Appraisers Association Study Trip: Winterthur Study Trip to Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware to take place Wednesday, August 23 through Friday, August 25, 2006, featuring lectures and hands-on workshops on all aspects of the Arts of the Pe
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Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans
Wednesday, August 23 through Friday, August 25, 2006
The 2006 Winterthur Museum Study Trip, focusing on Advanced Connoisseurship of American Fine and Decorative Arts: Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans will feature a series of lectures, workshops, and connoisseurship tours. The Pennsylvania German collection is one of the centerpieces of Winterthur’s collection, and Winterthur has been a pioneer in the scientific examination of frakturs in particular, making this a very special study trip this year. The program, which will be limited to 30 participants, will take place in Winterthur’s seminar and period rooms. Schedule subject to change.
Wednesday, August 23
Overview: Culture & Context
9:00am
Check-in & Coffee Welcome: J. Thomas Savage, Director of Museum Affairs, Winterthur
9:15 – 10:15am
“Overview of Culture, Context and Architecture of the Region” Speaker: Dr. Bernard Herman, Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware
10:30 – 11:30pm
Lecture: “Images and Drawings: Documenting the People and Landscape of the Region”
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Ryan, Executive Director, Lancaster County Historical Society
12:00pm
Lunch on your own
1:15 – 2:45pm
Alternating Sessions; Workshop: Mid-Atlantic and Pennsylvania German Salt-glazed Stoneware with James. R. Koterski, Author and Collector, Chadds Ford, PA & Tour: Pennsylvania German Special Subject Tour
3:00 – 4:30pm
Alternating Sessions; Workshop: Mid-Atlantic and Pennsylvania German Salt-glazed Stoneware with James. R. Koterski, Author and Collector, Chadds Ford, PA & Tour: Pennsylvania German Special Subject Tour
5:00pm
Return to Mendenhall Inn for Dutch-treat Dinner at the Inn
Thursday, August 24: Furniture & Fraktur
9:15 – 10:15am
Lecture: “Pennsylvania German Painted Furniture”
Speaker: Charles Hummel, Curator Emeritus & Adjunct Professor, Winterthur For approximately 100 years from 1744 to 1840, Pennsylvania German craftsmen created an incredible variety of beautiful and functional painted furniture. This talk concentrates on blanket chests, but will also illustrate bedsteads, desks and bookcases, cupboards, and boxes.
10:30 – 11:30pm
Lecture: “Fraktur as Art and Artifice” Speaker: Lisa Minardi, McNeil Curatorial Intern, Winterthur This lecture will focus on the history and cultural context of fraktur, with discussion of the various regions, religious groups, and artists.
12:00pm
Lunch on your own
1:15 – 2:15pm
Alternating Sessions
1. Workshop: Pennsylvania German Furniture Construction with Wendy Cooper, Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture, Winterthur; and Charles Hummel, Curator Emeritus & Adjunct Professor, Winterthur
2. Workshop: Pigments on Paper and Wood with Dr. Jennifer Mass, Senior Scientist, Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory, Winterthur. This workshop will include a review of the pigments that were used by the Pennsylvania Germans to produce the brightly colored fraktur and painted furniture. The instrumental methods of analysis used to identify Pennsylvania German pigments and other painting materials will also be discussed and demonstrated.
3. Workshop: Fraktur with Lisa Minardi, McNeil Curatorial Intern, Winterthur; examination of different types of fraktur, focusing on identification and evaluation
2:30 – 3:30pm
Alternating Sessions
1. Workshop: Pennsylvania German Furniture Construction with Wendy Cooper, Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture, Winterthur; and
