Christine..you may wish to look at the summer institute offered by the
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, NC.  They
offer an excellent program (for which you can get 6(?) graduate credits
from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro).  I don't have the
number handy, but you can get it from the AAM directory.

While the focus is on Southern made furniture, it may provide you with
the information you seek.

VivianLea Stevens


Christine Mouw wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> Does anyone know of any connoisseurship workshops or courses
> offered to non-graduate students besides the Winterthur January
> course? (it's a bit late to get into that one this year)
>
> What I really want to learn is how to distinguish styles of objects and their
> place of origin by looking at the object itself.  How, for example, does one
> tell the difference between a chair made in Boston in the 18th century vs.
> one made in Philadelphia during the same time period?
>
> Any help would be, of course, much appreciated.
>
> Chris.
>
> Christine Mouw
> Assistant Curator
> Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum
> West Branch, Iowa  52358
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