Organic vs. Inorganic Materials Activity
Hand fans in the John and Carolyn Grossman Collection
The John and Carolyn Grossman Collection contains about 250,000 items that document chromolithography, a process of printing in colors that was developed in Europe during the early 1800s and arrived in America in 1840. As the 19th century progressed, chromolithographic illustrations could be found on such items as postcards, greeting cards, calendars, labels, trade cards, posters, books, children’s games, decorative prints, and numerous other items, including hand fans, objects especially prized by Carolyn Grossman.
The hand fans in the Grossman Collection date from the 1890s to about 1915, years that are the high-water mark for chromolithographic work. They can be grouped into seven categories: valentines, calendars, advertisements, nature, pets, children, and holidays. Of course, sometimes a fan transcends a single category, such as a Christmas fan that shows a calendar and holly.
The hand fans in the Grossman Collection, like many elsewhere, are largely by unknown individuals. Enough exceptions exist, however, to indicate that accomplished artists, writers, and publishers were involved in creating them. Artists include Ellen Clapsaddle (1865-1934) and Frances Brundage (1854-1937); writers include Marguerite Radcliffe, Alice Reed, H. M. Burnside, and Eliza Cook (1818-1889); and publishers include the International Art Publishing Co., Ernest Nister, E. P. Dutton & Co., Raphael Tuck & Sons, the American Lithographic Co., and Promis & Co. Much of the printing was done in Germany, where chromolithography was practiced so well.
Most, if not all, of the hand fans in the Grossman Collection were produced by women, and the fans demonstrate a high level of beauty and creativity. Their intricate designs are some of the finest examples of their kind. Students of Victorian imagery will note that images on fans also appear on other items. For instance, the young girl to the far right in “To my Sweetheart,” a fan illustrated by Frances Brundage (No. 10), also shows up on a trade card for Glenwood Ranges.
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Fellows Spotlights
Elaine K. Ng
Multidisciplinary artist Elaine K. Ng returned to Winterthur this summer to complete her Maker-Creator Fellowship interrupted in 2020 by the onset of the pandemic. Ng’s practice uses material investigation, writing, and research to examine our relationships to place. Her work explores the physical and psychological structures of site, microhistories carried through objects, and meanings imbued in material and pattern.
While at Winterthur, Ng furthered her project “But Where Are You Really From? An Ecological Fingerprint of Place” that considers the ecology of natural and built environments as evolving repositories of information that contribute to the complex identify of a place. Ng collected a variety of plant specimens from our grounds through consultation with members of the institution’s garden staff, then utilized wet lab space in our paintings conservation lab for the duration of her two-week fellowship to create pigment extractions, or “fingerprints of place” from these specimens that will be used in the upcoming installation.
Ng holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and has been a Fulbright Fellow for research in Taiwan. Her guest artist residencies include the Djerassi Program and, most recently, at the Corning Museum of Glass.
Short-Term Research Fellow, 2022-23. Photo courtesy of Carla Cevasco.
Dr. Carla Cevasco
Dr. Carla Cevasco is in residence at Winterthur this summer as she conducts research for her second, book-length project, Feeding Children in Early America, an outgrowth of her recently published book, Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast (Yale University Press, 2022).
This new project investigates the feeding of children, as prescribed and practiced, across various cultures in early America from the 17th to 19th centuries. Dr. Cevasco’s research reveals that the peoples of the newly independent United States cultivated a national cuisine idealized in the image of a white, middle-class mother feeding her child. That was not, however, the reality of how most children ate in early America. The array of people who participated in the feeding of children was much wider: enslaved and free domestic workers, institutions like foundling hospitals or orphanages, and residential schools. Dr. Cevasco hopes to shed light on what nutrition looked like for early American children and examine how it impacted the construction of gender and race.
At Winterthur, Cevasco is conducting research for the third chapter of her book, which investigates the idealized domestic sphere in the mid-19th century. Winterthur Library’s extensive catalog of recipe books, parenting guides, etiquette guides, domestic manuals, and medical texts will help her to understand the period’s ideals. The museum’s collection—including an array of baby bottles, pap boats, children’s dishes, nursing implements, and maternity clothing—will provide insight into the realities of child feeding, which may or may not stray from such ideals.
Dr. Cevasco completed her master’s degree in American history and PhD in American studies at Harvard University.
Current and Past Research Fellows
2023-2024
Elizabeth Block, Ph.D., Independent Scholar; “Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing”; short-term fellowship.
Alexander David Clayton, Ph.D. Candidate, History; University of Michigan; “The Living Animal: Animating Nature in the Colonial Menagerie, 1750–1890”; dissertation fellowship.
Caroline Creeden, Independent Scholar; “Selvedge: Domestic Craft”; maker-creator fellowship.
Christina Day, Full-Time Faculty, Fiber; Maryland Institute College of Art; “Linoleum and the Permanence of Passé”; maker-creator fellowship.
Kathryn Desplanque, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-century European Art History; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; “Creative Destruction: Visual Art Defined by Exclusion from the 18th Century to Today”; postdoctoral fellowship.
Joseph Drury, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English; Villanova University; “On Whimsy: Capricious Designs in Britain and America, 1700–1850”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Factor, Doctoral Student; Brandeis University; “Intimate Play: Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Art of the Poem Game”; dissertation fellowship.
Lily Higgins, Doctoral Candidate; Yale University; “Reading into Things: Articulate Objects in Colonial North America”; short-term fellowship.
Ryan Kelly, Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Studio Art, Ceramics & Foundations; Western Washington University; “Mining the Museum”; maker-creator fellowship.
Susan Kern, Ph.D., Scholar/Author; “History and the Age of Restoration: Reframing the American Past and Present”; William Seale Short-Term Fellowship*
Cynthia Chin Kirk, Ph.D. Researcher; University of Glasgow; “Collecting Eighteenth-Century Dress and the Creation of America”; dissertation fellowship.
Andrea Miles, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Louisville; “Black Rebels: African American Revolutionaries From North Carolina During and After the War of Independence”; short-term fellowship.
Hugo Nakashima-Brown, Student; North Bennet Street School; “Critical Craft in Shaker and American Folk Furniture of the Winterthur Collection”; maker-creator fellowship.
Marina Nye, Ph.D. Candidate; UCLA; “Beyond Repair: Textile Reuse and Repurposing in the Early American Republic”; short-term fellowship.
Robert Paulett, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; “The Breeches of Britain: Leather, Scotland, and the British Empire in the 1700s”; short-term fellowship.
Margo Rabb, Independent Scholar; “Life Among the Ruins: the Crowninshield Garden, and the Meaning and Value of Public Gardens”; short-term fellowship.
Tia Santana, Lecturer/Faculty, UCLA, California State University Long Beach, and Santa Monica College; “Who Will Tell Our Stories?”; maker-creator fellowship.
Lucy Smith, Ph.D. Candidate, History & Women’s and Gender Studies; University of Michigan; “The Atlantic Bite: Circulation, Economy, and the Meaning of Teeth in George Washington’s World”; short-term fellowship.
Cindy Stockton-Moore, Independent Artist; “Natural Sampler: Note/Field/Sketch”; maker-creator fellowship.
Kathryn Sullivan, Independent Scholar; “An Anthropology of Oak: Trade, Trees & Craft”; maker-creator fellowship.
Lilith Todd, Ph.D. Candidate; Columbia University; “Tending Another: The Rhetoric and Labor of Nursing in the Long Eighteenth Century”; short-term fellowship.
Emily Wells, Ph.D. Candidate; College of William & Mary; “ ‘Keep Within Compass’: Geographies of Girlhood in the American South, 1783–1865”; short-term fellowship.
Emily Whitted, Ph.D. Student; University of Massachusetts Amherst; “Darned, Patched, and Mended: Repairing Textiles in Eighteenth-Century America”; dissertation fellowship.
Douglas Winiarski, Ph.D., Professor of Religious Studies & American Studies; University of Richmond; “Shakers & the Shawnee Prophet: Making & Breaking Religious Communities on the Early American Frontier, 1805–1825”; Faith Andrews Short-Term Fellowship**.
Rachel Winter, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Groningen; “The cause of much chagrin: marine shagreen as a tool for elasmobranch historical ecology”; short-term fellowship.
Mark Wonsidler, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections; Lehigh University Art Galleries; “Decadent Decoration, or In Search of Queer Lamps and Other Oddities”; maker-creator fellowship.
*The William Seale Short-Term Fellowship honors the late William Seale, a renowned specialist in historic architecture, interiors, and gardens.
**The Faith Andrews Short-Term Fellowship honors Mrs. Faith Andrews and Dr. Edward Deming Andrews, a pioneering Shaker scholar whose collection is housed in the Winterthur Library as the “Edward Deming Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection.”
2022-2023
Jenny Carson, Ph.D., Professor; Maryland Institute College of Art; “John Lewis Krimmel”; short-term fellowship.
Carla Cevasco, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Rutgers University-New Brunswick; “Feeding Children in Early America”; short-term fellowship.
Alexander David Clayton, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Michigan; “The Living Animal: Biopower and Empire in the Atlantic Menagerie, 1760-1890”; short-term fellowship.
Basil Considine, Ph.D., Artistic Director; Really Spicy Opera, and Elissa Edwards, Artistic Director for Elan Ensemble; Ensemble-in-residence at the Hammond-Harwood House Museum; “Pixie/Pirate/Princess: An Interactive Theatre Party for Children”; maker-creator fellowship.
Courtney DiMare, Independent Scholar; “What She Wore”; maker-creator fellowship.
Alexandra Zoë Dostal, Ph.D. Candidate; Columbia University; “Rope, Linen, Thread: Gender, Labor and Eighteenth-Century British Art”; short-term fellowship.
Anna Abhau Elliott, Independent Scholar; “Fake Food: An Inquiry”; maker-creator fellowship.
Katherine Fein, Ph.D. Candidate; Columbia University; “Tusk and Skin: The Intimate Ecologies of Ivory Miniatures”; short-term fellowship.
Allison Fulton, Ph.D. Candidate; University of California Davis; “Disciplining Craft: The Gendered Making of Nineteenth-Century American Science”; dissertation fellowship.
Jillian Galle, Ph.D., Project Director, Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS); Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello); “Fragmented Lives: the Materiality of Enslavement in the Early Modern Atlantic World”; NEH postdoctoral fellowship.
Blake Grindon, Doctoral Candidate; Princeton University; “The Death of Jane McCrea: Sovereignty and Revolutionary Violence in the Northeast”; short-term fellowship.
Holly Gruntner, Ph.D. Candidate; William & Mary; “Fertile Ground: Kitchen Gardens and Knowledge Production in Early America”; dissertation fellowship.
Julia Harrison, Resident Artist; Penland School of Craft; “The Mechanics Making (Sweets) Special”; maker-creator fellowship.
Brece Honeycutt, Independent Scholar; “Prismatic Utopia”; maker-creator fellowship.
Peter Hudson, Apprentice Joiner; Colonial Williamsburg; “Makers in Maine: Reading Labor Back”; maker-creator fellowship.
Donna Kaz, Playwright; Kaz Conference Writing Workshop; “The Sweetgum Trilogy”; maker-creator fellowship.
Gregg Moore, Professor; Arcadia University, and Omar Tate, Chef and Artist; Honeysuckle Projects, “Abolition and Ceramics”; maker-creator fellowship.
Katya Oicherman, Ph.D., Independent Scholar; “Bed Linen Trade Catalogues: The Material Culture of Sleep and North American Homemaking (1850 and 1930)”; short-term fellowship.
Nathaniel Otjen, Incoming Postdoctoral Research Associate; Princeton University; “Avian Care: The Evolution of Bird Architecture in the Modern US and Europe”; short-term fellowship.
Elisabeth Pellathy, Associate Professor; University of Alabama at Birmingham; “Textiles”; maker-creator fellowship.
Phillippa Pitts, Ph.D. Candidate; Boston University; “Bottled & Sold: The Tangible Forms of America’s Medical Democracy”; short-term fellowship.
Olaf Recktenwald, Ph.D., Co-Editor-in-Chief, Montreal Architectural Review; McGill University; “The Pop-Up Diagram: Thomas Malton’s A Compleat Treatise on Perspective”; short-term fellowship.
Louisa Wood Ruby, Ph.D. Visiting Fellow; Bard Graduate Center; “Collecting Colonial New York Paintings at Winterthur”; Winterthur postdoctoral fellowship.
Sohee Ryuk, Ph.D. Candidate; Columbia University; “Weaving ‘Oriental Carpets’ into the Soviet Union: Handicraft and Folk Art at the Intersections of Nation, Commodity, and Labor, 1890-1989”; dissertation fellowship.
Amy Sailer, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Utah; “Red House”; maker-creator fellowship.
Marshall Scheetz, Master Cooper; Jamestown Cooperage LLC; “Cannikin, Tankard, Noggin, Stoup: History, Usage, and Manufacture of Wooden Staved Drinking Vessels in early America”; maker-creator fellowship.
Cambra Sklarz, Ph.D. Candidate; University of California, Riverside; “The Artist and the Ecosystem: Strategies for the Use and Reuse of Materials in Early America”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Steverson, Virtual Resident; Black Botany Studio; “Mojo for a Changing Planet”; maker-creator fellowship.
Sarah Templin, Professor; Parsons School of Design & Maryland Institute College of Art; “Sustainability in Furniture Design Project”; maker-creator fellowship.
Courtney Wilder, Ph.D., Independent Scholar; “Fashioning the Industrial Revolution: Printed Dress Textiles and the Visual Economy in Europe, 1815-1851”; short-term fellowship.
2021-2022
Tracy Barnett, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Georgia; “Men and Their Guns: The Culture of Self-Deputized Manhood in the South, 1850-1877”; dissertation fellowship.
Richard Bell, Professor; University of Maryland; “The First Freedom Riders: Streetcars and Street Fights in Jim Crow New York”; short-term fellowship.
Barrie Blatchford, Ph.D. Candidate; Columbia University; “Fashion Victims: An Environmental History of the American Fur Industry, 1870-2006”; short-term fellowship.
Alexandra Cade, Senior Curator and Director of Woodwind Studies; Sigal Music Museum and Tommy Dougherty, Composer; “The Winterthur Suite”; maker-creator fellowship.
Camille Marie Davis, Ph.D. Candidate; Southern Methodist University; “Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraiture in Constructing the Nascent Identity of American Leaders”; critical race short-term fellowship.
Nushelle de Silva, Ph.D. Candidate; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; “Protocols for the Peripatetic: Infrastructures of Exhibition Exchange in the Modern Museum”; dissertation fellowship.
Nannina Gilder, Scriptwriter and Cynthia Wade, Director/Co-Writer; “The Shaker Screenplay”; maker-creator fellowship.
Aspen Golann, Furniture Maker/Studio Artist and Kelly Harris, Furniture Maker/Educator; “Windsor Chairs: Accessing the Icon”; critical craft short-term fellowship.
Javier P. Grossutti, Research Fellow; Università degli Studi di Padova; “When Migration Studies, Decorative Arts and Entrepreneurship interweaves: German Cabinet Makers and Italian Mosaic Workers in the Herter Brothers Company”; short-term fellowship.
Victoria Hensley, Research and Programs Manager; Black Craftspeople Digital Archive; “Finding the Black Presence in Tennessee’s Silversmithing Trade”; short-term fellowship.
Sue Johnson, Professor of Art; St. Mary’s College of Maryland; “Woman, as Advertised”; maker-creator fellowship.
Aditi Khare, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Alberta; “Rethinking the Indian Textile Network under British Colonial Systems: A Material Culture Analysis, c. 1750-1860”; short-term fellowship.
Kathryn Lasdow, Assistant Professor and Director of the Public History Concentration; Suffolk University; “Wharfed Out: Improvement and Inequity on the Early American Urban Waterfront”; William Seale short-term fellowship.
Jason Luther, Assistant Professor; Rowan University; “Assembling an Archive: Material-Rhetorical Methods and The Saul Zalesch Collection of American Ephemera”; short-term fellowship.
Maura Lucking, University of California, Los Angeles; “American Artisan: Design and Race-Making on the Industrial Campus, 1866-1924”; postdoctoral fellowship.
Alexandra Macdonald, Ph.D. Candidate; William & Mary; “The Social Life of Time in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660-1830”; dissertation fellowship.
Isabel Oleas-Mogollón, Independent Scholar; “Imperial Power and Christian Triumph: Reflective Surfaces and Religious Visuality in Eighteenth-Century Quito”; short-term fellowship.
Joann Quiñones, Assistant Professor; Alfred University; “Americannoiseries”; maker-creator fellowship.
Gina Siepel, Lecturer in Studio Art Foundations; Mount Holyoke College; “To Understand a Tree”; maker-creator fellowship.
Meg Toth, Professor; Manhattan College; “Domestic Warfare: Militant Home Economics in Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s WWII Fiction”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Van Horn, Associate Professor; University of Delaware; “Base Metals: The Anti-Black Interior (1700-1900)”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Xinguo Wang, Independent Scholar and Woodworking Artisan; “Going Local, Then and Now: Winterthur’s American Furniture Collection Meets ‘Original America’ Table Tennis Blades”; maker-creator fellowship.
Marina Wells, Ph.D. Candidate; Boston University; “Making Men from Whales: The Visual Culture of Gender and Whaling in New England, 1814-1861″; dissertation fellowship.
Omolara Williams McCallister, Independent Scholar; “Learning from Our Past, Designing for Our Future”; maker-creator fellowship.
2020-2021
William Averyt, Associate Professor Emeritus; University of Vermont; “The Winterthur Triangle: The Development of a Foundation Narrative”; short-term fellowship.
Brigitte Bailey, Professor; University of New Hampshire; “Antebellum City Texts: Periodical Print Culture and Emergent U.S. Metropolitan Spaces”; short-term fellowship.
Katherine Brelje, Ph.D. Candidate; Temple University; “Care, Consumption, and Awe: A Relational Plant Ethic of Care”; short-term fellowship.
Angela Burnley, Independent Scholar; “Following the Footsteps of Florence Montgomery: Expanding & Changing Textile Definitions through Current Research”; short-term fellowship.
Caylin Carbonell, Ph.D. Candidate; William & Mary; “Laboring Lives: Households, Dependence, and Power in Colonial New England”; short-term fellowship.
Nora Ellen Carleson, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “The Vernacular Politics of American Dress, 1880-1930”; dissertation fellowship.
David Charles Chioffi, Professor; J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas and Cynthia Nourse Thompson, Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs in Book Arts & Printmaking and Studio Arts; University of the Arts; “The Vestige”; maker-creator fellowship.
Alice Crossley, Senior Lecture in English Literature; University of Lincoln; “Ephemeral Sentiment: Identity and Emotion in Nineteenth-Century Valentines”; short-term fellowship.
Dan Daly, Independent Scholar; “The Portable Theater Project”; maker-creator fellowship.
Camille Marie Davis, Ph.D. Candidate; Southern Methodist University; “Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraiture in Constructing the Nascent Identity of American Leaders”; short-term fellowship.
Andrea Dietz, Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies; GWU Corcoran School of the Arts & Design; “We are not among the dead”; maker-creator fellowship.
Steffi Dippold, Associate Professor; Kansas State University; “Biologies and Ethnographies of the Book: Deciphering Indigenous Artifact Languages of Early American Bookmaking”; short-term fellowship.
Rob Finn, Independent Scholar; “Winterthur Tree Portraits”; maker-creator fellowship.
Catriona Fisk, Casual Academic; University of Technology Sydney; “Material Lives and Maternal Bodies: Repositioning the History and Invention of Maternity Fashion 1750-1950”; short-term fellowship.
Jean Franzino, Independent Scholar; “Dis-Union: Disability, Narrative, and the American Civil War”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Caroline Gillaspie, Ph.D. Candidate; CUNY Graduate Center; “Delicious Libations: Representing the Nineteenth-Century Brazil-US Coffee Trade”; dissertation fellowship.
Mariah Gruner, Graduate Student; Boston University; “Stitching Political Selfhood, Materializing Gender: The Political Uses of American Women’s Decorative Needlework, 1820-1920”; short-term fellowship.
Andrew Hart, Assistant Professor of Architecture; Thomas Jefferson University College of Architecture and the Built Environment; “Reimagining Piranesi in the American Landscape”; maker-creator fellowship.
Yiyun Huang, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; “The Chinese Origins of Medicinal Tea: Global Culture Transfer and A Vast Early America”; short-term fellowship.
Leslie Koren, Assistant Professor of Media Arts; Robert Morris University and Adam Castelli, Architect; CannonDesign; “Pioneering Landscapes: Marian Cruger Coffin’s Life and Career”; maker-creator fellowship.
Fernando Arroyo Lopez, Doctoral Student; University of Mississippi; “American Hotel Lobby Design of the 20th Century”; short-term fellowship.
Shannan Mason, Ph.D. Candidate; Southern Illinois University; “John Bartram 18th Century Merchant of Nature”; short-term fellowship.
Morgan McCullough, Ph.D. Candidate; William & Mary; “Material Bodies: Race, Gender, and Women in the Early American South”; short-term fellowship.
Elissa Myers, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Queen’s College; “Crafting Girlhoods”; postdoctoral fellowship.
Rebecca Olsen, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Domestic Ecology: Household Management and Environmental Entanglement in Nineteenth-Century British Literature”; dissertation fellowship.
Benjamin Parker, Visiting Assistant Professor; Gettysburg College; “American Educational Iconography: National Symbolism in the Architectural Ornamentation of Public Schools”; short-term fellowship.
Gordon Peteran, Professor; O.C.A.D. University; “Historical Contemporary”; maker-creator fellowship.
Carol Petrucci, Independent Scholar; “Civil Intolerance: Opening the Past to Change the Present”; maker-creator fellowship.
Lars Preisser, Independent Scholar; “Famillionaire Matters”; maker-creator fellowship.
Andrew Raftery, Professor of Printmaking; Rhode Island School of Design; “Wallpaper Research”; maker-creator fellowship.
Eleanor Richards, Artist; Penland School of Craft; “The Highboy’s Understory: Deconstructing the Icon”; Decorative Arts Trust maker-creator fellowship.
Allison Robinson, Doctoral Candidate; University of Chicago; “The Political Biography of Dolls: Pedagogy and Reform through Work Project Administration Programing, 1933-1946”; short-term fellowship.
Andrea Rosen, Curator; Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont; “Wood Gaylor, Primitivism, and American Folk Art”; short-term fellowship.
Fiona Lindsey Shen, Director; Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, Chapman University; “Pearls and Remembrance”; short-term fellowship.
Natalia Vieyra, Maher Curatorial Fellow of American Art, Harvard Art Museums; “Black Women’s Labor and the Atlantic Tortoiseshell Trade in the Work of Camille Pissarro”; short-term fellowship.
Katharine Wells, Assistant Professor; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; “Uncanny Revivals: Designing Early America during the Rise of Fascism”; short-term fellowship.
Elisabeth Yang, Ph.D. Candidate; Rutgers University; “Constructing the Moral Infant in American Medical and Scientific Discourse”; dissertation fellowship.
2019-2020
Lauren Frances Adams, Associate Professor of Art; Maryland Institute College of Art; “Décor for Dissenters: Protest and the Americana Way”; maker-creator fellowship.
Indranil Banerjie, Independent Scholar; “Influence of 18th English Cabinetmakers on India”; short-term fellowship.
Kristen E. Beales, Ph.D. Candidate; William & Mary; “Thy Will Be Done: Merchants and Religion in Early America, 1720-1815”; short-term fellowship.
George Boudreau, Senior Research Associate; McNeil Center for Early American Studies; “‘Telling the Story:’ Objects, Spaces, Material Culture and the Interpretation Presentation of Early America’s History”; short-term fellowship.
Steven Robert Brown, Independent Teacher; “Investigation into Classical Proportioning in Eighteenth Century Furniture”; short-term fellowship.
Kristen Brownell, Ph.D. Candidate; Claremont Colleges; “The Early American Bookcase: Narrator of Identity”; short-term fellowship.
Camden Burd, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Rochester; “The Ornament of Empire: Nurserymen and the Making of the American Landscape”; short-term fellowship.
Alicia Carroll, Associate Professor; Auburn University; “Sacred Groves: Local Ecologies in Victorian Literature and Culture”; short-term fellowship.
Chloe Chapin, Ph.D. Candidate; Harvard University; “Peacocks to Penguins: the Ubiquitous Uniformity of Male Evening Dress”; short-term fellowship.
Frank J. Cirillo, Bradley Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow; Nau Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia; “The Abolitionist Civil War: Antislavery Reformers and the Fate of the Republic”; short-term fellowship.
Felicia Cooper, Outreach Programs Coordinator; Bakken Museum; “The Moon Lady: Edna Cooke Shoemaker’s Life and Work”; maker-creator fellowship.
Theresa Downing, Ph.D. Candidate and Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow; University of Minnesota; “Vulnerable Materials, Vulnerable Bodies: Horsehair and Infestation in Ann Hamilton’s tropos and Historical American Domestic Objects”; short-term fellowship.
Molly Duggins, Lecturer in Art History and Theory; National Art School; “Albums and Empire in the Nineteenth Century”; short-term fellowship.
Freya Gowrley, Post Doctoral Fellow; University of Derby; “Collage before Modernism: Art & Identity in Britain & North America, 1680-1912”; short-term fellowship.
Christopher Grant, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Chicago; “Crafting Community: Race, Creative Labor, and Everyday Aesthetics in the Creole Faubourgs of New Orleans, 1790-1865”; short-term fellowship.
Kimberly Hall and Justin Hardison, Nottene Studio; “Wallpaper Stories”; maker-creator fellowship.
Amy Huang, Ph.D. Candidate; Brown University; “Nineteenth-Century Secrecy and Theatrical Disorientation”; dissertation fellowship.
Erica Lome, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Heirlooms of Tomorrow: Crafting and Consuming Colonial Reproduction Furniture, 1890-1945”; dissertation fellowship.
Sharon C. Mehrman, Designer & Furniture Maker; Sharon C. Mehrman Woodworking; “Technology & Woodworking in America’s Industrial Satellites, 1840-1890”; short-term fellowship.
Claire Meldrum, Instructional Designer, Online Learning & Development; Mohawk College; “Anna Katharine Green: A Biography”; short-term fellowship.
Deirdre Murphy, Artist/Visiting Assistant Professor; Lehigh University; “Absence / Presence: Audubon’s Birds”; maker-creator fellowship.
Elaine Ng, Independent Artist; “But Where Are You Really From? An Ecological Fingerprint of Place”; maker-creator fellowship.
Erin Pauwels, Assistant Professor of Art History; Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University; “Napoleon Sarony and the Art of Living Pictures: American Photography’s Intermedial History”; postdoctoral fellowship.
Marika Plater, Ph.D. Candidate; Rutgers University; “Escaping New York: An Environmental History of Working-Class Leisure”; dissertation fellowship.
Alka Raman, Ph.D. Candidate; London School of Economics and Political Science; “Learning from the muse: Indian cotton textiles and British industrialisation”; dissertation fellowship.
Ashley Rattner, Postdoctoral Fellow; East Tennessee State University; “‘We have been with you more than one hundred years, and are still not understood’: Framing Fantasies of the Shaker-Tolstoy Correspondence”; short-term fellowship.
Rebecca Rukeyser, Guest Faculty; Bard College Berlin; “Information Flow in Domestic Spaces: The Spread of Scandal in 18th Century Sitting Room Culture”; maker-creator fellowship.
Cynthia Smith, Ph.D. Candidate; Miami University; “Sentimental Sailors: Rescue and Conversion in Antebellum U.S. Literature”; short-term fellowship.
Rebecca Szantyr, Ph.D. Candidate; Brown University; “Nicolino Calyo: A Wider View of American Art, 1833-1855”; short-term fellowship.
Amanda Thatch, MFA Candidate; University of Wisconsin, School of Human Ecology; “Books and Textiles, Structure and Content”; maker-creator fellowship.
Nathan Tye, Assistant Professor; University of Nebraska at Kearney; “The Far Goer: Jack Taylor, Thoreau, and the Meaning of Walking, 1890s-1920s”; short-term fellowship.
Stefania Urist, Independent Artist; “Research Garden Architecture for Sculpture Garden Installations”; maker-creator fellowship.
Pamela F. Wik-Grimm, Independent Author; “Online GIS database of ship log data and associated contextual materials”; maker-creator fellowship.
2018-2019
Rachel Thayer Boothby, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Everything but the Squeal: The Material Afterlife of the Pig in Modern America”; dissertation fellowship.
David Bosse, Librarian and Curator of Maps; Historic Deerfield; “To Give a Pleasing Effect: Manual Coloring in Historical Context”; short-term fellowship.
Katee Boyle, Multidisciplinary Artist; “Clothing as Necessary Armour, The Wear and Tear of Dress Codes of 17th Century through Present Day”; maker-creator fellowship.
Lydia Mattice Brandt, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina; “The Antebellum Plantation in Popular American Visual Culture”; short-term fellowship.
Annie Coggan, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, New York School of Design; Principal, Coggan Crawford Architects; “Didactic Decorative Object on the theme of Winterthur’s Scrapbook”; maker-creator fellowship.
Basil Considine, Visiting Faculty in Music and Graduate Writing Coordinator; University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; “The Costs of Domestic Music Making in the Early American Republic between Revolution and Civil War (1775-1865)”; short-term fellowship.
Brett Culbert, Ph.D. Candidate; Harvard University; “Britain’s Imperial Prospects and the Aesthetic Origins of Scenographia Americana (1725-1775)”; dissertation fellowship.
Elissa Edwards, Artistic Director for Elan Ensemble; Hammond-Harwood House Museum; “Beyond Just ‘A Lady with a Harp’: Illuminating and Contextualizing Female Musicians in the Early American Republic”; maker-creator fellowship.
Daniel Feinberg, Assistant Professor of Design and Sculpture; Berea College; “Pavement|Adorned”; maker-creator fellowship.
Elyse D. Gerstenecker, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Virginia; “In Some Way Southern: Lycett Studios, Newcomb Pottery, and Design in the New South”; short-term fellowship.
Rebecca Gilbert, Independent Artist represented by The Print Center; Adjunct Faculty, The University of the Arts; Adjunct Faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art; “Visions of Plenty: Observation, Perception, Illusion, and Reverie”; maker-creator fellowship.
Carrie Glenn, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “The Revolutionary Atlantic of Elizabeth Beauveau and John Joseph Borie: Commerce, Vulnerability and U.S. Connections with French Atlantic, 1780-1820”; dissertation fellowship.
Reed Gochberg, Lecturer, History and Literature; Harvard University; “A House of Ideas: Museums, Science, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature”; short-term fellowship.
Jessica Harvey, Photographer/Artist; the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony Archive; “Arrows of the Dawn”; maker-creator fellowship.
Arlene Hutton, Faculty; The Barrow Group Theatre Company; “The Shakers of Mount Lebanon Will Hold a Peace Conference This Month”; short-term fellowship.
Ana M. Lopez, Associate Professor; University of North Texas; “You See AC”; maker-creator fellowship.
Amy H. McAuley, Owner; Oculus Fine Carpentry; “18th-Century Door Joinery”; short-term fellowship.
Christina Michelon, Independent Scholar; “Printcraft: Making with Mass Images in Nineteenth-Century America”; postdoctoral fellowship.
Patrick Morgan, Ph.D. Candidate; Duke University; “Manifesting Vertical Destiny: Geology, Reform, and the Stratified Earth in American Literature, Long Nineteenth Century”; short-term fellowship.
Dawn Odell, Associate Professor; Lewis & Clark College; “Chinese Art in the Early United States”; short-term fellowship.
Heather Ossandon, Visiting Assistant Professor; Delaware State University; “The Communal Bowl”; maker-creator fellowship.
Colin Patrick Rydell, Ph.D. Candidate; The University of Chicago; “Alcohol in the Garden of Eden: The Cider Boom in England, 1650-1763”; short-term fellowship.
Elizabeth Schmidt, Ph.D. Candidate; University of California, Santa Barbara; “Food Anxiety and the Development of Colonial Hybrid Identities in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic”; short-term fellowship.
Kimia Shahi, Ph.D. Candidate; Princeton University; “Margin, Surface, Depth: Picturing the Contours of the Marine in Nineteenth-Century America”; short-term fellowship.
Kimberly Sherman, Ph.D. Candidate; University of St. Andrews; “‘We literally die daily’: Disease, Death, and the Remaking of Families in the American South, 1680-1820”; short-term fellowship.
Rebecca K. Shrum, Associate Professor; Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI); “Bringing Probate Inventories into the Digital Realm: A Re-imagination of the Work of Alice Hanson Jones”; short-term fellowship.
Kacey Stewart, Graduate Student; University of Delaware; “The Aesthetics of Classification: Field Guides and Travel Narratives”; short-term fellowship.
Lindsay Wells, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Plant-Based Art: Indoor Gardening and the Aesthetic Movement, 1860-1900”; dissertation fellowship.
Courtney Wilder, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; “Novel Impressions in Printed Textiles”; dissertation fellowship.
Jordan Michael Wingate, Ph.D. Candidate; University of California, Los Angeles; “The Periodicals Origins of the American Self”; short-term fellowship.
Elisabeth M. Yang, Ph.D. Candidate; Rutgers University; “Constructing the Moral Infant in American Medical and Scientific Discourse, 1850s-1920s”; short-term fellowship.
Madeline Lee Zehnder, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Virginia; “Unsettling Miniatures: Reality, Scale, and Crises of Representation in America, 1790-1850”; short-term fellowship.
Bo Zhang, Assistant Professor; Oklahoma State University; “Chinese Influences on the Designed Landscapes in the United States, From 1860 to 1940”; short-term fellowship.
2017-2018
Michelle Anderson, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Home Away From Home: Temporary Housing and American Families”; short-term fellowship.
Tabitha Baker, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Warwick; “The Embroidery Trade in Eighteenth-Century France”; dissertation fellowship.
Lisa Binkley, Adjunct Professor; Queen’s University; “Textiles, Needlework, Design: Unstitching the Mystique of the Baltimore Album Quilts”; short-term fellowship.
Janine Yorimoto Boldt, Ph.D. Candidate, The College of William & Mary; “The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia”; short-term fellowship.
PJ Carlino, Ph.D. Candidate; Boston University; “Made American: Industrial Design and Public Furniture, 1830-1930”; dissertation fellowship.
Stephanie Carpenter, Lecturer; Michigan Technological University; “Many and Wide Separations: Two Novellas”; maker-creator fellowship.
Tara Cederholm, Head of Curatorial Services and Curator, The Crosby Company; Alyce Perry Englund, Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Christine Thomson, Conservator and Principal, Decorative Arts Conservation LLC.; “Reevaluation of American Japanned Furniture in Context, 1700-1760”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Chuong, Doctoral Candidate; Harvard University; “Surface Experiments in Early America”; short-term fellowship.
Ben Davidson, Ph.D. Candidate; New York University; “Freedom’s Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation”; dissertation fellowship.
Dan Du, Visiting Assistant Professor; Wake Forest University; “Behind the Teacup: American Tea Consumption in the Nineteenth Century”; short-term fellowship.
Eitan Freedenberg, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Rochester; “Architectural Reproduction and the American Industrial Landscape, 1900-1950”; dissertation fellowship.
Elisabeth Gernerd, Guest Lecturer; University of Glasgow; “Têtes to Tails: Eighteenth-Century Underwear and Accessories in Britain and Colonial America”; short-term fellowship.
Rachel Gotlieb, Adjunct Curator; Gardiner Museum; “Canadian Colonialism Served as a British Dish”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer A. Greenhill, Associate Professor of Art History; University of Southern California, Los Angeles; “The Commercial Imagination: American Illustration and the Materialities of the Market, 1890-1930”; short-term fellowship.
Nalleli Guillen, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “‘Round the World Every Evening: Panoramic Spectacles and Entertainment Culture within the Transatlantic Antebellum United States”; short-term fellowship.
Valerie Hegarty, Artist; “Creation of new work inspired by Winterthur collection”; maker-creator fellowship.
Christopher Herbert, Doctoral Fellow; The Julliard School; “The 1747 Song of the Lonely Turtledove of Ephrata, Pennsylvania: a Study of America’s First Music Theory Treatise and its Accompanying Hymns and Motets”; short-term fellowship.
Joseph Larnerd, Ph.D. Candidate; Stanford University; “‘The Cut Glass Age’: Crystallizations of American Culture in Cut Glass, 1876-1920”; dissertation fellowship.
Liu Mengyu, Ph.D. Candidate; Tsinghua University; “Scientific investigation on Pigments in 18th-19th Century Chinese Export Painting”; short-term fellowship.
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Professor; Wellesley College; “At Home Abroad: Anne Whitney and American Women Artists in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy”; short-term fellowship.
Catherine O’Hara, Ph.D. Candidate; Belfast School of Art, Ulster University; “‘Irish Linen Direct – Belfast to any point in the United States’: Direct Selling Irish Linen to the Affluent American Consumer”; short-term fellowship.
Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Roots/Routes: Spirituality and Modern Mobility in American Art, 1900-1945”; short-term fellowship.
Judith Ridner, Associate Professor of History; Mississippi State University; “Clothing the Babel: The Material Culture of Ethnic Identity in Early America”; short-term fellowship.
Rich Saltzberg, MFA Candidate; Florida Atlantic University; “The Saltzbergs: A Journey in Wood;” maker-creator fellowship.
Sean “Purl” Samoheyl, Chairmaker; Twin Oaks Community; “Labor and Function: Shakers in comparison to a Modern Utopian Society”; maker-creator fellowship.
Blevin Shelnutt, Postdoctoral Lecturer in English; New York University; “Print Capital: Broadway and U.S. Literary Production, 1836-1860”; postdoctoral fellowship.
Rachel Walker, Ph.D. Candidate and Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellow; University of Maryland; “A Beautiful Mind: Faces, Beauty, and Brainsin the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1780-1860”; short-term fellowship.
2016-2017
Johanna Amos, Assistant Adjunct Professor; Queen’s University; “Kashmiri and ‘Indian’ Shawls in North America”; short-term fellowship.
Jessica Blake, Ph.D. Candidate; University of California at Davis; “A Taste for Disaster: Racial Formation and the Garment Markets of Revolutionary-era New Orleans”; dissertation fellowship.
Jamie Bolker, Ph.D. Candidate; Fordham University; “Lost and Found: Wayfinding in Early American Literature”; dissertation fellowship.
Jamie L. Brummitt, Ph.D. Candidate; Duke University; “Protestant Relics: The Politics of Religion & the Art of Mourning in the Early American Republic”; short-term fellowship.
William L. Coleman, Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art; Washington University in St. Louis; “Painting Houses: The Domestic Landscape of the Hudson River School”; postdoctoral fellowship.
Nicholas P. Cooley, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Iowa; “’Extensions of Ourselves’: Hand Tools and the Construction of Nature in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, 1823-1873”; short-term fellowship.
Nika Elder, Visiting Assistant Professor, Modern & Contemporary Art; University of Florida; “William Harnett’s Curious Objects”; short-term fellowship.
Bryce Evans, Senior Lecturer in History; Liverpool Hope University; “Ethnic Tradition and American Nation-Building: Evidence from the Downs Collection and Archive”; short-term fellowship.
Ernest Freeberg, Professor; University of Tennessee; “Origin of Animal Rights in Gilded Age America”; short-term fellowship.
Sonia Hazard, Ph.D. Candidate; Duke University; “The Touch of the Word: Evangelical Cultures of Print in Antebellum America”; dissertation fellowship.
Fionnuala Hart Gerrity, Collections Care Conservation Technician; Harvard University Library; “Exercise Books at Winterthur: A Case Study in Early American Blankbooks”; short-term fellowship.
Freya Gowrley, Visiting Lecturer, History of Art Department; University of Edinburgh; “Assembling the Shelf: Collage and Identity, 1770-1900”; short-term fellowship.
Rachel Gross, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Wisconsin, Madison; “From Buckskin to Gore-Tex: Consumption as a Path to Mastery in Twentieth-Century American Wilderness Recreation”; short-term fellowship.
Kristine Juncker, Independent Scholar; “Addressing Stereotypes: Cuban Diasporic Artists, Photographic Postcard Media and Responses to the Past”; short-term fellowship.
Kelly Kean, Ph.D. Candidate; University of California, Davis; “Farmers Plots to Backlot Stewpots: Creating the Culinary Creolism of Urban Antebellum Charleston”; short-term fellowship.
Laura C. Keim, Curator; Stenton Museum & University of Pennsylvania; “Hornor’s Blue Book, Philadelphia Furniture: A Colonial Revival Icon Reconsidered”; short-term fellowship.
Margaretta M. Lovell, Professor; University of California, Berkeley; “The Cabinetmaker’s Apprentice”; short-term fellowship.
Joseph Manca, Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art and Art History, and Professor of Art History; Rice University; “Shaker Vision: Forms, Beauty, and Belief”; short-term fellowship.
Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, Arts and Humanities Research Council PhD Candidate; Centre for the Study of the Art and Antiques Market, School of History of Art, The University of Leeds; “’Sèvres-mania’: The History of Collecting French Sèvres Porcelain in Britain 1802-1882”; short-term fellowship.
Krystyna Michael, Ph.D. Candidate; City University of New York Graduate Center; “The Urban Domestic: Domesticity, Space and Aesthetics in 19th and 20th Century American Literature and Culture”; short-term fellowship.
William M. Motley, Independent Researcher; “Chinese Export Porcelains en grisaille and their European print sources”; short-term fellowship.
Del-Louise Moyer, Independent Scholar and Research Consultant; “Heavenly Fraktur: How Fraktur Influenced Moravian and Pennsylvania German Material Culture”; short-term fellowship.
Kate Mulry, Assistant Professor; California State University, Bakersfield; “Unwholesome Tinctures: Inoculation and Questions of Heredity in the Early Eighteenth-Century Anglo Atlantic”; short-term fellowship.
Kelli Nelson, Ph.D. Candidate; Mississippi State University; “Fearing the Reaper: Religion, Nature, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America”; short-term fellowship.
Amanda Pullan, Cultural Engagement Fellow for Edwardian Postcard Project; Lancaster University; “Women’s Cultural Literacy and Domestic Textiles in the Atlantic World, c. 1600-1800”; short-term fellowship.
Molly Reed, Ph.D. Candidate; Cornell University; “Ecology of Utopia: Environmental Discourse and Practice in Antebellum Communal Settlements”; short-term fellowship.
Jaclyn Schultz, Ph.D. Candidate; University of California, Santa Cruz; “C is for Consumer: American Childhood and the Rise of Commodity Capitalism, 1850-1900”; short-term fellowship.
Amy Sopcak-Joseph, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Connecticut; “’Converting Rags into Gold’: Godey’s Lady’s Book, Female Consumers, and the Business of Periodical Publishing in the Nineteenth Century”; short-term fellowship.
Sarah Elaine Thomas, Ph.D. Candidate; College of William and Mary; “Objects of the Early Southern Backcountry: The People of Shenandoah County and their Material Culture”; short-term fellowship.
Caroline Wigginton, Assistant Professor of English; University of Mississippi; “Nature’s Art: Commodities, Materials Culture, and Books in Early America”; short-term fellowship.
2015-2016
Mary C. Beaudry, Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy; Boston University; “Gastronomical Archaeology: Food, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Dining”; short-term fellowship.
Nicole Belolan, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861;” dissertation fellowship.
Carla Cevasco, Ph.D Candidate; Harvard University; “Feast, Fast, and Flesh: The Violence of Hunger in Colonial New England and New France”; short-term fellowship.
Ben Davidson, Ph.D. Candidate; New York University; “Freedom’s Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation”; short-term fellowship.
Lynn Edgar, Independent Scholar; “Bespoke Children’s Clothing: Evidence of Children’s Clothing in 18th Century Tailor’s Daybooks”; short-term fellowship.
Jeannine Falino, Adjunct Curator; Museum of Arts and Design; “Gilded Age in America”; short-term fellowship.
Katrina E. Greene, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Modern American Intermediality, 1880-1930: Painting, Etching, Photography, Sculpture, Textiles”; short-term fellowship.
Diana Greenwald, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Oxford; “Distinction and Development: Economic and Social Determinants of Artistic Taste in the United States, 1830-1880”; dissertation fellowship.
Kerry Hackett, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Central Lancashire; “Shaker medicine in New York State: 1815-1860”; short-term fellowship.
Amy E. Hughes, Associate Professor and Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies; Brooklyn College, City University New York; “An Actor’s Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America”; short-term fellowship.
Laura Turner Igoe, Postdoctoral Research Associate; Princeton University Art Museum; “Art and Ecology in the Early Republic”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Elizabeth Keslacy, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Michigan; “A New Kind of Design: The Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (1896-1976)”; dissertation fellowship.
Rebecca J. Keyel, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Knitting for Victory: Women’s Volunteerism in the World Wars”; short-term fellowship.
Michael Kideckel, Ph.D. Candidate; Columbia University; “When Food Became Natural: Industrial Food Culture and the Marketing of Reform”; short-term fellowship.
Cecilia Macheski, Professor Emerita; LaGuardia Community College, The City University of New York; “Transporting Venice: Americans Abroad 1865-1940”; short-term fellowship.
Thomas Luke Manget, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Georgia; “Root Diggers and Herb Gatherers: An Environmental History of the Botanical Drug Industry in the United States”; short-term fellowship.
Chantal Meslin-Perrier, Conservateur Général du Patrimoine Chercheur associé à l’INHA; Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art; “The Art of Dining in the United States from the 17th Century up to 1936”; short-term fellowship.
Katherine Miller, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Virginia; “Ammi B. Young and the U. S. Office of the Supervising Architect, 1852-62”; dissertation fellowship.
Michael Nix, Independent Scholar; “Norwich textiles and the transatlantic trade with North America, 1750–1820”; short-term fellowship.
Andrea Pappas, Associate Professor of Art History; Santa Clara University; “Embroidering the Landscape in Early America”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Laura Ping, Ph.D. Candidate; The Graduate Center, City University of New York; “Throwing off ‘the Drapery:’ Women and the Bloomer Costume, 1820- 1900”; short-term fellowship.
Laura Soderberg, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Pennsylvania; “Vicious Infants: Antisocial Childhoods and the Politics of Population in the Antebellum United States”; short-term fellowship.
Sarah Templier, Ph.D. Candidate; Johns Hopkins University; “Between Merchants, Shopkeepers, Tailors and Thieves: Circulating and Consuming Clothes, Textiles and Fashion in Eighteenth-Century North America”; short-term fellowship.
Margaret A. Toth, Associate Professor of English; Manhattan College; “Bric-a-brac and Textiles: Consumer Orientalism at the Turn into the Twentieth Century”; short-term fellowship.
Amy C. Wallace, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Toronto; “Towards a Unity of the Arts and Life: Artistic Communities in the United States, 1870–1930”; short-term fellowship.
Katherine Wheeler, Assistant Professor of Practice; University of Miami School of Architecture; “Graphic Intercessors: The Architectural Working Drawing”; short-term fellowship.
Edward E. Wise III, Independent Scholar; “The Maverick’s Maverick: Hervey White and the Spirit of Woodstock”; short-term fellowship.
2014-2015
Zara Anishanslin, Assistant Professor; City University of New York; “Producing Revolution: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution”; short-term fellowship.
Nicole Belolan, Ph.D. candidate; University of Delaware; “Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861”; short-term fellowship.
Claire Louise Blakey, Assistant Curator of Ceramics; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery; “Bringing China to Stoke-on-Trent: A Collection of Early 20th-Century Porcelain at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery”; short-term fellowship.
Alison Boyd, Ph.D. candidate; Northwestern University; “Ensemble Modernism: Orchestrating Art and People at the Barnes Foundation”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Chuong, Graduate student; Harvard University; “Glass as Supplemental Architecture in Early America”; short-term fellowship.
Amber M. Clawson, Graduate research assistant; Middle Tennessee State University; “Symbols of America’s ‘Backcountry’ Republic: Tennessee’s ‘Rope and Tassel’ Furniture”; short-term fellowship.
Michael D’Alessandro, Ph.D. candidate; Boston University; “Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Class in Popular American Literature and Theatre, 1835-1875”; dissertation fellowship.
Jennifer Dorsey, Associate Professor of History; Siena College; “Tending the Empire: The Life of George Holcomb (1791-1856)”; short-term fellowship.
Heidi Louise Egginton, Graduate student; Newnham College, University of Cambridge; “Cultures of Amateur Antique and Curio Collecting in Britain, c.1868-1939”; short-term fellowship.
Katherine Fama, Volkswagen Postdoctoral Research Fellow; John F. Kennedy School of North-American Studies, Free University Berlin, and Washington University, St. Louis; “The Literary Architecture of Singleness: American Fiction and the Production of Women’s Independent Space, 1880-1929”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Lydia Garver, Principal Investigator, Archaeology Project at the Speaker’s House; Indiana University, Bloomington; “The Pastor’s House”; short-term fellowship.
Ann Smart Martin, Stanley and Polly Stone (Chipstone) Professor and Director, Material Culture Program; University of Wisconsin, Madison; “Banish the Night: Domestic Illumination and Reflection before the Light Bulb”; short-term fellowship.
Cheryl-Lynn May, Curatorial Assistant; Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University; “Undressing the Dressed Portrait Miniature: The History, Context, and Significance of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Collage Portraiture”; short-term fellowship.
Christina Michelon, Ph.D. candidate; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; “Prints & Personalization: Negotiating Reproducibility and Uniqueness in the Nineteenth-Century American Home”; short-term fellowship.
Audrey Millet, Ph.D. candidate; University Paris 8 and University Neuchâtel, Switzerland; “Towards a Global History of the ‘Factory Design’: Draughtsmen between Europe and the North American East Coast in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”; short-term fellowship.
Lauren Palmor, Ph.D. candidate; University of Washington; “Visualizing Age in Victorian Britain and America: A Typological Survey”; dissertation fellowship.
William Riehm, Assistant Professor; Mississippi State University; “‘In-between’ Creole and Anglo-American: Material Culture following the Louisiana Purchase”; short-term fellowship.
Karen Sanchez-Eppler, L. Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English; Amherst College; “In the Archives of Childhood: Personal and Historical Pasts”; short-term fellowship.
Amber Shaw, Assistant Professor; Coe College; “The Fabric of the Nation: Textiles, Nationhood, and Identity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”; short-term fellowship.
Julia A. Sienkewicz; Assistant Professor; Duquesne University; “Epic Landscapes: Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s Virginian Watercolors, 1795-1799”; short-term fellowship.
D. Albert Soeffing, Independent Scholar; “The Career of Allen Leonard, Artist, Silversmith and Die-Sinker and His Production of American Architectural Card Cases: Social Aspects of Visiting Card Culture in Nineteenth-Century America”; short-term fellowship.
Whitney Stewart, Ph.D. Candidate; Rice University; “The Politics of Black Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Streb, Associate Professor & Curator; Juniata College Museum of Art; “The Art and Science of Portrait Miniatures”; short-term fellowship.
Yolanda Theunissen, Curator, Osher Map Library; Director, Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine; “Mastering Spatial Literacy with Pictorial Maps, Games and Toys from 1750 to the Present”; short-term fellowship.
Amy Torbert, Ph.D. candidate; University of Delaware; “Going Places: The Material and Imaginary Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840”; dissertation fellowship.
Rachel Zimmerman, Ph.D. candidate; University of Delaware; “Global Luxuries: Art and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Elite Home in Minas Gerais, Brazil”; dissertation fellowship.
2013-2014
Amanda Casper, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Home Alteration in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865 to 1925”; dissertation fellowship.
Michael Clapper, Associate Professor of Art History; Franklin & Marshall College; “Popular Art in America: Mass Reproduction and Middle-Class Taste”; short-term fellowship.
William L. Coleman, Ph.D. Candidate; University of California, Berkeley; “Thomas Cole’s Buildings: Architecture in Painting and Practice in the Early Republic”; short-term fellowship.
Erin Corrales-Diaz, Ph.D. Candidate; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma and the American Civil War, 1861-1915”; short-term fellowship.
Laurel Daen, Ph.D. Candidate; College of William and Mary; “Civic Capacity and the Constitution of Disability in the Early American Republic”; short-term fellowship.
Alice Dolan, Ph.D. Researcher; University of Hertfordshire, School of Humanities; “Linen and Human Life Cycles: Everyday Experience in England, c. 1680-1810”; short-term fellowship.
Patricia Edmonson, Intergenerational Interpretation Specialist; The Cleveland Museum of Art; “Art & Industry: The Art-in-Trades Club of New York”; short-term fellowship.
Rebecca Lee Fifield, Collections Manager, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; Metropolitan Museum of Art; “Lately Imported: Dress and Self-Fashioning of Female Indentured and Enslaved Servants, 1750-1790” and “The American Institute of Conservation’s Collection Care Network”; short-term fellowship.
Javier Grossutti, Independent Scholar; Department of Humanities, University of Trieste; “The Herter Brothers Firm and the Introduction of Marble Mosaic in America”; short-term fellowship.
Thomas A. Guiler, Doctoral Candidate; Syracuse University; “The Handcrafted Utopia: Arts and Crafts Communities in America’s Progressive Era”; short-term fellowship.
Mary Ann Haagen, Visiting Scholar; Dartmouth College; “The New Hampshire Shakers on Trial, 1848-1849”; short-term fellowship.
Leonie Hannan, Teaching Fellow; University College London; “Material Matters: The Early Modern Home as a Site for Scientific Enquiry”; short-term fellowship.
Christine Henderson, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Connecticut; “The American Literary Imagination & World’s Fairs: 1851-1909”; short-term fellowship.
Martha Libster, Professor of Nursing; Governors State University; “Near and Dear Sisters – The Spirit of Nursing in Antebellum Shaker Communities”; short-term fellowship.
Christopher J. Lukasik, Associate Professor of English and American Studies; Purdue University; “The Image in the Text”; short-term fellowship.
Kirin Makker, Assistant Professor; Hobart and William Smith Colleges; “The Myths of Main Street”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Anna O. Marley, Curator of Historical American Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; “American Impressionism and the Garden, 1889-1920”; short-term fellowship.
John Murphy, Ph.D. Candidate; Northwestern University; “Comrades in Craft: Arts and Crafts Colonies in the United States, 1896-1916”; dissertation fellowship.
Jeff Peachey, Independent Book Conservator; “In-board Bindings and the Beginning of Industrialized Bookbinding in America and England, 1800-1840”; short-term fellowship.
M. Christina Roberts, Registrar; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; “Plant to Print: Modern Methods for the Cultivation and Production of Natural Dyes”; short-term fellowship.
Alexandra Socarides, Assistant Professor; University of Missouri; “The Lyric Pose: Antebellum American Women’s Poetry and the Problem of Recovery”; short-term fellowship.
Rachel A. Snell, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Maine; “‘Woman’s sphere is wherever she makes good’: Domesticity and Anglo-American Women’s Roles, 1790-1860”; short-term fellowship.
Erin Sweeney, Ph.D. Candidate; University of California, Irvine; “Dwelling in Possibility: Spatial Practice and Innovation in the Nineteenth Century American Novel”; dissertation fellowship.
Kristina Taketomo, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Pennsylvania; “Cold, White, and Clean: American Aesthetics and the Modern Refrigerator”; short-term fellowship.
Eric Weichel, Graduate Student; Queen’s University; “‘Whether France Will Be Concerned in It or Not’: Francophilia and Polyculturalism in the Visual and Material Culture of Eighteenth-Century British North America”; short-term fellowship.
2012-2013
Gretchen Voter Abbott, Ph.D. Candidate; Rutgers University; “Nineteenth Century Women’s Experiences of Aging in the United States”; short-term fellowship.
Ellen Avitts, Assistant Professor of Art History; University of Central Washington; “’Doesn’t It Look Like a Happy Place to Live?’ House Merchandising and Ideas of Home”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Christopher P. Barton, Doctoral Candidate; Temple University; “Identity and Improvisation: the Archaeology of Consumption at the African American Community of Timbuctoo, NJ”; dissertation fellowship.
Lynne Zacek Bassett, Independent Curator; American Museum of Textile History; “American Dress in the Romantic Era, 1810-1860”; short-term fellowship.
Sarah Beetham, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917”; dissertation fellowship.
Wendy Bellion, Associate Professor; University of Delaware; “What Statues Remember: Sculpture and Iconoclasm in American History”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Xavier Bonnet, Independent Upholsterer and Upholstery Historian; “From Paris to Philadelphia: Georges Bertault (1733/?) A Major Protagonist for Introduction of French Upholstery Taste and Techniques in late 18th-century America”; short-term fellowship.
Alena Buis, Ph.D. Candidate; Queens University; “Homeliness and Worldliness: Domestic Material Culture in New Netherland and New York, 1600-1725”; dissertation fellowship.
Mara Caden, Ph.D. Candidate; Yale University; “Making Imperial Capitalism: The Process of Manufacturing in the British Empire, 1696-1740”; short-term fellowship.
Noel A. Carmack, Assistant Professor of Art, Drawing & Painting; Utah State University; “Incidents in an Engineer’s Life in the Far West: James R. Maxwell and the Union Pacific Railroad Survey”; short-term fellowship.
Amanda Casper, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Making Home: Altering the Home in Industrial America, 1850-1950”; short-term fellowship.
Justin Clark, Doctoral Candidate; University of Southern California; “Training the Eye: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870”; dissertation fellowship.
Katelyn Crawford, Doctoral Candidate; University of Virginia; “Itinerant Portraits in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World”; short-term fellowship.
Margaretta Frederick, Chief Curator and Curator of the Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Collection; Delaware Art Museum; “‘Products of Artistic Effect’: The Lighting Designs of W.A.S. Benson”; short-term fellowship.
Nancy Green, Gale & Ira Drukier Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs; Herbert Johnson Museum of Art; “Exhibiting Japan”; short-term fellowship.
Stephen Hague, Supernumerary Fellow; Linacre College, Oxford University; “The Gentleman’s House: Material Culture and Social Status in the British Atlantic World, 1680-1770”; short-term fellowship.
Kelli Towers Jasper, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Colorado-Boulder; “Gathering Flowers: Romantic-Era Botanico-Literary Production and the Trans-Atlantic Mediation of Culture”; short-term fellowship.
Shana Klein, Ph.D. Candidate; University of New Mexico; “The Fruits of America: Contextualizing Food in American Still-Life Representation, 1850-1900”; short-term fellowship.
Jay Lemire, M.A. Candidate; Bard Graduate Program; “Vernay, Inc.: A Case Study of the Social History of the American Antiques Market, 1904-1940”; short-term fellowship.
James D. McMahon, Jr., Director; School of History, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; “The Swiss Bank House in Pennsylvania: Constructing Identity in Eighteenth Century Pennsylvania German Rural Vernacular Architecture”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Burek Pierce, Associate Professor; University of Iowa; “Toward a History of the Role of Games and Toys in American Public Libraries”; short-term fellowship.
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Ph.D. Candidate; New York University; “This is What a Feminist Looks Like: The Construction of the New Woman Imagery through Fashion and the Political Culture of American Feminism, 1890-1940”; short-term fellowship.
Sarah Fayen Scarlett, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Taste and Space on College Avenue”; short-term fellowship.
Ashli White, Assistant Professor; University of Miami; “Object Lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic”; short-term fellowship.
Clay Zuba, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Unstable Images: Native American Representation and Imperial Identity, 1676-1861”; short-term fellowship.
2011-2012
Alexandra T. Anderson, M.A. Candidate; Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; “The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony: Landscape, Stewardship, and Aesthetics”; short-term fellowship.
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Ph.D. Candidate; Yale University; “Threads of Empire: Art and The Cotton Trade in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean Worlds, 1780-1900”; dissertation fellowship.
Kelly Brennan Arehart, Graduate Student; College of William and Mary; “Give Up Your Dead: How Business, Technology and Society Separated Americans from their Dearly-Departed, 1790-1930”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Betsworth, Graduate Student; University of South Carolina; “‘Then Came the Peaceful Invasion of the Northerners’: The Impact of Outsiders on Plantation Architecture in Georgetown County, South Carolina”; short-term fellowship.
Susan Hanket Brandt, Ph.D. Candidate; Temple University; “Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830”; short-term fellowship.
Sara Rivers Cofield, Curator of Federal Collections; Maryland Archaeological conservation laboratory at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum; “Bridles, Bosses, Saddles, and Spurs: Interpreting Colonial Horse Equipage in the Archaeological Record”; short-term fellowship.
Kathleen Daly, Graduate Student; Boston University; “Shapely Bodies: The Material Culture of Women’s Health, 1880-1920”; short-term fellowship.
Frederika Eilers, Ph.D. Candidate; McGill University, School of Architecture; “Building Toys and Toying Buildings: Constructing (or domesticating) Children through Blocks, Dollhouses, and Playrooms”; short-term fellowship.
Ernest Freeberg, Distinguished Professor of Humanities; University of Tennessee; “Incandescent America: Electric Light and America’s Culture of Invention”; short-term fellowship.
Kara French, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; “The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America 1780-1850”; dissertation fellowship.
Janice E. Frisch, Doctoral Student; Indiana University; “A Historical Study of Transatlantic Influences on the Emergence of the Block-Style Quilt in the United States”; short-term fellowship.
Christian Goodwillie, Curator of Special Collections; Hamilton College Library; “Biography of Richard McMemar and Critical Edition of Isaac Young’s ‘Concise View’”; short-term fellowship.
Mazie M. Harris, Ph.D. Candidate; Brown University; “Fancy Photography on Broadway, 1859-1882”; short-term fellowship.
Christian Koot, Assistant Professor; Towson University; “The Merchant, the Map and Empire: Augustine Herrman’s America and Cross-Cultural Exchange, 1644-1673”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Erin Leary, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Rochester; “Sowing the Seeds of Nativism and Eugenics in Gardening and the Domestic Arts, 1893-1923”; dissertation fellowship.
Robyn McMillin, Independent Scholar; “Science in the American Style, 1700-1800”; short-term fellowship.
Jean D. Portell, Art conservator, retired; “Biography of Sheldon and Caroline K. Keck”; short-term fellowship.
Josh Probert, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Gilded Religion in the Age of Tiffany”; dissertation fellowship.
Melinda Rabb, Professor; Brown University; “Mimesis Reconsidered: Miniaturization in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture”; short-term fellowship.
Nancy Siegel, Associate Professor; Towson University; “Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic”; short-term fellowship.
Sally Tuckett, Undergraduate Tutor; University of Edinburgh; “Heritage and Design: Scottish Influences on Textiles and Clothing in Nineteenth-Century America”; short-term fellowship.
Catherine Walsh, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Orality in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture”; short-term fellowship.
Emilie Johnson Wheeler, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Virginia; “The Great House and Beyond: Plantation Complexes and Networks in the Antebellum Deep South”; short-term fellowship.
Virginia J. Whelan, Textile conservator in private practice; “A Survey of Original Frame Styles for Philadelphia Needlework (1725-1830)”; short-term fellowship.
Kemble Widmer, Independent scholar; “The Nathaniel Gould Ledgers”; short-term fellowship.
Chi-ming Yang, Assistant Professor; University of Pennsylvania; “Global Culture and the Lives of Objects, 1600-1800”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
2010-2011
Anne Anderson, Research Fellow; University of Exeter, School of English; “‘A Backward Glance: Furnishing with Antiques in the Gilded Age and Beyond”; short-term fellowship.
Ashley Barnes, Ph.D. Candidate; University of California, Berkeley; “An American Love Story: Narrative Ethics and the Novel from Stowe to James”; short-term fellowship.
Jane F. Crosthwaite, Professor of Religion; Mount Holyoke College; “The Divine Book of Holy Mother Wisdom: Construction of a Shaker Sacred Text”; short-term fellowship.
Anna M. Dempsey, Associate Professor of Art History; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; “Working Women Artists: Images of Domesticity and the Construction of American Modernism, 1880-1930”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Christian DuComb, Ph.D. Candidate; Brown University; “From the Meschianza to the Mummers Parade: Racial and Gender Impersonation in Philadelphia”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Elliott, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Virginia; “The Neoclassical Backcountry: Architecture, Material Culture and Hybrid Identities in the American South, 1780-1830”; short-term fellowship.
Ross Fox, Associate Curator, Early Canadian Decorative Arts; Royal Ontario Museum; “Exploring Relationships in Construction and Design Among the Furniture of New England, New York and Montreal, 1790-1820”; short-term fellowship.
Vanessa Habib, Independent Scholar; “Transatlantic Craftsmanship: Scotch Carpets in the American Colonies”; short-term fellowship.
Christina J. Hodge, Senior Curatorial Assistant; Peabody Museum, Harvard University; “A Genteel Revolution: Practical Refinements of New England’s Middling Sorts”; short-term fellowship.
Sarah M. Iepson, Doctoral Candidate; Temple University; “Postmortem Relationships: Death and the Child in Antebellum American Visual Culture”; short-term fellowship.
Sarah Keyes, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Southern California; “Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900”; short-term fellowship.
Melanie Kiechle, Ph.D. Candidate; Rutgers University; “The Air We Breathe: Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air”; short-term fellowship.
Alison Klaum, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Delaware; “Pressing Flowers: The Construction of Nature and the Preservation of Culture in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century American Print”; dissertation fellowship.
Anca I. Lasc, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Southern California; “Publishing the Interior in Nineteenth-Century Paris, 1852-1914”; short-term fellowship.
Whitney A. Martinko, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Virginia; “Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860”; short-term fellowship.
Carol A. Medlicott, Assistant Professor; Northern Kentucky University; “Now By My Motion: the Life Journey of Issachar Bates”; short-term fellowship.
Consuela G. Metzger, Lecturer; University of Austin, School of Information; “The Material Culture of Bound Record-keeping Structures in America before 1860”; short-term fellowship.
Christopher C. Oliver, Ph.D. Candidate; University of Virginia; “Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870”; dissertation fellowship.
Katie A. Pfohl, Ph.D. Candidate; Harvard University; “Abstraction’s Islamic Antecedents: American Modernism and Islamic Art, 1830-1930”; dissertation fellowship.
Madelyn Shaw, Independent Scholar for the American Textile History Museum; “Homefront & Battlefield: The Civil War Through Quilts & Context”; short-term fellowship.
David J. Silverman, Associate Professor; George Washington University; “Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America”; short-term fellowship.
Ryan K. Smith, Associate Professor of History; Virginia Commonwealth University; “Robert Morris’s Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder”; short-term fellowship.
Andrea M. Truitt, Chipstone Project Assistant; University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Neither Inside nor Outside: Cozy Corners and Their Role as Intermediaries of Interiority”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Van Horn, Instructor; Smithsonian/Corcoran History of Decorative Arts; “The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Marie von Möller, Independent Scholar; “Art History and Paintings Conservation in the Twentieth Century”; short-term fellowship.
Bärbel Wöhlke, Doctoral Candidate; Technische Universität Dresden; “From the Boy to the Man: Visualizing Masculinity in American Genre Paintings, 1800-1870”; short-term fellowship.
2009-2010
Matthew Bailey, Doctoral Candidate; Washington University in St. Louis; “Materiality in American Painting”; short-term fellowship.
Alice Barnaby, Doctoral Candidate; University of Exeter; “Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1780-1840”; short-term fellowship.
Christina Bisulca, Doctoral Candidate; University of Arizona; “Reconstructing a Lost N. C. Wyeth Illustration”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Black, Ph.D. Student; University of Southern California; “Branding Trust: Advertising, Legitimacy, and Trademarks in US Popular Culture, 1876-1930”; dissertation fellowship.
Michael Block, Doctoral Candidate; University of Southern California; “New England Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California”; short-term fellowship.
Jennifer Carlquist, M.A. Candidate; Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; “The Antiquarian Career of J. A. Lloyd Hyde: Americana Business as Pleasure”; short-term fellowship.
Laurie Churchman, Assistant Professor of Fine Art; University of Pennsylvania; “The Art and Craft of Sign Painting”; short term fellowship.
Jennifer Egloff, Ph.D. Candidate; New York University; “Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America”; dissertation fellowship.
Robert P. Emlen, University Curator; Brown University; “Picturing the Shakers: Illustrating Shaker Life in the Popular Press of Nineteenth-Century America”; short-term fellowship.
Ernest Freeberg, Associate Professor of History; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; “Incandescent America: A Cultural History of the Light Bulb; short-term fellowship.
Christian Goodwillie, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections; Hamilton College Library; “Hancock Shaker Village Guidebook and Isaac Newton Young’s ‘Concise View’”; short-term fellowship.
Margaret K. Hofer, Curator of Decorative Arts; The New-York Historical Society; “Silver at The New-York Historical Society”; short-term fellowship.
Abigail Lundelius, Doctoral Candidate; University of South Carolina; “Shall We Gather at the Table?”; short-term fellowship.
Aaron McCullough, Doctoral Candidate; Michigan State University; “Masculine Interiors and Transnational Commodities, 1880-1920”; short-term fellowship.
Roderick McDonald, Professor of History; Rider University; “The Ethnography and Pornography of Slavery: Dr. Jonathan Troup’s Journal of Dominica, 1789-1791”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
John Lardas Modern, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies; Franklin & Marshall College; “Haunted Modernity; or, the Metaphysics of Secularism in Antebellum America”; National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship.
Tanya Pohrt, Doctoral Candidate; University of Delaware; “Touring Pictures: The Exhibition of American History Paintings in the Early Republic”; short-term fellowship.
Kate Smith, Doctoral Candidate; University of Warwick; “Eighteenth-Century British Ceramics Industry – Ideas of Skill and Workmanship”; short-term fellowship.
Arden Stern, Doctoral Candidate; University of California, Irvine; “Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface”; short-term fellowship.
Joseph Stubenrauch, Doctoral Candidate; University of Indiana; “Faith in Goods: Evangelicalism, Materiality, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain”; short-term fellowship.
Anne Verplanck, Independent Scholar; “The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880”; short-term fellowship.
Spring Color in the Garden
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| Location | Color | Time of Bloom |
| March Bank | ||
| Galanthus spp. (Snowdrops) | White | January-March |
| Adonis amurensis (Amur Adonis) | Yellow | March |
| Eranthis hyemalis (Winter Aconite) | Yellow | March |
| Chionodoxa spp. (Glory-of-the-Snow) | Blue | March |
| Scilla spp. (Squills) | Blue | March |
| Leucojum vernum (Spring Snowflake) | White | March |
| Crocus spp. and hybrids | Various | March |
| Cornus officinalis (Cornelian-Cherry) | Yellow | March |
| Narcissus spp. and cv. (Daffodils, early) | Yellow | March, April |
| Uvularia grandiflora (Bellwort) | Yellow | April |
| Mertensia virginica (Virginia Bluebell) | Blue | April, May |
| Phlox divaricata (Wild Phlox) | Lavender | April, May |
| Quarry | ||
| Chionodoxa spp. (Glory-of-the-snow) | blue | March |
| Cornus officinalis (Cornelian-Cherry) | yellow | March |
| Narcissus cvs. (Daffodils) | Yellow, white | March, April |
| Primula spp. and hybrids (Candelabra Primroses) | pink, white, peach | May |
| Rhododendron cvs. (Kurume Hybrid Azaleas) | pink red | May |
| Winterhazel Walk | ||
| Corylopsis spp. (Winterhazel) | Yellow | April |
| Rhododendron mucronulatum (Korean R.) | Lavender | April |
| Helleborus spp. (Hellebores) | Various | April |
| Corydalis bulbosa | Lavender | April |
| Primula abchasica (Abkhazian Primrose) | Pink | April |
| Pinetum | ||
| Chaenomeles spp. and cvs. (Flowering Quince) | Various | April |
| Viburnum spp. | Chartreuse, white | April, May |
| Spiraea spp. | White | April |
| Rhododendron spp. and cvs.(Deciduous Azaleas) | Pink, Yellow, Orange | April, May |
| Rhododendron cvs.(Kurume Hybrid Azaleas) | Pinks | May |
| Sundial Garden | ||
| Magnolia spp. and cvs. | White, pink | April |
| Spiraea spp. | White | April |
| Chaenomeles spp. and cvs. (Flowering Quince) | Pink, red | April |
| Prunus spp. and cvs. (Cherries) | Pink | April |
| Viburnum spp. and cvs. | White | April |
| Fothergilla spp. and cvs. | White | April, May |
| Malus cvs. (Crabapples) | Pink | April |
| Exochorda spp. and cvs. (Pearlbushes) | White | April, May |
| Syringa cvs. (Lilacs) | Lavenders, white | May |
| Paulownia tomentosa (Princess Tree) | Lavender | May |
| Azalea Woods | ||
| Anemone apennina (Italian Windflower) | Lavender, white | April |
| Trillium grandiflorum | White | April, May |
| Rhododendron cvs.(Kurume Hybrid Azaleas) | Various | May |
| R. kaempferi (Torch Azalea) | Pinks | May |
| Rhododendron spp. and cvs. | Various | May |
| Hyacinthoides hispanica (Spanish Bluebell) | Blue | May |
| Peony Garden | ||
| Paeonia cvs. (Hybrid tree peonies) | Various | May |
| Paeonia cvs. (Herbaceous peonies) | Various | May |
| Rhododendron cvs. (Kurume Azaleas) | Pink | May |
| Kolkwitzia amabilis (Beautybush) | Pink | May |
| Sycamore Hill | ||
| Narcissus cvs. (Daffodils) | Yellow, white | April |
| Cercis canadensis (Redbud) | Lavender | April, May |
| Syringa spp. and cvs. | Lavender | May |
| Aesculus pavia (Red Buckeye) | Red | May |
| Kalmia latifolia (Mountain-laurel) | Pink | May, June |
| Chionanthus virginicus (Fringe Tree) | White | May, June |
| Deutzia spp. and cvs | White, lavender |
BLOOM REPORT # 24
Winterthur Museum, Gardens & Library
WINTERTHUR BLOOM REPORT #24
September 23, 2020
73F, sunny
+: Abundant
fbb: Flower-bud breaking
b: Some bloom
fb: Full Bloom
pf: Petals falling/drying
pb: Past bloom (few remain)
ber: Berries, fruits
Check these out:
- The show is at its best: The autumn crocus ( – lavender-pink with white center and Colchicum ‘Giant’ – lavender-pink) is blooming on the east side of Oak Hill. Look in the lawn between the hardy orange trees & the native azalea bushes, or get a great view from the bench adjacent to the Quarry Garden.
- Fairy candles: Experience the magic of the fuzzy white spikes of fairy candles/fairy wands (Actaea acerina), also called bugbane, in Azalea Woods in the triangle along the east-west path nearest the 1850 House and along the serpent pathway in Enchanted Woods.
- Gorgeous goldenrod: Walk the mowed pathways through the meadows to be immersed in goldenrod (Solidago species) flowers or stop on a hillside for a breathtaking view of gold.
ENTRANCE DRIVE AND PARKING AREA
pf Abelia x grandiflora (Glossy abelia – soft pink)
fb Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
ber Asclepias syriaca (Common milkweed – green, prickly ‘teardrops’)
ber Catalpa species (Catalpa – long, green, string-bean-like seed pods)
fb Heptacodium miconoides (Seven-sons tree – white)
pb Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’ (Pee Gee hydrangea – pink to tan)
pf Liriope muscari (Blue lily-turf – lavender)
ber Paulownia tomentosa (Princess tree – clusters of round yellow-green seed pods)
ber Physalis species (Ground cherry – green to tan ‘lantern’ seed pod – at far edge of parking lot near cherry trees)
fb Solidago caesia (Blue-stemmed plume goldenrod – yellow)
fb Solidago juncea (Early goldenrod – yellow)
b Symphiotrichum ericoides (Aster ericoides/Heath aster – white)
LAGOONS
fb Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
b Chelone glabra (Turtlehead – white)
pb Cicorium intybus (Chicory – blue)
pb Cirsium muticum (Swamp thistle – reddish purple)
fb Convolvulus species (Morning-glory vine – white, pink)
pb Coronilla varia (Crown vetch – lavender-pink)
pb Daucus carota (Queen Anne’s lace – white)
pf Desmodium species (Tick trefoil – dark pink)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white – along Clenny Run)
pf Galium mollugo (Wild madder – white ‘clouds’ of tiny flowers)
fb,+ Impatiens capensis (Jewel weed – orange)
fb Lobelia siphilitica (Great lobelia – blue)
ber Maclura pomifera (Osage orange – ‘pebbly’ softball-sized green fruits – along Clenny Run)
pf Oenothera biennis (Evening primrose – yellow)
b Oxalis species (Wood sorrel – yellow)
ber Phytolacca americana (Pokeweed – green berries turning purple on red stems)
fb Polygonum hydropiperoides (Mild water-pepper – tiny white flowers)
fb,+ Solidago caesia (Blue-stemmed plume goldenrod – yellow)
pb Solidago graminifolia (Lance-leaved goldenrod – yellow)
fb,+ Solidago juncea (Early goldenrod – yellow)
b Symphiotrichum ericoides (Aster ericoides/Heath aster – white)
b Symphiotrichum lateriflorum (Aster lateriflorus/Calico aster – white)
fb,+ Symphiotrichum novae-angliae (Aster novae-angliae/New England aster – purple)
b Symphiotrichum species (Aster – pale lavender-blue)
pb Trifolium pratense (Red clover – reddish-purple)
pb Vicia cracca (Cow vetch – purple)
SUMMER SHRUB SLOPE
pf Buddleia davidii (Butterfly bush – white)
fb Hibiscus syriacus (Rose of Sharon – rosy purple)
pf Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’ (Pee Gee hydrangea – white/off-white turning pinkish-tan)
pf Lagerstroemia ‘Biloxi’ (Crape myrtle variety – dark pink)
pb Vitex agnus-castus (Chaste-tree – blue, pale pink, white)
PARKING AREA TO VISITOR CENTER
b Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
pb Lobelia siphilitica (Great blue lobelia – blue)
fb Prenanthes species (Rattlesnake-root – greenish bell-like flowers)
b Symphyotrichum cordifolium (Aster cordifolius/Blue wood aster – pale blue)
fb Tovara virginiana (Virginia knotweed – tiny greenish-white flowers along wiry stems)
WALK FROM VISITOR CENTER TO UNDERPASS
b Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
pf Hosta lancifolia (Narrow leaf hosta – lavender)
pb Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ (Royal standard hosta – white)
b Impatiens capensis (Jewel weed – orange)
WALK FROM UNDERPASS TO MUSHROOM
b Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
pb Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ (Royal standard hosta – white)
SLOPE DOWN TOWARDS MUSEUM-N/A
PEONY GARDEN-N/A
AZALEA WOODS
fb,+ Actaea acerina (Bugbane/fairy candles – white)
b Colchicum species (Autumn crocus – lavender-pink – 1 flower, 1 bud)
fb Collinsonia canadensis (Horse balm – small yellow flowers)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
pf Gentiana clausa (Closed gentian – dark blue)
pb Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ (Royal standard hosta – white)
pf Lobelia siphilitica (Great lobelia – blue)
pb Phlox paniculata (Garden phlox – pink)
ber Smilacina racemosa (Maianthemum recemosum/False Solomon’s seal – bright red berries)
b Solidago flexicaulis (Zig zag goldenrod – yellow)
fb Tovara virginiana (Virginia knotweed – tiny greenish-white flowers along wiry stems)
LOWER AZALEA WOODS
fbb Actaea acerina (Bugbane/fairy candles – white)
fb Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (Plumbago – intense blue)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
pb Rhododndron mucronatum ‘Magnifica’ ( Magnifica azalea – white with strawberry speckles – 3 flowers)
b Solidago flexicaulis (Zig zag goldenrod – yellow)
UPPER/EAST TERRACE AND STEPS
pf Abelia x grandiflora (Glossy abelia – soft pink)
pf Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ (Royal standard hosta – white)
pf,+ Liriope muscari (Blue lily-turf – lavender)
ber Magnolia grandiflora (Southern magnolia – pinkish to red fuzzy cones)
EAST FRONT OF MUSEUM & Around Corner
fb Abelia x grandiflora (Glossy abelia – soft pink)
fb Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white – behind Bath House)
ber Callicarpa dichotoma (Purple beautyberry – purple berries)
ber Callicarpa japonica (Japanese beautyberry – purple berries)
pf Hosta lancifolia (Narrow leaf hosta – lavender – behind Bath House)
pb Lagerstroemia x ‘Sioux’ (Crape myrtle – dark pink)
ber Magnolia grandiflora (Southern magnolia – pinkish fuzzy cones with bright red berries)
b Symphyotrichum cordifolium (Aster cordifolius/Blue wood aster – blue – behind Bath House)
WALK FROM GLASS CORRIDOR TO REFLECTING POOL
pf Abelia x grandiflora (Glossy abelia – soft pink)
fb Begonia grandis (Hardy begonia – pink)
pb Clematis ‘Candida’ (Large-flowered clematis – white)
pb Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ (Royal standard hosta – white)
pf Hydrangea paniculata ‘Tardiva’ (Panicle hydrangea cultivar – white)
pb Hydrangea serrata ‘Shirofugi’ (Tea of Heaven hydrangea cultivar – white)
fb,+ Liriope muscari (Blue lily-turf – lavender)
fb Nymphaea species (Waterlily – pink, white)
fb Pontederia cordata (Pickerelweed – blue)
fb Solidago caesia (Blue-stemmed plume goldenrod – yellow)
ber Viburnum dilatatum (Linden viburnum – red berries)
WALK FROM FISH PONDS – THE GLADE – TO BRIDGE
fb Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
fb Collinsonia canadensis (Horse balm – small yellow flowers)
pb Egeria densa (Elodea – white – in upper koi pond)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
pf Heuchera villosa (Hairy alum root – creamy white)
pb Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ (Royal standard hosta – white)
pb Hydrangea arborescens (Smooth hydrangea – green)
pb Hydrangea arborescens ‘Grandiflora’ (Hills of Snow hydrangea – green)
fb Lobelia siphilitica (Great lobelia – blue, white)
pf Phlox paniculata (Garden phlox – pink, white)
ber Smilacina racemosa (Maianthemum recemosum/False Solomon’s seal – bright red berries)
fb Solidago flexicaulis (Zig zag goldenrod – yellow)
b Symphyotrichum cordifolium (Aster cordifolius/Blue wood aster – blue)
fb Tovara virginiana (Virginia knotweed – tiny greenish-white flowers along wiry stems)
b Tricyrtis variety (Toad-lily – white with purple speckles)
MARCH BANK
fb Collinsonia canadensis (Horse balm – small yellow flowers)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
pb Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ (Royal standard hosta – white)
fbb Kirengeshoma palmata (Wax bells – yellow)
pf Phlox paniculata (Garden phlox – pink, white)
fb Solidago flexicaulis (Zig zag goldenrod – yellow)
fb Tovara virginiana (Virginia knotweed – tiny greenish-white flowers along wiry stems)
MAGNOLIA BEND AND WALK ON SOUTH SIDE OF STREAM
b Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
fb Chelone glabra (Turtlehead – white)
fb Collinsonia canadensis (Horse balm – small yellow flowers)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
pb Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ (Royal standard hosta – white)
pb Hydrangea arborescens (Smooth hydrangea – white)
pb Hydrangea quercifolia (Oakleaf hydrangea – tan)
pf Lobelia siphilitica (Great lobelia – blue)
pb Phlox paniculata (Garden phlox – pink)
fb Solidago flexicaulis (Zig zag goldenrod – yellow)
fbb Symphyotrichum cordifolium (Aster cordifolius/Blue wood aster – blue)
fb Tovara virginiana (Virginia knotweed – tiny greenish-white flowers along wiry stems)
GARDEN LANE-N/A
WINTERHAZEL WALK
b Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
fb,+ Lobelia siphilitica (Great lobelia – blue, few white)
b Solidago flexicaulis (Zig zag goldenrod – yellow)
ICEWELL TERRACE
fbb Actaea acerina (Bugbane/fairy candles – white)
fbb Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
fb Collinsonia canadensis (Horse balm – small yellow flowers)
pf Gentiana clausa (Closed gentian – dark blue)
pb Phlox paniculata (Garden phlox – pink, white)
b Solidago flexicaulis (Zig zag goldenrod – yellow)
fb Tovara virginiana (Virginia knotweed – tiny greenish-white flowers along wiry stems)
PINETUM
ber Arisaema triphyllum (Jack-in-the-pulpit – bright red berries)
pb Chaenomeles cultivars (Flowering quince – red, orange)
ber Chaenomeles cultivars (Flowering quince – yellow fruits)
pb Erodium cicutarium (Cranesbill – pink)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
ber Idesia polycarpa (Iigiri tree – light orange berries)
pb Lobelia siphilitica (Great lobelia – blue, white)
ber Malus species (Crabapple – red fruits)
fb Oxalis species (Wood sorrel – yellow)
SUNDIAL GARDEN
fbb Magnolia x soulangeana (Saucer magnolia – dark pink)
pb Syringa variety (Lilac – single red-purple)
TRAFFIC CIRCLE
ber Viburnum dilatatum ‘Xanthocarpum’ (Linden viburnum variety – yellow berries)
ENCHANTED WOODS
fb,+ Actaea acerina (Bugbane/fairy candles – white)
ber Actaea pachypoda (Doll’s eyes – white berries)
b Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
fb Anemone hupehensis (Anemone – dark pink)
fb,+ Begonia grandis (Hardy begonia – white, pink)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
fb Heuchera villosa (Hairy alum root – creamy white)
pb Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ (Royal standard hosta – white)
pb Hydrangea arborescens ‘Grandiflora’ (Hills of Snow hydrangea – few white + greenish to tan)
pb Hydrangea quercifolia (Oakleaf hydrangea – greenish, turning pink to tan)
pf Hydrangea serrata (Mountain hydrangea – white to greenish)
fb Kirengeshoma palmata (Wax bells – yellow)
b Salvia koyamae (Japanese sage – yellow)
fbb Tricyrtis variety (Toad lily – white with purple speckles)
OAK HILL-East Side
ber Callicarpa dichotoma (Purple beautyberry – purple berries)
fb,+ Colchicum byzantium (Autumn crocus – lavender-pink with white center)
fb,+ Colchicum ‘Giant’ (Autumn crocus – lavender-pink)
pb Daucus carota (Queen Anne’s lace – white – in meadow)
pf Eupatorium perfoliatum (Wetlands boneset – white – at bottom of meadow)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
pf,+ Hosta lancifolia (Narrow leaf hosta – lavender)
pf Hydrangea involucrata ‘Tama Azisai’ (Bracted hydrangea – white with blue, pink)
pf Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal flower – red – at bottom of meadow)
fb Polygonum hydropiperoides (Mild water-pepper – tiny white flowers – at bottom of meadow)
ber Poncirus trifoliata (Hardy orange – fuzzy dark yellow fruits)
fb Solidago caesia (Blue-stemmed plume goldenrod – yellow – in meadow)
b Solidago flexicaulis (Zig zag goldenrod – yellow)
pb Solidago graminifolia (Lance-leaved goldenrod – yellow – at bottom of meadow)
fb Solidago juncea (Early goldenrod – yellow – in hillside meadow)
fb,+ Solidago variety (Goldenrod – yellow – at bottom of meadow)
b Sternbergia lutea (Fall daffodil – yellow)
fb Symphiotrichum ericoides (Aster ericoides/Heath aster – white – at bottom of meadow)
b Symphiotrichum species (Aster – pale lavender-blue – at bottom of meadow)
b Tovara virginiana (Virginia knotweed – tiny greenish-white flowers along wiry stems)
ber Viburnum dilatatum ‘Xanthocarpum’ (Linden viburnum variety – yellow berries)
ber Viburnum setigerum (Tea viburnum – orange berries turning red)
OAK HILL-West Side
b Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
ber Magnolia acuminata (Cucumbertree – red fuzzy cones)
fb Tovara virginiana (Virginia knotweed – tiny greenish-white flowers along wiry stems)
ber Viburnum setigerum (Tea viburnum – red berries)
QUARRY, ADJACENT WALKS, AND OUTLET STREAM
b Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white)
fb Anemone x hupehensis (Anemone cultivar – pink)
pb Clematis heracleifolia var. davidiana (Tube clematis – blue)
fb Collinsonia canadensis (Horse balm – small yellow flowers)
pb Eupatorium maculatum (Joe pye weed – white to pale lavender-pink)
fb,+ Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white)
fb,+ Heuchera villosa (Hairy alum root – creamy white)
pb Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ (Royal standard hosta – white)
fb Ligularia sibirica var. speciosa (Ligularia – yellow)
pb Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal flower – red)
pb Lobelia siphilitica (Great lobelia – blue)
fb Oenothera biennis (Evening primrose – yellow – along Quarry outlet stream)
fb,+ Rudbeckia hirta (Black-eyed susan – yellow)
b Solidago flexicaulis (Zig zag goldenrod – yellow)
fb Solidago variety (Goldenrod – yellow)
fb Tovara virginiana (Virginia knotweed – tiny greenish-white flowers along wiry stems)
b Tricyrtis variety (Toad lily – white with purple speckles)
SYCAMORE HILL
ber Catalpa species (Catalpa – long, green, string-bean-like seed pods)
fb Colchicum byzantium (Autumn crocus – lavender-pink with white center – small clump behind the Brick Lookout near the edge of the meadow at the English oak [Quercus rober])
ber Cornus kousa (Kousa dogwood – ‘pebbly’ green fruits turning red)
ber Cotoneaster salacifolia (Cotoneaster – red berries)
fb,+ Heuchera villosa (Hairy alum root – creamy white)
pf Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’ (Pee Gee hydrangea – pinkish-tan)
pf Leptodermis oblonga (Chinese leptodermis – rosy lavender)
pf Lobelia siphilitica (Great lobelia – blue)
pb Rosa ‘Radwin’ (Winner’s Circle rose – red)
pf Rosa species (Rose – white – around Brick Lookout)
pb Spiraea x ‘Margaritae’ (Margarita spiraea – shades of pink)
fb Viburnum rhytidophylloides (Leatherleaf viburnum – off-white)
ber Viburnum setigerum (Tea viburnum – red berries)
pb Weigela ‘Eva Rathke’ (Weigela cultivar – dark red)
pb Weigela ‘Red Prince’ (Weigela cultivar – dark red)
WEST FRONT OF MUSEUM AND CLENNY RUN
fb Colchicum species (Autumn crocus – lavender-pink)
fb Heptacodium miconoides (Seven-sons tree – white – behind Museum Store)
pb Hydrangea arborescens (Smooth hydrangea – greenish)
pb Hydrangea macrophylla (Bigleaf hydrangea – dark rose)
pb Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Fuji Waterfall’ (Bigleaf hydrangea cultivar – white)
pb Hydrangea quercifolia (Oakleaf hydrangea – dried brown – in Clenny Run at Museum bridge)
ber Ilex ‘Winter Red’ (Winterberry holly – red berries)
fb Impatiens capensis (Jewel weed – orange – along Clenny Run)
pf Liriope muscari (Blue lily-turf – lavender)
fb Liriope muscari variety (White lily-turf – white – behind Museum Store)
fb Polygonum hydropiperoides (Mild water-pepper – tiny white flowers – along Clenny Run)
fbb Sternbergia lutea (Fall daffodil – yellow)
pb Viburnum rhytidophylloides (Leatherleaf viburnum – off-white – along Museum Store and at Coach House)
GREENHOUSE AREA
pb Hemerocallis ‘Happy Returns’ (Daylily – yellow)
fb,+ Hosta lancifolia (Narrow leaf hosta – lavender)
fb,+ Lablab purpureus (Hyacinth bean vine – purple)
ber Lablab purpureus (Hyacinth bean vine – shiny purple seed pods)
ber Ricinus communis variety (Castor oil plant – red seed pods)
fb Sedum spectabile variety (Stonecrop – lavender-, pink)
BACK MEADOW – Top of Sycamore Hill to back ponds
ber Asclepias syriaca (Common milkweed – green, prickly ‘teardrops’)
pf Brassica species (Mustard – light yellow)
pb Carduus nutans (Nodding thistle – reddish purple)
fb Centaurea maculata (Spotted knapweed – purple)
fb Chelone glabra (Turtlehead – white)
pf Cicorium intybus (Chicory – blue)
pb Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle – pale lilac)
pf Coronilla varia (Crown vetch – lavender-pink)
pb Daucus carota (Queen Anne’s lace – white)
pf Eupatorium perfoliatum (Wetlands boneset – white)
pb Hibiscus moscheutos ‘Luna Red’ (Hardy hibiscus variety – red – 1 bloom – along Quarry outlet stream)
b Hibiscus moscheutos ‘Luna White’ (Hardy hibiscus variety – white – along Quarry outlet stream)
fb,+ Impatiens capensis (Jewel weed – orange)
pf Lobelia siphilitica (Great lobelia – blue)
pb Lycopus virginicus (Bugleweed – white)
fb Oenothera biennis (Evening primrose – yellow – along Quarry outlet stream)
ber Phytolacca americana (Pokeweed – green berries turning purple on red stems)
fb,+ Polygonum hydropiperoides (Mild water-pepper – tiny white flowers)
pb Silphium perfoliatum (Cup plant – yellow)
b Solanum carolinense (Horse-nettle – white to lavender ‘stars’ with yellow center)
fb,+ Solidago caesia (Blue-stemmed plume goldenrod – yellow)
pb Solidago graminifolia (Lance-leaved goldenrod – yellow)
fb,+ Solidago juncea (Early goldenrod – yellow)
b Symphyotrichum cordifolium (Aster cordifolius/Blue wood aster – blue)
b Symphiotrichum ericoides (Aster ericoides/Heath aster – white)
fb Symphiotrichum novae-angliae (Aster novae-angliae/New England aster – purple)
fb Symphiotrichum species (Aster – pale lavender-blue)
pb Trifolium pratense (Red clover – reddish purple)
fb Typha latifolia (Cattail – brown ‘hot dogs’)
GARDEN LANE MEADOW – Below Brown’s Woods
fb Ageratina altissima (Eupatorium rugosum/White snake root – white – at edge of woods)
ber Asclepias syriaca (Common milkweed – green, prickly ‘teardrops’)
pb Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle – pale lilac)
pb Coronilla varia (Crown vetch – lavender-pink)
pb Daucus carota (Queen Anne’s lace – white)
fb Eurybia divaricata (Aster divaricatus/White wood aster – white – along edge of woods)
fb Gnaphalium obtusifolium (Sweet everlasting – white)
fb Oxalis species (Wood sorrel – yellow)
ber Phytolacca americana (Pokeweed – green berries turning purple on red stems)
fb Pycnanthemum species (Mountain mint – green with white ‘haze’)
fb,+ Rudbeckia hirta (Black-eyed susan – yellow)
pb Solanum carolinense (Horse-nettle – white to lavender ‘stars’ with yellow center)
ber Solanum carolinense (Horse-nettle – yellow berries)
fb,+ Solidago caesia (Blue-stemmed plume goldenrod – yellow)
pb Solidago graminifolia (Lance-leaved goldenrod – yellow)
fb,+ Solidago juncea (Early goldenrod – yellow)
b Symphiotrichum ericoides (Aster ericoides/Heath aster – white)
fb Symphiotrichum lateriflorum (Aster lateriflorus/Calico aster – white)
fb Symphiotrichum species (Aster – pale lavender-blue)
fb Symphiotrichum novae-angliae (Aster novae-angliae/New England aster – purple)
pb Trifolium pratense (Red clover – reddish-purple)
Bloom Report Presented by Pauline Myers
At the Museum
Field trips are sold out for the 2024–25 school year. Please email school@winterthur.org to be added to the wait list.
Adopt an Object
Grades Pre-K-2
Students investigate daily life in the past through the study of household objects. Learn about shapes, materials, and basic economics while role-playing, making comparisons, and participating in a story.
Program length: 90 minutes
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Wonder & Wander in the Enchanted Woods
Grades Pre-K to 2
Wander paths on a wondrous garden walk to Enchanted Woods and discover a new appreciation of nature. Includes imaginative play in Enchanted Woods.
Program length: 90 minutes, outdoors
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House Tour
Grades K to 12
Be inspired by America’s heritage with a tour of the former house of H. F. du Pont and his collection of American decorative arts. Enter the museum through our palatial conservatory and be guided through the entertaining spaces of the past.
Program length: 45 minutes
Available Tuesday-Friday 9-10 am
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Gallery Tour
Grades 1 to 12
Winterthur’s exhibitions explore stories about American history, craft, design, and preservation. Take a guided tour through our current exhibitions, which include Ann Lowe: American Couturier (through January 7, 2024), Transformations: Contemporary Artists at Winterthur (opening May 4, 2024), Outside In, Conversations with the Collections, Bearing Witness, and the Dominy Shops.
Program length: 45 minutes
Sold out.
Hike
Grades 1 to 12
Explore Winterthur’s preserved woodlands, meadows, and farmscapes on a guided hike. Length and difficulty of terrain can be customized.
Program length: customizable, outdoors
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Bugs in the Museum
Grades 2 to 4
Winterthur’s collection includes many objects decorated with bugs, even a few things that bugs have helped create or damage. Investigate the important roles that bugs play throughout human history and learn how the museum keeps its collections “pest free.”
Program length: 90 minutes
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Garden Explorers
Grades 2 to 12
Stretch your legs and imaginations on a lively guided walk through some of Winterthur’s distinctive garden and farm spaces. May include recreational time in Enchanted Woods.
Program length: 90 minutes, outdoors
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Maker & Marketplace
Grades 4 to 6
Local and global economies, geography, and history come together as students study the roles of craftsmen, merchants, and shopkeepers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Program length: 90 minutes
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Discover the Science of Museum Collections
Grades 7 to 12
Caring for museum collections involves a lot of science! Through hands-on activities, students uncover the behind-the-scenes work of Winterthur’s scientists, who help keep our historic objects safe for generations to come.
Program length: 135 minutes
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Careers at the Museum
Grades 7 to 12
Chat with professionals from a wide array of backgrounds at Winterthur, including curatorial, hospitality, maintenance, trade shops, library, and more. Students will learn what these professionals do at Winterthur and how they can prepare for their own careers. Teachers can introduce their students to five different departments for students to meet. A full list of participating departments provided on request.
Program length: 135 minutes
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Creators, Collectors, & Curators
Grades 9 to 12
Explore how Winterthur’s curators and museum professionals choose what objects to acquire and display. Visit several unique period rooms, each with a behind-the-scenes story, and study our Galleries with new interpretations of old creations.
Program length: 135 minutes
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The Story of Winterthur
Amid the hills of the historic Brandywine Valley, where the paper was milled for the Declaration of Independence and where three generations of Wyeths have painted landscapes, Winterthur sits as it has for generations, a grand estate like few others in America.
The story of Winterthur is the story of the du Ponts, a family who came to the United States in 1800 and created a powerful business, a war-time legacy, a senatorial authority, and a museum that preserved the essence of American decorative arts. From 1839 to 1969, four generations called Winterthur home.
When Jacques Antoine and Evelina du Pont Bidermann built a home on their land in northern Delaware, the small estate was named Winterthur after the Swiss town where Jacques’ family came from. They were a prosperous couple. Evelina’s family had been nobles in France until the French Revolution and had immigrated to the young United States for new opportunities. The establishment of E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company, the foundation of today’s DuPont company, brought the couple together. Jacques Bidermann, son of one of the largest European investors of the day, visited the company to review its financial health. He found it sound, found a position there, and shortly thereafter found a wife in Eleuthère Irénée du Pont’s daughter, Evelina.
The Bidermanns moved into Winterthur in 1839, yet the grounds transformed and the house grew with every future generation. In these early years, Winterthur was simply a twelve room Greek-revival manor house.
After the deaths of the Bidermanns, the home passed to their nephew Henry Algernon du Pont. The young man already had greatly established himself, graduating first in his class at West Point and serving as a colonel in the Civil War. For his actions at the Battle of Cedar Creek, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Under Henry Algernon du Pont’s ownership, the estate’s road system expanded; the roof was raised, and modest changes were made to the interior; however, his son is the one credited with Winterthur’s legacy.
A new generation of du Pont children grew up playing amidst the fields, gardens, and streams of Winterthur in the 1880s. Perhaps this is where the love for the land and its possibilities was first sparked in young Henry Francis. With skills far different from those of his military strategist and senator father, his talents appeared elseware.
The Winterthur of today is the living vision of Henry Francis du Pont. He wanted to create a museum to preserve the best of American style and craftsmanship. One-hundred seventy-five rooms range from the unpretentious wood-paneled grace of the Marlboro Room to the opulent Port Royal Parlor. The spatterware of the Pennsylvania Germans, the austere simplicity of Shaker design, the ornate flourishes of Chippendale furniture, the pragmatic style of Colonial Windsor chairs, and popular Chinoiserie elements all have their places. The museum opened its doors as the autumn leaves started to turn in 1951. Yet the home itself is hardly Henry Francis du Pont’s only legacy.
The thousand-acre estate contains many garden areas, revealing the harmony and tranquility of nature around every bend of the pathways. These garden areas were designed by du Pont himself over decades of meticulous arrangement. His study of horticulture and landscape design culminated in this striking success, which is preserved in every seasonal bloom that opens to delight visitors today.