This volume comprises papers from the Georgia Museum of Art's sixth Henry D. Green Symposium for the Decorative Arts, held February 2 - 4, 2012. The theme marked the museum's return to its expanded building and the return of the symposium to Georgia topics. The publication includes the following essays: Deanne Deavours, Reminiscences of a Professional Life on the Forefront of American Decorative Arts; Daniel Kurt Ackermann, New Stories from Familiar Objects: Discovering the African American Imprint on Southern Decorative Arts at MESDA; William S. Burdell, Images of the Geechee People and Their Culture; Ashley Callahan Modern Antiques by Henry Eugene Thomas: Images of and Comments on the Georgia Bellflowers Exhibition; Treadwell Rice Crown, Known and Grown: Plants and Plantings of Cedar Lane Farm; Fred and Beth Mercier, Restoration, Revelation, and Reunion: The General John Floyd House; John Charles Knowlton Jr., Small and Gracious: A Planter's Home in Talbot County; Michelle Miller, Painted Porcelain of the Lycett Studios of Atlanta; Tania June Sammons, Supplied by England: The Thomas Gibbons Silver Collection; Samuel N. Thomas Jr., Mechanics of Time: Clock Peddlers of the Southern Piedmont and the Clocks They Peddled; Chris Schleier, By Eye and Feel; William Dunn Wansley, Cobbham's Dunn Jug; Kathleen Staples, The Butler-Downer Coverlet: A Masterpiece of Embroidered Histories; and Paul Manoguerra, The Billups Portraits; as well as four notes delivered by students, an introduction by Dale L. Couch and a foreword by museum director William Underwood Eiland.

Homecoming: The Sixth Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts

Kathleen Staples

Paul Manoguerra

Samuel N. Thomas Jr.

Ashley Callahan

Tania June Sammons

Daniel Kurt Ackermann

Deanne Deavours

William S. Burdell

Treadwell Rice Crown

Arts & Photography

Georgia Museum of Art

This fully illustrated catalogue by independent scholar and guest curator Kathleen Staples accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Georgia Museum of Art from October 31, 2015 to February 28, 2016. Georgia's Girlhood Embroidery: "Crowned with Glory and Immortality" is the first comprehensive exhibition to focus on colonial and antebellum girlhood embroideries created either in Georgia or by Georgians. These embroideries, also known as samplers, include rows of alphabets, quotations in prose and verse, images of architecture and embellished floral borders. Needlework took place in many different settings: public and private, elective and required, urban and rural. In Georgia's Girlhood Embroidery, Staples takes readers into the lives of the young sampler makers and brings to light the history of feminine skills and girlhood education in the state. The catalogue includes twenty-two samplers from public and private collections, including those of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), the Midway Museum, the Charleston Museum, Telfair Museums, St. Vincent's Academy of Savannah, Georgia, and the President James K. Polk Home and Museum.

Georgia's Girlhood Embroidery: "Crowned with Glory and Immortality"

Dale L. Couch

Jenny Garwood

This volume includes the following papers delivered at the seventh Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, held Jan. 30 through Feb. 1, 2014: "Revealing Georgia: Viewing the Cultural Landscape through Prints and Maps," by Margaret Beck Pritchard; "Utilitarian Earthenware in the Ebenezer Settlement, Effingham County, Georgia," by Daniel T. Elliott; "Worldly Goods for a Chosen People: The Material Culture of Savannah s Colonial Jewish Community," by Daniel Kurt Ackermann; "Considerations of William Verelst s 'The Common Council of Georgia Receiving the Indian Chiefs,' 1734 36," by Kathleen Staples; "Materiality in the Gullah Geechee Culture: The Kitchen in the Heart of the Story," by Althea Sumpter; "Colonial South Carolina Indigo: Red, White, and Black Made Blue," by Andrea Feeser; "Scarf and Dress Designs by Frankie Welch: Highlighting Georgia Through Her Americana," by Ashley Callahan; "Georgia's Textile Connections: Imports, Homespun and Industry," by Madelyn Shaw; "Weaving History: The Yeoman, the Slave, the Coverlet," by Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith; "Capitalism and Revolution: A Staffordshire Mug and Its Anti-Monarchial Message," by Lauren Word; "Sumptuous Goods: The McKinne-Whitehead-Rowland Collection at the Georgia Museum of Art," by Julia N. Jackson; "Valley View: Reflecting on a Place, Its People, and Its Furnishings," by Maryellen Higginbotham; "Mexican Silver in an Antebellum Georgia Household," by Carolyn Shuler; "From London to Shanghai, 1780 1920: How Five Generations of Yonges and Brownes Brought Their Silver to Columbus, Georgia," by Sandra Strother Hudson; and "Shopping from London to Naples for a Future Country Palace in Macon: William and Anne Tracy Johnston on the Grand Tour, 1851 1854," by Jonathan H. Poston, as well as a foreword by museum director William Underwood Eiland and acknowledgments and a focus on a recent acqusition by Dale L. Couch, curator, Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Connections: Georgia in the World: The Seventh Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts

Madelyn Shaw

Jonathan H. Poston

Daniel T. Elliott

Susan Falls

Andrea Feeser

Maryellen Higganbotham

Sandra Strother Hudson

Julia N. Jackson

Margaret Beck Pritchard

Jessica R. Smith

Althea Sumpter

This Have I Done: Samplers and Embroideries from Charleston and the Lowcountry [paperback] Jan Hiester,Kathleen Staples [Jan 01, 2001] ... 1928584039

This Have I Done: Samplers and Embroideries from Charleston and the Lowcountry

Jan Hiester

The Charleston Museum

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