eighteenth Century F. Staub, the architect who designed The title New Formations is taken Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Bayou Bend Houston, TX manifesto, published in 1927–28 by mfah.org New Formations:, designed Czech Rienzi Avant-Garde in 1952. Štyrskfrom the and Artificielismus Toyen. (Artificialism) Through January 29, 2012 Art and Modern Glass from the New Formations concludes with Rienzi, the center for European Roy and Mary Cullen Collection decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Museum of Fine Arts-Houston selected from the Cullen collection by Arts, Houston Houston, TX scholar30 examples Jan Mergl of Czech. The modern collection glass, pro - 18th-century English dining experi- mfah.org ence with English (MFAH), Taste: re-creates The Art of November 6, 2011–February 5, 2012 - Dining in the Eighteenth Century, the This exhibition sheds light on a videsing a periodan overview of swift of transformation Czech glass from still little-known chapter of 20th-cen- 1900 to the end of the 1930s, showcas- English Taste displays a dining-room ism. first special exhibition ever held there. - fromFor Art information Nouveau to aboutCzech aFunctional related country house, featuring recreations tontury philanthropists art through more Roy than and 150 Mary Czech symposium, see Events. ofextravaganza foods from typicalthe period of a cookbook1760s English by Cullenavant-garde works amassed by Hous Accompanying the exhibition Surrealism; rare artists’ books and The exhibition features pieces avant-garde, including periodicals; examples and from molded Czech documenting the Cullen Collection, Mrs. Elizabeth Raffald. and blown modern glass. The exhibi- co-publishedis a 320-page, by hardcover Yale University catalog Press silver and glass, including the re- tion is curated by art historians Karel centlyfrom Rienzi’s acquired collection Sackville of ceramics, Srp of the Prague Municipal Gal- porcelain pieces from the Möllendorff lery and independent scholar Lenka and Mergl;the MFAH, an extended with an introduction interview with Service, said to be designed épergne by Freder and- Bydžovská. theby Greene; Cullens; essays and previously from Srp, untransBydžovská- ick the Great. lated artists‘ writings from this era of The exhibition features period the avant-garde. collection given through the years by Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Dr.silver, George including S. Heyer pieces and from a pair the of MFAH wine Ceramics: The Garth Clark and coolers by 18th-century English silver- Mark Del Vecchio Collection smith Paul de Lamerie, on loan from Museum of Fine Arts-Houston the Cahn Collection. Houston, TX English Taste focuses on the mfah.org second and main dinner course, as dic- March 4–June 3, 2012 No details were available at press- Ivan Day time. createstated by the Raffald. meal Englishof faux food.food Althoughhistorian this is a recreation, borrowing of Raffald’san English recipes, set- Virginia ting, it is not all that different from Our Community Collects: From Dürer what Americans were doing at the to Warhol and Beyond same time. Chrysler Museum of Art The Experienced English Vase, glass. 1908. Manufactured by Norfolk, VA Housekeeper, published in 1769 and Johann Lötz Witwe, Kláštersk•• Ml••n Through December 31, 2011 (Klostermühle), Bohemia. Collection of Roy Raffald’s This chronological survey fea- and Mary Cullen. experience as a cook and housekeeper tures more than 160 works of art from - instill confectionery in print today, shops reflects and her estates years of nearly 40 private collectors across the The Cullens had first-hand experi - “Directions for a Grand Table,” serves ence of the Velvet Revolution: They north of England. Raffald’s illustration, Hampton Roads area, including decora were in Prague when Vaclav Havel was Fall–Winter 2011 Newslettertive arts of theworks Decorative in glass, suchArts Society,as a fleet Inc./ 29 of Endeavor “boats” by the Venetian www.museumofglass.org “decay,” that suggest the lifecycle of glass maestro Lino Tagliapietra. November 12, 2011–June 17, 2012 growing things. Our Community Collects is made Stankard implemented a technique possible through the Signature Finan- he calls “cloistering,” in which he lami- cial Management and the collectors whose art is on view. effectnates ain layer his Columns of colored and glass Cubes to filterseries. The Jewels of Jean Schlumberger or absorb light. He introduced this Virginia Museum of Fine Arts but larger in scale, are perfectly round Richmond, VA spheresHis Orbs, that similar provide to his uniform paperweights magni- www.vmfa.museum Through November 18, 2011 all angles. In his Diptychs, Triptychs This exhibition features more than andfication Assemblages, of the encased Stankard elements weaves from color and form together into complex objects by the French designer Jean arrangements, setting up his elements Schlumberger30 examples of jewelry(1907–87). and Inspireddecorative in grids. Lily of the Valley Botanical, blown glass with by natural forms and his own surreal- flameworked elements, 4 3/8 x 2 1/2 x 1 7/8 A full-color catalog accompanies ist vision, Schlumberger served as a inches. Mid-1980s. Photo by Douglas Schaible the exhibition and provides context vice president of Tiffany & Co. for Photography. and interpretation through an in-depth Robert M. essay by critic William Warmus and Minkoff Foundation, this exhibition an artist interview by Glass Quarterly designsmore than of the30 years,20th century. producing some features Organized the works by the of glass artist Paul editor Andrew Page. The catalog fea- of theIn firm’s addition most to sought-afterincorporating jewelry a vari- Stankard, subject of a new book by ety of precious stones and metals into the same title, who is known for his that reveal new levels of detail in Stan- his designs, Schlumberger also revived innovations in glass marbles and other kard’stures high-magnification work. photographs forms using nature as his main focus. enamel. Beauty Beyond Nature presents traditional techniques such as pailloné - worked still-life sculptures encased morein clear than crystal 70 of from Stankard’s the Robert flame M. Minkoff Collection. The collection spans more than 40 years of Stankard’s career, from his earliest attempts at paperweights in 1969 to an eight-inch

for this exhibition in 2010. Honeybee Swarm Orb commissioned Palm Tree, enamel, black garnet ore, 18- and 24-carat gold. 1961. Copyright VMFA, 2011. references Stankard the creates plant kingdom flora, insects, as his primaryfigurative inspiration elements andbut poetry.does not He Washington Parenthetically Speaking: It’s Only a representations of individual species. Figure of Speech purportWorks to createrepresent scientifically all of Stankard’s accurate Museum of Glass design series, beginning with his Tacoma, WA www.museumofglass.org Victorian-age French botanical paper- Lily of the Valley Botanical, blown glass with floral Paperweights, inspired by the Through April 29, 2012 weights of Baccarat, St. Louis and flameworked elements, 4 3/8 x 2 1/2 x 1 7/8 Parenthetically Speaking is a new Clichy. Stankard expanded his efforts inches. Mid-1980s. Photo by Douglas Schaible collection of work by San Francisco- Photography. based artist Mildred Howard, com- are perpendicular in orientation, with ainto multitude his Botanicals of viewing series. angles. These In forms these prising more than 40 glass punctuation International marks, proofreading symbols and pieces, Stankard incorporates a distinct The Art of Collecting musical notes. - Royal Ontario Museum Toronto, Ontario, Canada Beauty Beyond Nature: rangementshorizon line andseparating also introduces the above honey and www.rom.on.ca The Art of Paul Stankard beesbelow and ground root peopleelements that of live the “hidden”floral ar October 22, 2011–October 2012 Museum of Glass in the root structure. The Royal Ontario Museum Tacoma, WA Stanakrd also began to add small words, such as “seed,” “pollen” and showcases some of its biggest names

30/ Fall–Winter 2011 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. and acknowledges donors to its Eu- ropean Decorative Art Collection in The Art of Collecting. Many of the objects have never been publicly displayed, but will be familiar as style and design icons; examples have been highlighted in nu- merous publications through the years. A number of rotations of objects will occur during this engagement.

Vase, enamel on silver-plated copper. De- signed by Camille Fauré, ca. 1925–30. Emaux d’Art C. Fauré, Paris, France. Gift of Bernard Pond Lily lamp, blown iridescent glass, patinated bronze. Tiffany Studios, Corona, and Sylvia Ostry. Certified Canadian Cultural New York, USA. ca. 1902. Purchased by ROM with assistance of Moveable Cultural Property. Property grant from Minister of Canadian Heritage. Acquisition made possible with More than 100 objects provide support of Department of Museum Volunteers Acquisition and Research Fund. Certi- a cross-section of the approximately fied Canadian Cultural Property.

European section over the last 15 as Margarete Heymann-Marks, Stig Glass pieces include works by 7,000 objects acquired by the ROM’s Lindberg, Valerie (Vally) Wieselthier René Lalique, Peter Behrens, Carlo and Keith Murray. Scarpa, Dale Chihuly and Dan Daily. (Italianyears—Art earthenware) Deco silver, and Post-Modern more. English silver highlights works Works of other designers, artisans and furnitureFollowing and Renaissance a chronological maiolica nar- by designer William Kent and silver- architects, including Jacques-Émile rative, the exhibition spans the late smiths Paul Crespin and Thomas Ruhlmann, Paul T. Frankl, Frank Heming, while continental silver is Lloyd Wright and Orrefors’ are also periods and examines the development represented by George Jensen and on display. ofRenaissance decorative to art the styles, Post-Modern social customs Jean Puiforcat. and material culture over the centuries. Examples of furniture include works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Carlo The Decorative Arts Society Bugatti, Hans Wegner and Mies van der Rohe. Ceramics are represented by the inclusion of French, English greatly appreciates and German factories such as Paris Porcelain, Sèvres, Chelsea, Worces- the support of our contributors. ter and Coalport, and designers such

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