An Illuminating Look at Tiffany Lighting

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
2:30 p.m.
Lindsy R. Parrott
Executive Director and Curator, The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Long Island City, New York

Collecting Inspiration: Tiffany & Co.’s Edward C. Moore

Wednesday, March 27, 2024
2:30 p.m.
Medill H. Harvey
Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American Decorative Arts and Manager, The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City,

Politics and Pageantry: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave, Frederick Douglass, and the Capital City

Wednesday, February 21, 2024
2:30 p.m.
Sarah Cash
Associate Curator, American and British Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Marcus & Co.: A New York Jeweler in the Victorian Era

Wednesday, January 24, 2024
2:30 p.m.
Beth Carver Wees and Sheila Smithie
Curator Emerita, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Fellow, Gemmological Association of Great Britain
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

Hidden Treasures: Tiffany Windows at Woodlawn Cemetery

Wednesday, April 19, 2023
2:30 p.m.
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Henrietta King’s 100+ Year Legacy: The Main House

Wednesday, March 22, 2023
2:30 p.m.
Lisa A. Neely
Archivist, King Ranch, Inc., Kingsville, Texas
Richard Guy Wilson

Preserving the Ephemeral: Emergence of Historic Preservation in the United States

Wednesday, February 8, 2023
2:30 p.m.
Richard Guy Wilson
Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Jeanne M. Pelletier, Presevation Advisor, Boston

Preserving the Last Surviving Tiffany Residential Commission: The Ayer Mansion in Boston

Wednesday, January 25, 2023
2:30 p.m.
Jeanne M. Pelletier
Preservation Advisor, Boston, Massachusetts
Virginia Anderson

“The Artist is a Telescope”: Charles Herbert Moore and the American Pre-Raphaelites

Wednesday, April 20, 2022
2:30 p.m.
Virginia M. G. Anderson
Curator of American Art and Department Head, American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts department Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Director Laurence J. Ruggiero will speak on Wednesday, March 30.

The McKeans, American Painting, and the Morse

Wednesday, March 30, 2022
2:30 p.m.
Laurence J. Ruggiero
Director
Morse Museum, Winter Park

The Story of the American Watercolor Movement

Wednesday, February 16, 2022
2:30 p.m.
Kathleen A. Foster
Robert L. McNeil Jr., Senior Curator of American Art, Director, Center for American Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Regina Palm

Highlights from the Stebbins Collection

Wednesday, January 26, 2022
2:30 p.m.
Regina Palm
Curator of American Painting
Morse Museum, Winter Park
Laura F. Fry

Canceled: Artist, Inventor, Activist:  Laura Anne Fry and the American Art Pottery Movement

Wednesday, April 1, 2020
2:30 p.m.
Laura F. Fry
Senior Curator and Curator of Art
Gilcrease Museum Tulsa, Oklahoma
Richard Guy Wilson

Canceled: Art Nouveau in the United States

Wednesday, March 11, 2020
12:00 p.m.
Richard Guy Wilson
Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Jewelry for America

Wednesday, February 19, 2020
2:30 p.m.
Beth Carver Wees
Curator Emerita, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Jennifer Perry Thalheimer

Stories from the Archives—Louis Comfort Tiffany and His Studios

Wednesday, January 22, 2020
2:30 p.m.
Jennifer Perry Thalheimer
Curator and Collection Manager
Morse Museum, Winter Park
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

American Art Pottery:  The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wednesday, April 3, 2019
2:30 p.m.
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Martin Eidelberg

Adelaide Alsop Robineau, America’s Finest Ceramist

Wednesday, March 6, 2019
2:30 p.m.
Martin Eidelberg
Author and Professor Emeritus of Art History
Rutgers University, New Jersey

A Most Exquisite Display:  European Ceramics at the Centennial Exhibition

Wednesday, February 13, 2019
2:30 p.m.
Donna Corbin
Independent Curator
Philadelphia

American Art Pottery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:  The Early Years

Wednesday, January 30, 2019
2:30 p.m.
Nonie Gadsden
Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

Design Drawings for Mosaics from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany: Some New Discoveries

Wednesday, April 4, 2018
2:30 p.m.
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Jennifer Perry Thalheimer

The Enlightenment of Gramercy: Donald MacDonald’s Jeweled Glass

Wednesday, March 7, 2018
2:30 p.m.
Jennifer Perry Thalheimer
Curator and Collection Manager
Morse Museum, Winter Park, Florida
Bob Joly

The Domes of the Yosemite

Wednesday, February 28, 2018
2:30 p.m.
Bob Joly
Athenaeum Director, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Diane C. Wright

Innovation by Design: Frederick Wilson and Tiffany Studios

Wednesday, January 24, 2018
2:30 p.m.
Diane C. Wright
Curator of Glass and Decorative Arts
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Robert K. Wittman

The Hunt and Reveal of the Secrets of the Devil’s Diary

Tuesday, May 16, 2017
7:30 p.m.
Robert K. Wittman
Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College, Winter Park
Eric Silver

Discovering Tiffany: The McKeans, The Morse, and Me

Wednesday, April 5, 2017
2:30 p.m.
Eric Silver
Lillian Nassau, LLC, New York City
Richard Guy Wilson

Arts and Crafts: Progressive and Conservative Paths

Wednesday, March 8, 2017
2:30 p.m.
Richard Guy Wilson
Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

The Other Tiffany Girl: Agnes Northrop, Designer of Windows

Wednesday, February 22, 2017
2:30 p.m.
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Melody Barnett Deusner

Aestheticism and the American Businessman

Wednesday, January 25, 2017
2:30 p.m.
Melody Barnett Deusner
Assistant Professor of Art History
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Anna O. Marley

The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement

Wednesday, April 6, 2016
2:30 p.m.
Anna O. Marley
Curator of Historical American Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Roberta A. Mayer

Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest as Easel Painters

Wednesday, March 16, 2016
2:30 p.m.
Roberta A. Mayer
Professor, Art History, Department of the Arts
Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pennsylvania
Margaret K. Hofer

A Collecting Odyssey: The Tiffany Lamps of Egon and Hildegard Neustadt

Wednesday, February 24, 2016
2:30 p.m.
Margaret K. Hofer
Vice President and Museum Director
The New-York Historical Society, New York City
Anne-Marie O’Connor

The Lady in Gold

Tuesday, April 21, 2015
7:30 p.m.
Anne-Marie O’Connor
Author of The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (Knopf, 2012)
Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College, Winter Park
Lee Glazer

“Heirloom of the Artist”: Rethinking Whistler’s Peacock Room

Wednesday, April 15, 2015
2:30 p.m.
Lee Glazer
Associate Curator of American Art
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Richard Guy Wilson

19th-Century Eclecticism: Creating Victorian Modern

Wednesday, March 11, 2015
2:30 p.m.
Richard Guy Wilson
Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Donald Samick

Stained Glass of the J&R Lamb Studios and Its Contemporaries of the 20th Century

Wednesday, January 21, 2015
2:30 p.m.
Donald Samick
President and Owner, J. & R. Lamb Studios
Midland Park, New Jersey
Morna Elizabeth O’Neill

A is for Aestheticism: Reading Politics in the Art of Walter Crane

Wednesday, April 9, 2014
2:30 p.m.
Morna Elizabeth O’Neill
Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-Century European Art
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Geoffrey S. Parker

Pens: A Very Personal Passion

Wednesday, February 19, 2014
1:30 p.m.
Geoffrey S. Parker
Parker Pen Company
Janesville, Wisconsin
Wendy Kaplan

Italian Art Nouveau: A Material Culture of Modernity and Nostalgia

Wednesday, January 22, 2014
1:30 p.m.
Wendy Kaplan
Department Head and Curator, Decorative Arts and Design
Decorative Arts and Design, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Holly Edwards

Orientalism, American Style

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
2:30 p.m.
Holly Edwards
Senior Lecturer
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Richard Guy Wilson

Gilded Age Design: Excess and Reform

Tuesday, March 12, 2013
3:00 p.m.
Richard Guy Wilson
Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Arlie Sulka

Appreciating Tiffany as Tiffany Values Appreciate

Thursday, March 7, 2013
6:30 p.m.
Arlie Sulka
Owner and Managing Director of Lillian Nassau LLC, New York City
Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College, Winter Park
Jennifer Perry Thalheimer

Forms and Themes of Art Nouveau from the Morse Collection

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
1:30 p.m.
Jennifer Perry Thalheimer
Curator and Collection Manager
Morse Museum, Winter Park, Florida
Amy F. Ogata

Paris 1900: Art Nouveau and the International Exposition

Wednesday, January 30, 2013
1:30 p.m.
Amy F. Ogata
Associate Professor
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York City
Robert K. Wittman

Priceless: How One FBI Agent Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures

Thursday, May 10, 2012
8:30 p.m.
Robert K. Wittman
Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College
Richard Guy Wilson

Tiffany’s Laurelton Hall: A Mystical Encounter

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
3:30 p.m.
Richard Guy Wilson
Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Martin Eidelberg

Laurelton Hall: A Museum of Tiffany’s Own

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
2:30 p.m.
Martin Eidelberg
Author and Professor Emeritus of Art History
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estate

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
2:30 p.m.
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Roberta A. Mayer

Lockwood de Forest—Bringing India to America in the Gilded Age

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Roberta A. Mayer
Professor, Art History, Department of the Arts
Newtown, Pennsylvania
Karen A. Sherry

The ‘Japan Craze’ on Paper—Japonisme in American Graphic Art, 1880–1920

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
1:30 p.m.
Karen A. Sherry
Assistant Curator of American Art
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

From Amsterdam and 104th to Christmas in the Park—A History of the Association Home’s Tiffany windows

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
1:30 p.m.
Patricia Pongracz Spicka
Curator-at-Large
MOBIA (Museum of Biblical Art), New York City, New York
Barry Harwood

Kimbell and Cabus and Modern Gothic Furniture in America

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
2:30 p.m.
Barry Harwood
Independent Scholar, Curator, and Museum Consultant
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Edward Dolnick

The Art of Forgery—2009 Hugh F. McKean Public Lecture

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Edward Dolnick
Author and journalist
Washington, D.C.
Michael Phillips

The Art and Craft of Reproducing William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
1:30 p.m.
Michael Phillips
Senior Scholar
Winter Park Institute, Winter Park
Wendy Kaplan

The Arts and Crafts Movement from England to the United States

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Wendy Kaplan
Department Head and Curator, Decorative Arts and Design
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Cheryl Robertson

Frank Lloyd Wright in Arts and Crafts Context: Prairie-style Architecture and Furnishings

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
1:30 p.m.
Cheryl Robertson
Independent Scholar, Curator, and Museum Consultant
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Brian T. Allen

Orientalism in American Painting, 1860–1900

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
2:30 p.m.
Brian T. Allen
Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy
Andover, Massachusetts
Joseph Rossano

In Tiffany’s Steps—A Contemporary Glass Artist’s Journey

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
2:30 p.m.
Joseph Rossano
Artist
Arlington, Washington
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

Olana—-The Ideal Home of Landscape Painter Frederic Church

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
1:30 p.m.
Evelyn D. Trebilcock
Curator
The Olana Partnership, Hudson, New York
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

Culture vs. Craft and the Transformation of the American Museum

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
1:30 p.m.
Kathleen Curran
Associate Professor of Fine Arts
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Director Laurence J. Ruggiero will speak on Wednesday, March 30.

A Visit to Barcelona—Art, Architecture, and Design

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
1:30 p.m.
Laurence J. Ruggiero
Director
The Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park