On May 24, 2016, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art will be hosting a scholars' day symposium in celebration of the Thomas J. Watson Library’s recent acquisition
of a broad range of American decorated publishers’ bindings. The program
will focus on the history, manufacture and conservation of American publishers’
bindings and the role of designers in the decorative arts. This program is invitational and will not be open to the public. The program will feature talks by Richard Minsky, Todd Pattison, Mindell Dubansky, Holly Phillips, Constance McPhee and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen. A report on the program is forthcoming.
You can access the Watson Library's collection of decorative bindings through Watsonline. Other materials are available by appointment in the Department of Drawings and Prints, including Margaret Armstrong's original botanical drawings for her book Western Wildflowers. Some of Morse's design drawings at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum are now available online through this link: https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18060579/objects/
In prepation for the symposium, several blog posts have been updated. If you have questions, please contact me at mindell.dubansky@metmuseum.org
You can access the Watson Library's collection of decorative bindings through Watsonline. Other materials are available by appointment in the Department of Drawings and Prints, including Margaret Armstrong's original botanical drawings for her book Western Wildflowers. Some of Morse's design drawings at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum are now available online through this link: https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18060579/objects/
In prepation for the symposium, several blog posts have been updated. If you have questions, please contact me at mindell.dubansky@metmuseum.org
