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Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860
Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materials developed at the museum, the revised and enhanced Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters is an indispensable guide for anyone involved with interpretation of decorative arts collections. Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860 elucidates the principles of public interpretation, explains how to analyze objects, and defines the concept of style. Eighteen chapters provide comprehensive descriptions of decorative arts including furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings and prints, metalwork, glass, and other objects...
American Decorative Arts
Examines American craftsmanship from Colonial times to the present and shows examples of ceramics, furniture, quilts, carpets, and prints
Collecting American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, 1971-1991
This exhibition and catalogue, celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture.
The Theory of Decorative Art
This anthology gathers together the most significant writings on the theory of the decorative arts from the mid-eighteenth century to the 1940s. The volume offers the first history of the theory of decorative art as it emerged in the West and reconstructs the debates over how to define this category of art and distinguish it from the fine arts (music, poetry, architecture, painting, and sculpture).
The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts
Included in the examples are works from the Charleston and Old Slave Mart museums and the ironwork of Philip Simmons.
Makers and Users
Here, American furniture and prints as well as English ceramics from a Milwaukee collection tell stories of stylistic change, regional preference, solutions of technological problems, and how Americans responded to English, European, Asian, and African influences.
Treasures of American and English Painting and Decorative Arts
An important catalog of one of the preeminent collections of British and American art. This volume highlights 126 of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley’s outstanding examples of English and American paintings and decorative arts. Julian Wood Glass Jr. (1910–1992) created this distinctive collection to furnish his living quarters, particularly his ancestral home Glen Burnie Historic House in Winchester, Virginia. Among its treasures are stunning eighteenth-century British portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Gainsborough, and George Romney, American paintings by Rembrandt Peale, John Singleton Copley, and William Merritt Chase, antique English and American silver and furniture, including outstanding objects by the Seymour family of Boston and a couch owned by Queen Charlotte of England. The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley is a dynamic museum complex located in Winchester, Virginia; it is dedicated to interpreting, presenting, and celebrating the art and culture of its region. The museum's main building was designed by Michael Graves and Associates. It opened in 2005.
