About this Event
This year’s symposium will explore the relationship between architects, decorators, and owners in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to compliment the museum’s current exhibit. Listen to a full day of speakers and tour the exhibit with Patrick Sheary, Curator of "Illuminating Design: The Decoration and Technology of E. F. Caldwell and Co., 1895-1959." Lunch and snacks included.
Speakers include:
Alice Dickinson, Curator of Collections, New York Yacht Club
Presentation: “Room by Room: Furnishing a Gilded Age Club”
Lori Finkelstein, Philip Franklin Wagley Director & Curator, Evergreen Museum & Library
Presentation: “The Enduring Allure of Evergreen's Gold Bathroom”
Barbara Hyde, Keeper of the May Patterson Goodrum House, The Watson-Brown Foundation
Presentation: “Something to Last the Years: Philip Trammell Shutze's Neoclassicism of the South”
Serena Newmark, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin
Presentation: “Prussian Stylistic Influences on Ironwork in Gilded Age America”
Amber Wingerson, Museum Professional
Presentation: “Illuminating Etiquette: Interior Illumination at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
DAR Museum, 1776 D St NW, Washington, United States
USD 85.00