Upcoming Programs

For More Details on Program: Please click on photo.

Location: Lectures for 2023-24 will take place at the Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT 06830 unless otherwise noted.
Reservations: Guests are welcome. The guest fee is $30.00 payable by check in advance. For reservations please email greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com.

Program Events

Conservatories, Orangeries and Greenhouses: Historical Precedent, Modern Relevance

May 13

May 13, 2024

Conservatories, Orangeries and Greenhouses: Historical Precedent, Modern Relevance

May 13, 2024

Nancy Virts co-founder and Alan Stein, President and Director of Architecture Tanglewood Conservatories

Tanglewood Conservatories

Afternoon tea will be served after the lecture.

Guests Welcome: Guest Fee $30
Reservations: Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

May 13, 2024

Jun 3

Jun 3, 2024

American Woman of Style

Jun 3, 2024

Jessica Glasscock, Author, Historian, Researcher, Professor at Parsons School of Design

Afternoon tea will be served after the lecture.

Guests Welcome: Guest Fee $30
Reservations: Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

Jacqueline Bouvier on her wedding day, with Jack Kennedy on the left slightly out of frame] [1953 Sept. 12]

Credit line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Toni Frissell Photograph Collection, [reproduction number, LOT 15412]

Jun 3, 2024

All lectures are the property of the speaker and may not be disseminated, shared, recorded or distributed, in print or digitally, without the lecturer's express written permission. Your attendance at any Greenwich Decorative Arts lecture is not permission to disseminate, share, record or distribute.

Details of Past Programs for the previous year can be found below.

Details of Past Programs for other years can be found by clicking on More and then History at the top of our site.

Past Programs

Featured

Apr 1

Maryland Silver

Mark Letzer, former President and CEO of the Maryland Center for History and Culture

Afternoon tea will be served after the lecture.

Guests Welcome: Guest Fee $30
Reservations: Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

Cream Jug - Mark Letzer Family Collection

Mar 4

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920's

Stephen Harrison, Director and Chief Curator at the Munson Museum of Art in Utica, New York

Picture: US Rolls Royce

This lecture will be on zoom

Feb 5

“The Fascinating Life of Hearst Castle’s Architect Julia Morgan”

Victoria Kastner, Author and Lecturer

This lecture will be on zoom.

Dec 4

Jewelry For America

Beth Wees, Curator Emerita, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Afternoon tea will be served after the lecture.

Guests Welcome: Guest Fee $30
Reservations: Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

Picture: Brooch, Marcus & Co., ca. 1906
(2016.107)
Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nov 6

The Great River- Art and Society of the Connecticut Valley

Willliam Hosley, Principal, Terra Firma Northeast - Cultural Resource Development Consultant

Guests Welcome: Guest Fee $30
Reservations: Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

Afternoon tea will be served after the lecture.

PIcture: Hatfield 10-31-2022, Morton House c1760 CRV door 2

Oct 4

To Catch a Glimpse: The Newport Life of Doris Duke

Charles Burns is an Independent Curator and Newport Historian and a guest speaker at Sotheby’s Education in New York City.

Please note lecture is in the morning followed by lunch. Invitations will be sent out over the Summer.
We expect this lecture to be fully subscribed so it will be for members only.

Photograph: Doris Duke by Cecil Beaton, circa 1933

Jun 5

Holistic Gallery Restorations at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Holly Salmon, John L. and Susan K. Gardner Director of Conservation, Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum

Holly Salmon
Images: Courtesy of the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum

Guests Welcome: Guest Fee $25
Reservations: Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

May 1

Frederic Church’s Olana: A Global Artist’s Environment

William Coleman, Director of Collections and Exhibitions, The Olana Partnership

Picture: Olana on the Hudson River
Images Courtesy of The Olana Partnership

Guests Welcome: Guest Fee $25
Reservations: Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

Apr 3

Forbes Pigment Collection at Harvard

Alison Cariens, Conservation Coordinator, Harvard Art Museums

Picture: Pigment samples in the Forbes Pigment Collection
Image Credits: Caitlin Cunningham Photography

Guests Welcome: Guest Fee $25
Reservations: Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

Mar 13

The Lost Porcelain of WWII: Restitution and Ceramics

Lucien Simmons, Vice Chairman; Restitution Department, Sotheby’s, New York

THIS LECTURE IS ON ZOOM ONLY. IT IS HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONNECTICUT CERAMICS CIRCLE

PLEASE NOTE DATE: MONDAY MARCH 13TH AND TIME 2PM

GUESTS WELCOME: FREE

RESERVATIONS GREENWICH DECORATIVEARTS@GMAIL.COM

Picture: Meissen purple-ground cream pot, cover and stand, Circa 1730-35. Courtesy Southebys

Feb 6

Stanford White

Francis Morrone, Architectural Historian and Author

Picture: Payne-Whitney House

Guests Welcome: Guest Fee $25
Reservations: Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

NO LECTURE

Dec 5

David Webb

Levi Higgs, Head of Archives and Brand Heritage, David Webb, New York

PIcture: David Webb Jewelry Courtesy, David Webb Jewelry

Guests Welcome: Guest fee $25, reservations Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

Nov 7

The Great Gilded Age Collectors: Morgan, Frick, De Young

Colin B. Bailey, Director, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

Picture: The Fragonard Room in the Frick Collection, New York (originally opened 1916) Courtesy of the Frick Museum

Guests Welcome: Guest fee $25, reservations Greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com

Oct 6

Jacqueline Kennedy and H. F. du Pont: From Winterthur to the White House

Elaine Rice Bachmann, State Archivist and Commissioner of Land Patents, Secretary, State House Trust, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland

Please note lecture is in the morning followed by lunch. Invitations will be sent out over the Summer.
We expect this lecture to be fully subscribed so it will be for members only.

Picture: Jacqueline Kennedy on the Montmorenci Staircase at Winterthur May 8, 1961, Courtesy of Winterthur Archives