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The Symposium

Shelf Clock Roxbury, Massachusetts ca. 1815, Painted pine, leather, and brass Museum of the City of New York

Thursday Evening, March 10, 2005
Harbor Court Hotel Ballroom

6:00 pm. Reception

6:30 p.m. Welcome, Opening Remarks –
Jonathan Fairbanks, President, Decorative Arts Trust

The Jonathan L. Fairbanks Lecture:
American Fancy, Exuberance in the Arts 1790-1840
Sumpter Priddy, III, Sumpter Priddy Antiques, Alexandria, Virginia

7:30 p.m. Adjourn

Dinner on own

Friday, March 11, 2005
Harbor Court Hotel Ballroom

9:00 – 9:50 a.m. Privateers and Princesses: The Cultural History of Baltimore 1750-1850
Gregory Weidman, Furnishings Project Coordinator, Historic Hampton, Inc.

9:50 – 10:10 a.m. Coffee Break

10:10 – 11:00 a.m. “A Very Splendid Assortment”: Furniture in Maryland Life Jeannine Disviscour, Curator and Associate Director for Satellite Museums, Maryland Historical Society

11:00-11:50 a.m. Baltimore Artists: The Peales and their Contemporaries
Nancy Davis, Deputy Director, Maryland Historical Society

12 Noon Lunch

1:15 p.m. Depart Hotel by motor coach for the Maryland Historical Society with its newly designed interior and galleries.Trust members will tour the Fancy exhibit with Sumpter Priddy, visit the new Paintings Gallery with Nancy Davis and the new Maryland Furniture Gallery with Jeannine Disviscour.

5:00 p.m. Depart Maryland Historical Society and travel to Lutherville, MD, to visit two splendid private collections and enjoy libations.

8:00 p.m. Arrive back at Harbor Court Hotel – dinner on own.

Saturday, March 12, 2005
Harbor Court Hotel Ballroom

9:00 - 9:50 a.m. Architecture of Baltimore
Charlie Duff, Jr., President/CEO, Jubilee Baltimore, Inc.

9:50 – 10:10 a.m. Coffee break

10:10 – 11:00 a.m. Maryland Textiles: From Cotton to Kaleidoscope
Nancy Davis, Curator, Maryland Historical Society

11:00 – 11:50 a.m. Baltimore Silver
Jennifer Goldsborough, Faculty, Masters Program in the History of Decorative Arts, Cooper-Hewitt/Smithsonian-Parsons School of Design; Sotheby’s Institute of Art; Chesapeake College, Maryland

12:30 p.m Depart by motor coach with box lunches for Architectural driving tour round Baltimore with Charles Duff. Arrive at Baltimore Museum of Art for tours of their Period Rooms, Baltimore Furniture and Silver Collections with Catherine Thomas, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, and Mark Letzer, silver expert.

5:00 p.m. Depart for visits to two private collections in nearby grand

19th century Baltimore townhouse homes with historic interiors and proper furnishings. One thoroughly Neoclassical, and the other with walls hung chair rail to ceiling with probably the most complete collection of Baltimore views.

8:00 p.m. Arrive Harbor Court Hotel – dinner on own.

Sunday, March 13, 2005
Harbor Court Hotel Ballroom

9:00 – 9:50 a.m. Latrobe and His Painted Furniture Commissions in Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, Assistant Curator of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art

9:50 – 10:10 a.m. Coffee Break

10:10 – 11:00 a.m. Interiors Turn Fancy Across America
Betsy Garrett, Director of Education, Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth , NH

11:00 – 11:50 a.m. Further on Fancy
Sumpter Priddy

11:50-12 Noon Farewell from Jonathan Fairbanks

Thursday Optional Tour

Thursday, March 10, 2005
Exploring the Essence of Historical Baltimore
Curator Catherine Rogers Arthur will be our host.

8:30 a.m. – Depart Harbor Court Hotel

9-10:45 a.m. - Walking tour of Mt. Vernon Place with its Washington Monument, private clubs, grand townhouses and historic institutions. Included will be the Engineers Club redone by Stanford White, The Peabody Library’s extraordinary interior circa 1874-78, and a private collection.

11:00 – 12:15 p.m. - Visit to the newly installed 19th Century Gallery of the Walters Art Gallery , hung with period American and English paintings.

12:30 – 1:45 p.m. - Lunch at the nearby private Mount Vernon Club.

2:00 – 4:15 p.m. Visit appropriately and beautifully furnished historic Homewood , an 1801 Federal house on the campus of Johns Hopkins University. Trust members will see by special permission the Madeira keep in the house and enjoy a Madeira tasting in the wine cellar. Their exhibit “What’s in a Wardrobe” explores Baltimore family dressing in 18th century.

Sunday Optional Tour

Sunday, March 13, 2005
Early Homes of Friendship, MD

Depart with box lunch and Ralph Harvard, Trust Governor and early Southern architecture and furniture expert, to visit several early private riverfront homes in the Friendship, Maryland, area, south of Baltimore.

The center piece of this excursion is Holly Hill, 1699;1713;1723, which is still owned and lived in by the original family. It is an extremely important house and is well known for the discovery of paintings in the passageway and dining room overmantel, one showing an early plan of the house and gardens. This tour will bring together early architecture, interiors and furnishings of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Trust members will depart at 12:30 p.m. and return to the Harbor Court Hotel by 7:30 p.m.

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