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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