25th Petite Antiques Forum and House Tours
January 30, 2025
January 30, 2025
We are grateful to our sponsors whose generosity has ensured the Forum's success.
Corporate Donors: Neal Auction Company, Thomasgraphics
Individual sponsors: Pat Alford, Sanford Arst, Barbara Bacot, Robert and Linda Bowsher, The Eaton Family, Jessica Kemm, Catherine White, Donna Wright, The Zobrist Family.
Corporate Donors: Neal Auction Company, Thomasgraphics
Individual sponsors: Pat Alford, Sanford Arst, Barbara Bacot, Robert and Linda Bowsher, The Eaton Family, Jessica Kemm, Catherine White, Donna Wright, The Zobrist Family.
The Forum will feature a lecture by Laura Pass Barry. The Juli Grainger Curator of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture at Colonial Williamsburg will speak about “American Folk Art at Colonial Williamsburg.”
In 2025, Colonial Williamsburg will celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of its superb folk art collection, which bears the name of its founder, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. When Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. began acquiring naive art in the late 1920s there were few other serious collectors. This was a time when not many people acknowledged that the portraits, weathervanes, theorem paintings, and figural trade signs created by nonacademic or folk artists were anything more than quaint or curious objects, with perhaps some historical interest. Mrs. Barry will share with the audience the extraordinary collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, America’s first folk art museum, as well as pieces from the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
Following the lecture in the Louisiana State Archives Building, attendees will lunch at the Baton Rouge Country Club.
The Forum will feature a lecture by Laura Pass Barry. The Juli Grainger Curator of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture at Colonial Williamsburg will speak about “American Folk Art at Colonial Williamsburg.”
In 2025, Colonial Williamsburg will celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of its superb folk art collection, which bears the name of its founder, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. When Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. began acquiring naive art in the late 1920s there were few other serious collectors. This was a time when not many people acknowledged that the portraits, weathervanes, theorem paintings, and figural trade signs created by nonacademic or folk artists were anything more than quaint or curious objects, with perhaps some historical interest. Mrs. Barry will share with the audience the extraordinary collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, America’s first folk art museum, as well as pieces from the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
Following the lecture in the Louisiana State Archives Building, attendees will lunch at the Baton Rouge Country Club.
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PAST PETITE ANTIQUES FORUMS
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Speaker: Jim Blanchard, a contemporary topographical artist
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Speaker: Jim Blanchard, a contemporary topographical artist
An 1850s Voyage on the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge,” Blanchard used images of his paintings to give a “steamboat tour” on the Mississippi and he also touched on the architecture of the Lafourche country.
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Speaker: R. Larry Schmidt, President of the Board of Trustees of the BK House and Gardens
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2022
Speaker: Patrick Dunne, owner of Lucullus Antiques in New Orleans
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Speaker: Patrick Dunne, owner of Lucullus Antiques in New Orleans
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2021
Speaker: Dr. Wayne Stromeyer, preservationist
"Chêne Vert's Gardens: Recreating an Early Louisiana Landscape"
Speaker: Dr. Wayne Stromeyer, preservationist
"Chêne Vert's Gardens: Recreating an Early Louisiana Landscape"
2020
Speaker: Claudia Kheel, Adjunct faculty member at the School of Professional Advancement, Tulane University
“A Lasting Legacy: Southern Artistic Tradition”
2019
Speaker: Brock Jobe, Professor emeritus of American Decorative Arts Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
“The Time to Buy: Collecting American Antiques in 2019 and Beyond”
2018
Speaker: Janine Skerry, Senior Curator of Metals Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“The Post Revolution Evolution of Dining in America”
2017
Speaker: Walter Denny, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the university of Massachusetts at Amherst
“Gracious living and the Mysterious East: Oriental Carpets in North America”
2016
Speaker: Thomas Savage, Director of museum affairs The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museums and Gardens
“Life in Low country: Fine and Decorative Arts of Charleston’s Golden Age”
2015
Speaker: Ronald L. Hurst, Vice president for collections, conservation and museums The Carliste H. Humesline, Chief curator of Colonial Williamsburg
“A Rich and Varied Culture: The Material World of the Early South”
2014
Speaker: Carolyn Weekley, Juli Granger curator of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“Painters and Painting in the Early American South”
2013
Speaker: Robert Leath, Chief curator and vice-president of collections and research at the museum of early southern decorative arts in Raleigh North Carolina
“Many Hands, Many Voices: Two Centuries of Southern Furniture 1660–1860”
2012
Speaker: Barbara Ross Luck, Curator of paintings, drawings and sculpture the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“Symposium on American Folk Paintings”
Speaker: Claudia Kheel, Adjunct faculty member at the School of Professional Advancement, Tulane University
“A Lasting Legacy: Southern Artistic Tradition”
2019
Speaker: Brock Jobe, Professor emeritus of American Decorative Arts Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
“The Time to Buy: Collecting American Antiques in 2019 and Beyond”
2018
Speaker: Janine Skerry, Senior Curator of Metals Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“The Post Revolution Evolution of Dining in America”
2017
Speaker: Walter Denny, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the university of Massachusetts at Amherst
“Gracious living and the Mysterious East: Oriental Carpets in North America”
2016
Speaker: Thomas Savage, Director of museum affairs The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museums and Gardens
“Life in Low country: Fine and Decorative Arts of Charleston’s Golden Age”
2015
Speaker: Ronald L. Hurst, Vice president for collections, conservation and museums The Carliste H. Humesline, Chief curator of Colonial Williamsburg
“A Rich and Varied Culture: The Material World of the Early South”
2014
Speaker: Carolyn Weekley, Juli Granger curator of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“Painters and Painting in the Early American South”
2013
Speaker: Robert Leath, Chief curator and vice-president of collections and research at the museum of early southern decorative arts in Raleigh North Carolina
“Many Hands, Many Voices: Two Centuries of Southern Furniture 1660–1860”
2012
Speaker: Barbara Ross Luck, Curator of paintings, drawings and sculpture the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“Symposium on American Folk Paintings”
