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Category Archives: Students & Alumni
Silhouette Sleuthing: Solving the Mystery of the Weston Profile Artist (Part 2)
In the first Silhouette Sleuthing blog post, I detailed how I discovered that one of the silhouettes in the Winterthur collection had been misattributed to artist Mary Pillsbury Weston, who was most famous for her Spirit of Kansas painting exhibited … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Programs, American Culture Studies, antiques, Decorative Arts, Delaware Antiques Show, Events, exhibition, museum collection, Prints, Photos & Drawings, Students & Alumni, Uncategorized
Tagged #DAS, antiques, Delaware Antiques Show, silhouette, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library
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Silhouette Sleuthing: The Mystery of the Weston Profile Artist
What started as simple research into a silhouette in the Winterthur collection has progressed to a three-month trek through directories, census records, newspaper advertisements, maps, artist encyclopedias, archives, and auction catalogs. The silhouette in question, a group portrait against an … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Programs, antiques, Decorative Arts, Delaware Antiques Show, exhibition, museum collection, Prints, Photos & Drawings, Students & Alumni, Uncategorized
Tagged #DAS, antiques, Delaware Antiques Show, silhouttes, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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Tools, Textiles, and Water Mills
During the summer between the first and second years of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture graduate program, fellows disperse to research their various thesis topics. For me, this meant traveling from Virginia to Vermont, to explore the world … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Programs, American Culture Studies, Decorative Arts, George Washington, Students & Alumni, Textiles, Uncategorized
Tagged American textile history museum, George Washington, graduate programs winterthur, mount vernon ladies association, Sturbridge Village, textiles, tools, water mills, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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Truths of the Trade: Collecting, Researching, and Exhibiting an Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Cabinet
A mere shadow, faintly visible in raking light, is all that remains of the script that once spelled “Philadelphia” on the drawer front of Winterthur’s recently acquired double cabinet. This drawer may be blank, but gold painted letters still adorn … Continue reading
Road Trip!
This summer I embarked on an expedition to the Midwest for thesis research on nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century Islamic architecture in American domestic and religious spaces. I refer to this journey as the “Thesis Research Road Trip Adventure” because, little did … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Programs, American Culture Studies, antiques, Architecture, Design, Students & Alumni, Uncategorized
Tagged antiques, islamic architecture, lois mcneil fellow, midwest architecture, moorish architecture, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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Pushing Buttons (Into New Storage Housing)
The first year of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) begins with a block on Preventive Conservation taught by Dr. Joelle Wickens. This specialty addresses an object’s environment and aims to prevent or reduce degradation of entire … Continue reading
Making a Meal of it—Preparing for Winterthur’s Upcoming Dining Exhibition
Dining by Design: Nature Displayed on the Dinner Table, opening April 1, 2018, takes a fresh look at the history of dining and dinnerware from the 1600s through modern times and celebrates how hosts and hostesses have brought the natural … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Programs, Behind-the-Scenes, Ceramics, chinese export porcelain, collection, Decorative Arts, exhibition, Exhibitions, galleries, museum collection, Students & Alumni, Uncategorized
Tagged antiques, Chinese Export Porcelain, dining, dining by design, museum, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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Getting on the Bus
In his 1968 classic book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe traveled the country in a bus with writer Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. During a trip that came to encapsulate the counterculture, Wolfe quoted Kesey … Continue reading
Posted in American Culture Studies, Library, museum collection, Students & Alumni, Uncategorized
Tagged 19th century, Byrdcliffe, communities, hamilton college, intentional communities, oneida, utopias, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, Woodstock
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Ornamental Arts at Moravian Boarding Schools
Winterthur is renowned for its incomparable Pennsylvania German collection, but few realize that it also has an excellent small group of Moravian objects. Thanks to a recent research fellowship, l have been able to study the latter pieces that were, … Continue reading
Research Never Tasted So Good
As the 2016 election season reaches its climax, one of our research fellows has provided us with a delicious treat to celebrate the occasion. Bryce Evans, senior lecturer in history at Liverpool Hope University, England, is researching the history of … Continue reading
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