WINTERTHUR, DE (July 11, 2024) – Spend a summer day or an entire weekend exploring Winterthur while shopping for unique, artisan-made crafts and gifts during the fourth annual Artisan Market, taking place July 19-21.

This year’s market will showcase some of the region’s most talented artisans, offering an array of outstanding wares. These include antiques and collectibles, furniture and home décor, architectural salvage, high-quality handmade crafts, vintage clothing and jewelry, artisanal and small-batch gourmet goods, original art in various media, garden items, and more.

“Artisan Market has become a popular and lively event,” said Chris Strand, the Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. “It’s not only a wonderful way to spend a day, but it also supports our mission to educate audiences about American material culture, art, and design. Many of the artisans create high-quality crafts related to art, textiles, ceramics, glass, woodworking, antiques, and gardening. Each of these categories connects to Winterthur’s past.”

Details about the event and a list of the more than 100 artists, musicians, and food vendors can be found at Winterthur.org.

Please note that all guests are required to purchase an event ticket in advance. This is a rain-or-shine event.  

Purchase tickets online here or by calling 800.448.3883.

Many of the artisans have received widespread acclaim:

• Marcie McGoldrick, former editorial director for crafts and holiday at Martha Stewart Living.
• Sarah Bourne Rafferty of Atwater Designs,  featured in the current edition of Magnolia Journal and recently Winterthur’s summer Artist-in-Residence.
• Dance Happy, featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The vendors will be in several locations throughout the estate. Visitors can walk the garden paths and enjoy the beauty of the summer blooms and lush greenery while shopping.

With your Artisan Market ticket:

• visit over 100 local artisans on-site;
• enjoy live music at various locations;
• sample culinary offerings;
• experience the Self-Paced House Tour (on a first-come, first-served basis as capacity is limited).

ABOUT WINTERTHUR MUSEUM, GARDEN & LIBRARY

Winterthur—known worldwide for its preeminent collection of American decorative arts, naturalistic garden, and research library for the study of American art and material culture— offers a variety of tours, exhibitions, programs, and activities throughout the year.

Winterthur is located on Route 52, six miles northwest of Wilmington, Delaware, and five miles south of U.S. Route 1. Winterthur is committed to accessible programming for all. For information, including special services, call 800.448.3883 or visit winterthur.org.

A Winterthur Tradition | November 7-9, 2025

One of the nation’s most highly acclaimed antiques shows presents a spectacular showcase of art, antiques, and design! Featuring the finest offerings from more than sixty distinguished dealers, the Delaware Antiques Show highlights the best of American antiques and decorative arts. Join us for a full schedule of exciting show features sure to captivate the sophisticated and new collector alike.

Opening Night Party

Please join Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library for the opening of the show with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and exclusive early shopping!

• Sponsor: $250 per person, includes admission at 5:00 pm
• Patron: $175 per person, 6:00 pm entry
• Young Collector: $125 per person, 6:00 pm entry

Opening Night Party ticket valid for admission to all days of the show and to Winterthur during the show dates. All lectures are included with show admission.

Thursday, November 6 | 5:00–9:00 pm

General Admission

$25 per person; $20 Winterthur Members. Children under 12 free.

Ticket valid for admission to all days of the show and to Winterthur during the show dates. All lectures are included with show admission.

• Friday, November 7 | 11:00 am–6:00 pm
• Saturday, November 8 | 11:00 am–6:00 pm
• Sunday, November 9 | 11:00 am–5:00 pm

Location & Parking

The Chase Center on the Riverfront is located at 815 Justison Street, Wilmington, Delaware, less than one hour south of Philadelphia, and midway between New York City and Washington, D.C.

Ample free parking. Accessible parking for persons with disabilities.

Keynote Lecture

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Uprooted Elegance: The Surprising Journey of American Garden Ornament

by Barbara Frelinghuysen Israel

After nearly forty years as an antique garden ornament dealer, Barbara Israel has gathered plenty of stories. This lecture delves into the many gardens, experiences, and intriguing personalities she has encountered over the years, ranging from the sublime to the nefarious (and everything in between).

Barbara Frelinghuysen Israel founded Barbara Israel Garden Antiques in 1985. Nearly forty years and hundreds of exquisite objects later, she is recognized as an authority on the subject, and her book Antique Garden Ornament: Two Centuries of American Taste is the definitive work in the field. Barbara has served as a consultant to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution for their collections of nineteenth-century cast iron. Barbara Israel Garden Antiques has been featured in The New York Times, House & Garden, Martha Stewart Living, and Flower magazine, among others. Book signing to follow lecture. Headshot by Bryan Goldberg Photography.

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Student Scholars Lectures

Student Scholars lectures sponsored by the Decorative Arts Trust 

Of the Earth: Neoclassicism and Natural History in a Philadelphia Center Table

by Steven Baltsas, Lois F. McNeil Fellow

Baltsas shows how a cabinetmaker in antebellum Philadelphia harnessed the city’s insatiable attraction to ancient and natural history in his creation of the ideal center table. Inlaid with floriated brass patterns against flame-like mahogany crotch veneer, this peerless classical table testifies to intellectual culture’s impact on furniture design in the early nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

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“To Imitate China”: A Close Reading of a Pair of Eighteenth-Century Hand-Screens

by Lanah Swindle, Lois F. McNeil Fellow

Swindle grapples with anti-Chinese sentiment in imagery preserved on a pair of eighteenth-century hand-screens. The survival of these objects, made between 1759 and 1770 for fashionable circles in London and Paris, presents an opportunity to reflect on the dissemination of racial stereotypes of Chinese people through decorative art forms made by and for Euro-Atlantic audiences in the eighteenth century.

Performance and Pleasure at the Early Modern Table

by Graham Titus, Lois F. McNeil Fellow

By 1650, a nascent English glass industry supplied elite diners with the tableware necessary for increasingly luxurious and performative feasts. Through the discussion of a seventeenth-century glass salver in Winterthur’s collection, Titus explores changing dining practices and foodways at a defining moment for the modern meal.

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Lectures

A Landscape of Peace, Prosperity, and Despair: Charles C. Hofmann’s Paintings Along the Schuylkill River

by Christopher Malone, Curator, Historic Trappe and Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia

Christopher Malone will step between the brush strokes to reveal the troubled but vibrant world of German immigrant, almshouse inmate, and itinerant painter Charles C. Hofmann. The changing landscapes in Hofmann’s almshouse paintings parallel his transient life along the Schuylkill River. From town to town, new architectural styles and industries appeared, showcasing the progress of American life after the Civil War. Hofmann’s paintings were filled with genteel people, farmers, and hardy workers, but his paintings often hid the sick and poverty-stricken individuals who inhabited the almshouses of southeastern Pennsylvania. His contributions to American folk art are important, and his works document Pennsylvania sites and landscapes that no longer exist.

Importing Style: The Decoupage Fraktur of Friedrich Krebs

by Trevor Brandt, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Chicago and Managing Editor, Americana Insights

Fraktur, the iconic German American “fractured” folk art, has historically been lauded as an emblematic regional style in North America. This talk highlights instead the global implications of the artist Friedrich Krebs. Krebs, a former Hessian soldier and the most prolific of all known fraktur artists, embellished many of his fraktur with elaborate brocade sheets imported from Germany. The effect was an intricate, decoupage-like fraktur that linked the German American home with international trade and global styles, challenging traditional interpretations of fraktur as a singularly regional American tradition.

Book signing to follow lectures.

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Thank You for Your Support!

Proceeds from this year’s Delaware Antiques Show help support key educational initiatives such as free school programs, low-priced tickets for families in need through the Museums for All program, and Discover Winterthur, our free day for the community. Through your support of these important programs, we are able to share the wonder of Winterthur with thousands of schoolchildren, and our surrounding community is able to enjoy the beauty of American decorative arts and the Brandywine Valley.

Media Partners

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WINTERTHUR, DE (June 11, 2024) – Storytellers, musicians, and dancers will help visitors celebrate Juneteenth at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library on Saturday, June 15, 11:00 am–3:00 pm.

Most activities are included with admission and are free for members.

The Wilmington Ballet and the Whitney Project will fill Winterthur’s Enchanted Woods and Copeland Lecture Hall with performances enriched by and deeply rooted in African American arts and culture.

The day will also include a World Marketplace in Enchanted Woods featuring A Flicker of Daisy, Created by LA, CreationsbyT, and Soleil Dancewear.

Register for the event at https://www.winterthur.org/calendar/juneteenth-freedom-day/

The festivities begin at 11:00 am with a “Celebration of Black Joy” performance in Copeland.

The World Marketplace will be open 11:00 am–3:00 pm in Enchanted Woods, with:

• African dance demonstrations, 11:30 am and 12:15 pm.
• Lift Every Voice at 12:45 pm.
• Drum circle at 12:50 pm.
• Storytelling at 1:15 pm.
• Community dance jam at 2:00 pm.

ABOUT WINTERTHUR MUSEUM, GARDEN & LIBRARY

Winterthur—known worldwide for its preeminent collection of American decorative arts, naturalistic garden, and research library for the study of American art and material culture— offers a variety of tours, exhibitions, programs, and activities throughout the year.

Winterthur is located on Route 52, six miles northwest of Wilmington, Delaware, and five miles south of U.S. Route 1. Winterthur is committed to accessible programming for all. For information, including special services, call 800.448.3883 or visit winterthur.org.