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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
Jonathan Fairbanks, President
Boston, MA
Mary Jane Pool, Vice President
New York, NY
Bruce Coleman Perkins, Treasurer
Washington, DC
Helen S. Reed, Secretary
Manakin-Sabot, VA
Wendell D. Garrett, Honorary Chairman
New York, NY
Governors of the Board of The Decorative Arts Trust
Barbara Briggs Carr
Cleveland Heights, OH
Martha L. Dippell,
Chevy Chase, MD
Dean F. Failey
Christie's
New York, NY
Margize L. Howell
New York, NY
Ralph O. Harvard, III
New York, NY
Nancy A. Iliff
Lexington, KY
Brock W. Jobe
Winterthur Museum
Winterthur, DE
Henry C. Landon, III
North Wilkesboro, NC
Allison Ledes
The Magazine Antiques
New York, NY
Jack L. Lindsey
Ancram, NY
Jane C. Nylander
Portsmouth, NH
Margaret B. Pritchard
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg, VA
James A. Sanders
Evansville, IN
Thomas Savage
Winterthur Museum
Winterthur, DE
Randall A. Schrimsher
Huntsville, AL
Susan R. Stein
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Charlottesville, VA
Philip Zea
Director, Historic Deerfield
Deerfield, MA
Executive Director
Penny McCaskill Hunt
Contributing Editor of Newsletter
Constance Hershey
Registrar
Donna Paone
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