If it's not baroque, don't fix it!
Following the Fellows through
the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture.
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Getting the Rolls Royce ready for Point-to-Point!
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Earthenware day! Check out that great cauliflower-ware teapot.
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The ceramist studying a late eighteenth-century dipped jug.
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Looking at glass during our very last Connoisseurship Block!
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Kicking off the Eleventh Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars!
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WPAMC Philippe Halbert presents on the practice of women wearing masks in the 18th century.
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Roundtable discussion with all the presenters at the Eleventh Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars.
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Our first day of ceramics and glass block started with a double session with Mary Mills from the Corning Museum of Glass.
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On our way back from Massachusetts we stopped at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion in Norwalk, CT. This breathtaking 1868 home was fashionably decorated by Herter Brothers.
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Our second day at OSV was spent discussing textiles and wallpaper in historic interiors with Jane and Richard Nylander. In the bottom picture, Alex and Jane compare a “ye olde” colored textile to a period colored one.
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Our 19th-century interiors course took a trip up to Old Sturbridge Village - a recreated rural New England town replete with lambs, wheels of cheese, and historic crafts. Needless to say, we had a great time.
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Margaret Pritchard from Colonial Williamsburg came in to teach us about maps.
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Identifying prints means looking really closely at a lot of lines, squiggles, and dots.
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Analyzing the back of Gilbert Stuart’s James Monroe at PAFA.
