Exhibitions & EventsLecture/Gallery Talk
Lectures and Gallery Talks
Masterpieces of Boston Furniture at the DIA: 1650–1850
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
6:30 PM
Brock Jobe
Professor of American Decorative Arts, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE
DIA collections include a dazzling array of early Boston furniture, including a great tall chest signed by Nathaniel Bowen and dated 1774, and an exceptionally sensuous neoclassical center table made for David Sears in about 1820. But why are these works so special? Brock Jobe will explain.Sponsored by Associates of the American Wing