Speakers on Art History & Horology

JAMES ARTHUR LECTURETIME IN AMERICAN PAINTING - John Wilmerding, Sarofim      Professor of American  Art,  Emeritus, Princeton University.

SATURDAY BANQUET SPEAKER:  Gerald W.R. Ward, Katharine Lane Weems Senior  Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture Emeritus at the Museum of Fine  Arts, Boston.  "Frozen in Time: The Museum as History's Clock."

AMERICAN CLOCKS AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON - Dennis Carr,  Carolyn  and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture
 Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CLOCKS IN FRENCH PORTRAITS FROM BOUCHER   TO DAVID:  Philippe Bordes, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Lyon;  Advisor for  the Arts, Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Paris.

MECHANICAL JEWELS: THE ART OF THE WATCH 1500-1800 - Jonathan Snellenburg,  Director, Watches and Clocks, Bonhams New York.

ELABORATE CLOCKS AT THE CHINESE COURT - Catherine Pagani, Ph.D.,   AssociatDean and Assistant to the Provost, The University of Alabama.

TIMEPIECES IN VICTORIAN GENRE PAINTING - Louise Cooling,  Curator of Paintings,       Royal Collection Trust, London

ART, CLOCKS AND WATCHES IN RENAISSANCE EUROPE - Philip Poniz, Horological    Expert, Historian & Restorer. Princeton, NJ

SURREALIST WOMEN ARTISTS:  ON TIME - Colleene FeskoFine Art Appraiser,  Broker   and  Independent  Curator

"WINDING THE CLOCK": A WINSLOW HOMER WATERCOLOR -  Stephen Caffey,                 Assistant Professor, Department of    Architecture, Texas A&M University

TIME AND TIMEKEEPING IN EDWARD LAMSON HENRY'S GENRE PAINTINGS -                 Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator, Florence Griswold  Museum 

PRINTS:  PICTURES (AND CLOCKS) FOR THE PEOPLE - Peter Sorlien, ASA,  appraiser  of art and antiques, Accredited Appraisers, Marblehead, MA 

ANCIENT EGYPT: KEEPING TIME IN A TIMELESS SOCIETY  -  Lawrence M.  Berman Norma Jean Calderwood  Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, &  Near  Eastern  Art, Museum of Fine  Arts, Boston

TIME IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN GENRE PAINTING -   Ross Barrett, Assistant Professor, American  Art, Boston University

TREASURES FROM THE DEEP: EUROPEAN CLOCKS IN THE MFA'S VAULTS  -   Thomas   Michie, Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp Stearns Senior Curator of  Decorative Arts  and Sculpture, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

WITHOUT BORDERS: KEEPING TRACK OF TIME IN BYZANTIUM -  Lana  SloutskyPhD, History of Art & Architecture Department, Boston University


Symposium Chairman - Bob Frishman  978-475-5001

Museum Coordinator:  Dennis Carr, Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture. Art of the Americas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston