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Metropolitan Museum of Art Tour on Feb. 2nd

Please join us on February 2nd, 2010 at 4pm for a curator-led tour of ceramics with Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen in the American Wing. The tour will include works from the Robert Ellison Collection. RSVP to Lisa Chicoyne. Free for current GHP students or $15 for guests, send a check to Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, NYC, 10014.

(We will meet in the Great Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 3:45pm)

ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN is the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  Her current projects include research for an upcoming publication on the recent Promised Gift of American Art Pottery, the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection.  Installed in thirteen cases on the new mezzanine balcony of the Charles Engelhard Court in the American Wing, the Ellison Collection showcases an eighty-year continuum in the history of American ceramics from 1876 to 1954, representing a wide range of stylistic and technical achievements.  The installation was part of the complete renovation of the Courtyard which she oversaw for the New American Wing, which opened this spring.

Ms. Frelinghuysen has published widely on the subject of American ceramics and glass with a special focus on the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, including most recently, the exhibition and book, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall— An Artist’s Country Estate, (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007).  She also contributed an essay on Louis Comfort Tiffany’s jewelry in Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987 (London: The Gilbert Collection, 2006); on Tiffany and New York City in Art Nouveau (London and Washington D. C.: Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Gallery of Art, 2000); on the domestic interiors of Louis Comfort Tiffany for Louis C. Tiffany: Meisterwerke des amerikanischen Jugendstils (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1999).  In 1998 she organized the exhibition and wrote the publication Louis Comfort Tiffany at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1998).   She has also co-curated and co-authored Chinese Export Porcelain at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2003); Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age (1994); Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection (1993); American Porcelain, 1770-1920 (1989); and In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement (1986). 

Image: Vase, 1895–1908
Dedham Pottery (1895–1943) by Hugh C. Robertson (1845–1908)
Stoneware, H: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)
Promised Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., Photograph Robert A. Ellison Jr.