Upcoming programs
Save the date!
On November 12, 2024, the DAS will present publication awards at the Explorers Club in New York City. Details to come.
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The Decorative Arts Society, Inc. (DAS) is pleased to offer occasional special events for our contributors.
Watch your mail and this space for announcements of new tours and other events.
If you have any questions, contact DAS Board Member Margi Hofer at
margi.hofer@gmail.com
If you are interested in becoming a DAS contributor, visit the Support section of our website: http://www.decartssociety.org/support/ or contact info@decartssociety.org for more information.
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Past programs
Whistle and Bells, gold and coral. Made 1761–1765 by Daniel Christopher Feuter (American, born Switzerland, 1720–1785) for Mary Duane North. Mabel Brady Garvan Collection; gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, James R. Graham, Walter M. Jeffords and Mrs. Paul Moore, 1942.
A Private Tour of the Special Exhibition
Gold in America: Artistry, Memory, Power
Saturday, April 23, 2022, at the Yale University Art Gallery
Led by John Stuart Gordon, Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Curator of American Decorative Arts
For millennia, gold’s glow, resistance to corrosion and rarity have made it a preferred material for objects meant to convey prestige, authority or devotion. Drawing on the Yale University Art Gallery’s holdings of American gold and augmented by paintings, photographs and other works of art, Gold in America: Artistry, Memory, Power was the gallery’s first exhibition since 1963 to survey the role of gold in American art and culture.
The exhibition featured more than 70 examples of gold and related material, with objects spanning more than 400 years, such as early colonial betrothal and mourning rings; a Gilded Age coffee service by Tiffany and Company; rare coins made from ore mined during the Gold Rush; a pair of shoe buckles from the late-18th century reflecting the wealth derived from the slave trade in the Caribbean; and works by contemporary artists who explore the medium’s historical associations, as well as the environmental and human costs of its extraction from the earth.
