Delaware Antiques Show 2021

JENA GILBERT-MERRILL Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur “The possibilities of a box”: Louise Brigham’s Box Furniture Louise Brigham’s Box Furniture (1906) is a collection of designs and instructions for making simple, modular furniture from recycled wooden packing crates. Winterthur Library holds Brigham’s personal copy— complete with notes, edits, and extra material for a new but never published edition. Lectures sponsored by WINTERTHUR PROGRAM IN AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE PRESENTS YOUNG SCHOLARS Saturday, November 6, 2:00 pm Each year the Delaware Antiques Show highlights the research of current and/or recent Lois F. McNeil Fellows from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Winterthur and the University of Delaware, with the full support of H. F. du Pont, established this graduate program in 1952 to promote the interdisciplinary study of American decorative arts and material culture. The program’s alumni hold distinguished positions internationally in museums, antiques and auction houses, preservation organizations, historical societies, colleges and universities, and libraries. RACHAEL KANE Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Threads of Change: Assessing a Potential Meiji-Era Silk-work Painting What can a large, silk-work picture gifted by the Delaware Art Museum to Winterthur reveal about the political intrigue of Meiji-era Japan, the rapid internationalization sparked by the World’s Fair system, and the multinational history of embroidery? The quality of thread, stitch shape, and paper types along with in situ Japanese newsprint found in the back of the frame together offer myriad avenues of study and broaden our understanding of the potential provenance of embroidered material culture objects. JENA GILBERT-MERRILL Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur “The possibilities of a box”: Louise Brigham’s Box Furniture Louise Brigham’s Box Furniture (1906) is a collection of designs and instructions for making simple, modular furniture from recycled wooden packing crates. Winterthur Library holds Brigham’s personal copy— complete with notes, edits, and extra material for a new but never published edition. Lectures sponsored by WINTERTHUR PROGRAM IN AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE PRESENTS YOUNG SCHOLARS Saturday, November 6, 2:00 pm Each year the Delaware Antiques Show highlights the research of current and/or recent Lois F. McNeil Fellows from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Winterthur and the University of Delaware, with the full support of H. F. du Pont, established this graduate program in 1952 to promote the interdisciplinary study of American decorative arts and material culture. The program’s alumni hold distinguished positions internationally in museums, antiques and auction houses, preservation organizations, historical societies, colleges and universities, and libraries. RACHAEL KANE Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Threads of Change: Assessing a Potential Meiji-Era Silk-work Painting What can a large, silk-work picture gifted by the Delaware Art Museum to Winterthur reveal about the political intrigue of Meiji-era Japan, the rapid internationalization sparked by the World’s Fair system, and the multinational history of embroidery? The quality of thread, stitch shape, and paper types along with in situ Japanese newsprint found in the back of the frame together offer myriad avenues of study and broaden our understanding of the potential provenance of embroidered material culture objects. — 8 —