55th Annual Delaware Show

The baronial dining room of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, where Collectors Circle members were the house guests of Lord and Lady Tollemache. This article is generously sponsored by The Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle You are cordially invited to join the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle. Founded in 1984, Collectors Circle enhances Winterthur’s continuing success by funding important additions to the collection and supporting the museum’s academic work. Winterthur recognizes Collectors Circle donors by providing special benefits including access to curators, opportunities for exclusive domestic and international travel, privileged early access to the Delaware Antiques Show, and participation in the Collectors Circle Annual Meeting, a three-day study program. Designed for those with a passion for decorative arts, Collectors Circle provides its donors with opportunities to develop these interests and meet others who share them. Collectors Circle donors receive exceptional benefits including traveling with Winterthur experts to private houses, collections, and museums throughout the United States and abroad. Recently, groups have toured collections in Sicily, Naples, India, and England as well as Newport, the Hudson River Valley, and Tidewater Virginia. They also have access to the nation’s top experts on American and related decorative arts and may meet withWinterthur’s curators about their own collecting interests and with Winterthur’s conservators about caring for their collections. Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library was founded in 1951 when Henry Francis du Pont generously donated his house, collection, and garden to form what is today the world’s preeminent museum of American decorative arts. Central toWinterthur’s mission is the research and teaching effort that includes two graduate programs in American material culture and conservation and original, groundbreaking exhibitions, conferences, and courses on a wide variety of collecting and material culture topics. Winterthur relies on the generosity of Collectors Circle donors to help acquire decorative arts masterpieces and original source material for the museum. Annual membership is fully tax-deductible. For information and to join Collectors Circle, contact Amanda Hinckle, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, at 302.888.4878 or ahinckle@winterthur.org. — 35 —