The Decorative Arts Trust is a non-profit national organization of collectors, museum professionals, and others who share an interest in the study and preservation of the decorative arts through an exchange of information, lectures and seminars.

The Trust sponsors:

• Symposiums (two per year)
  
  • Featuring the best decorative arts experts
  • Travel to locations around America and Europe (The Getty Museum, Monticello, Historic Deerfield, Annapolis, Edinburgh, London)
  • Exclusive, behind-the-scenes visits to private properties
    
    
• Study Trip Abroad (one per year)
• Focusing on decorative arts relating to American material culture
• Meeting experts for lectures and collection tours
• In an attempt to understand the transfer of design and style in the decorative arts, the Trust members travel abroad to observe the antecedents of American decorative arts and architecture. The study trips have been held in Venice and the Veneto, looking at Palladian architecture, Holland, Scotland, Ireland and England.
  
  
• Newsletter
  • Briefings about upcoming and past symposiums
  • Reviews of exhibitions, books and events
    
    
• Graduate Students
  • Supports the participation of promising young scholars at Trust programs through the Dewey Lee Curtis Scholarship Fund
    
    
• Curators
  
  • Provides annual financial support through museum study programs for continuing education
    
    
• Exhibitions and Publications
  • Promotes important decorative arts exhibitions and publications
    

For more information:

The Decorative Arts Trust
106 Bainbridge Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Phone: (215) 627-2859
Fax (215) 925-1144

Officers of the Board of The Decorative Arts Trust

Bruce Coleman Perkins, President
Chevy Chase, MD

Dean F. Failey, 1st Vice President
Christie's, New York, NY

Mary Jane Pool, 2nd Vice President
New York, NY

Randall A. Schrimsher, Treasurer
Huntsville, AL

Helen S. Reed, Secretary
Manakin-Sabot, VA

Jonathan Fairbanks, Honorary Chairman

Wendell D. Garrett, Honorary Chairman
New York, NY

Governors of the Board of The Decorative Arts Trust

Carol Borchert Cadou,
Mount Vernon,
Mount Vernon, VA

Barbara Briggs Carr
Cleveland Heights, OH

Martha L. Dippell,
Chevy Chase, MD

James J. Hardy
Charlotte, NC

Ralph O. Harvard, III
New York, NY

Margize L. Howell
Classical American Homes Preservation Trust
New York, NY

Nancy A. Iliff
Lexington, KY

Brock W. Jobe
Winterthur Museum
Winterthur, DE

Henry C. Landon, III
Wilmington, NC

Robert A. Leath,
Old Salem Museum and Gardens,
Winston-Salem, NC

Johanna McBrien
Antiques and Fine Art Magazine,
Watertown, MA

Jane C. Nylander
Portsmouth, NH

Margaret B. Pritchard
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg, VA

Andrew Richmond
Garth's Auctions
Delaware, Ohio

James A. Sanders
Evansville, IN

Thomas Savage
Winterthur Museum
Winterthur, DE

Susan R. Stein
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Charlottesville, VA

Philip Zea
Director, Historic Deerfield
Deerfield, MA

Executive Director
Penelope McCaskill Hunt

Registrar
Maura McCarthy

Art Director
Veronica Miller

Webmaster
Julee Gooding

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