Clockwise: The Miniature Collection of R. Lee Taylor (Museum of the Shenandoah Valley), In the Hands of Women: Original Jewelry Design in Early to Mid-20th-Century Paris
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Join curator Elizabeth Lay, a regular lecturer on the topics of fashion, textiles, and American furniture, for an image-rich lunchtime lecture series focusing on decorative arts and design topics.
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The Miniature Collection of R. Lee Taylor
The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia, houses a great hidden treasure in the R. Lee Taylor Miniature Gallery: a collection of 14 houses and rooms furnished with more than 4,000 exquisite objects that represent more than 70 of the leading miniaturists of the day. They range from historic recreations such as the Shadow-on-the-Teche estate located in Louisiana to Lee Hall, the fantasy mansion he never owned.
Lee commissioned miniature artist Daniel McNeil to create houses and collected the work of the renowned Eugene Kupjack. His interiors were impeccable down to the smallest detail. In Lee Hall the books include actual text, and the attic of another is filled with broken miniature furniture. Curator Nick Powers joins Lay to share the story of this collection and close-up images of the houses’ extraordinary details not possible to see in person.
Powers graduated from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware, and as the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley’s curator of collections he oversees, researches, and exhibits the fine and decorative arts of the region ranging from the earliest settlements to the present day.
Additional Sessions
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