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Save the Date - Lecture and Luncheon - October 1st 2018
Save the Date - Lecture and Luncheon - October 1st 2018

Our first event of the 2018.19 year will be a lecture and luncheon at Riverside Yacht Club.

Casanova's Europe: Art. Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century

Thomas Michie, Russell B. and Andrea Beauchamp Stearns Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Further details coming soon.

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), Bacino di San Marco, Venice, c. 1738

Photos: Courtesy of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

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It's time to renew your membership

It's time to  renew your membership or join the GDAS for the year 2018.19.

Please click here to go to our membership page where you can download the membership form.

Please click here for a printable list of our programs for 2018.19.  Details will be added to the site as soon as they become available.

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Archive Now available on our web site under More

GDAS is pleased to advise you that we now have an archive of all our lectures since 2010 on this web site.  Please go to More and then click on History for details.

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OUR MISSION

David Hockney Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum Speaker: Page Knox , Adjunct Professor, Art History Department, Columbia University, New York City; Contractual Lecturer for the Education Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art .      

David Hockney Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum
Speaker: Page Knox, Adjunct Professor, Art History Department, Columbia University, New York City; Contractual Lecturer for the Education Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art .

 

 

 

The purpose of the Greenwich Decorative Arts Society (the "Society") is to further the appreciation, knowledge and understanding of antiques and the fine and decorative arts. In accomplishing this goal, the Greenwich Decorative Arts Society provides and promotes educational programs on antiques and the decorative arts, such as engaging scholars to lecture on topics of interest. The Society also provides educational opportunities to further the knowledge of antiques and decorative arts with sponsored trips and tours.