Thursday, March 21, 2002
The Omni Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Reception and Registration
Welcome to the 25th Anniversary Year
Jonathan Fairbanks
President, Decorative Arts Trust
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Architecture of Yale and New Haven
Christopher Wigren, Architectural Historian
The Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation
and The New Haven Preservation Trust
Friday, March 22, 2002
The Omni Hotel Ballroom
9:00 - 9:45 a.m.
A Special Kind of Excellence: Paul Mellon as Collector of British
Art
Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings
Yale Center for British Art
9:45 - 10:05 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:05 - 10:50 a.m.
Gold Discovered: John Singleton Copley's Portrait Miniatures on
Copper
Theresa Fairbanks, Chief Conservator
Yale Center for British Art
10:50 - 11:45 a.m.
The Rococo in New England
Brock Jobe, The Charles Montgomery Professor
Winterthur Museum
Winterthur, DE
12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch at Hotel
1:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Collection of Musical
Instruments and historic architecture/landscape walking tour of
Hill House Avenue
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Return to hotel
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Dinner at Mory's, a New Haven Club founded in 1849
Saturday, March 23, 2002
Yale University Art Gallery Auditorium
1111 Chapel Street
Walk south to Chapel Street, turn right, proceed 2½ blocks
to Gallery
9:30 - 10:40 a.m.
The American Decorative Arts Collections of the Yale University
Art Gallery
Patricia Kane, Curator
10:40 - 11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Case Furniture in the Furniture Study Collection at Yale
Gerald Ward, Katherine Lane Weems Curator of American Decorative
Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Art Boston
12 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Lunch at the Union League Café
1032 Chapel Street
Presentation of The Decorative Arts Trust Award of Excellence
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Yale University Art Gallery Collection
Seminar Room for American Silver Workshops
with Patricia Kane
Yale Study Collection Workshops
with Jonathan Fairbanks and Gerald Ward
Dinner on own
Sunday, March 24, 2002
Omni Hotel Ballroom
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
British Portrait Painting in the 18th Century: A Live Demonstration
Jonathan Fairbanks, Artist
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Carving a Newport Ball and Claw Foot: A Slide Demonstration
Allan Breed, Carver
New Hampshire
11:30 - 12 noon
Demonstrations continue. Time to take a closer look and to talk
with Fairbanks and Breed. Breed will have on hand newly carved table
legs with ball and claw feet from various colonial American port
cities.
OPTIONAL TOURS
Thursday, March 21, 2002
8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
New London and Norwich, CT
Depart hotel at 8:15 a.m. and motor coach to New London. Visit
the 1678 Joshua Hempsted House and the adjacent 1759 Nathaniel Hempsted
House, both owned by the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society. Bill
Hosley, the Society's Director, will accompany Trust members for
the daylong journey. Continue on to the 1756 Shaw Mansion and the
Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College. Trust members
will have a workshop study of the early Connecticut furniture at
the Lyman Allyn with curator/conservator Lance Mayer. After lunch,
Trust members will travel to Norwich to visit the 18th century Christopher
Leffingwell House to see Norwich silver and antiques of local origin.
From there, visit the Slater Museum, an influential 19th century
museum frozen in time. Return to New Haven.
Sunday, March 24, 2002
1:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Old Lyme and its Art Colony
Depart hotel with box lunch and travel by motor coach to Old Lyme,
CT, to visit the Florence Griswold Museum housed in the 1817 Griswold
family home. This museum has become the repository for paintings
by the American Impressionists who worked in the vicinity of Old
Lyme. From paintings by Childe Hassam to Lyme Art Association to
the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, this area will surprise you. Late
afternoon refreshments at private collection.
