[MassHistPres] Conference: A Rich and Varied Palette: Coloring New England’s Past, September 13-14, 2024

[Amanda Lange]

For posting on the Mass Historic Preservation website:

Historic Deerfield’s 2024 Fall Forum,* A Rich and Varied Palette: Coloring
New England’s Past*, Deerfield, Massachusetts, September 13-14, 2004, convenes
a group of leading researchers, conservators, curators, and scholars to
explore the vast subject of color and its history. Research and publication
in the history of color has been growing in recent decades, but few studies
have examined color’s impact on specific cultural regions, such as New
England. The program’s lectures will focus on the diverse topics of global
colorants and textiles, lithoprints in 1840s New England, painted furniture
at the Bath Academy, japanned furniture, Shakers’ color use and meanings,
New England’s textile bleaching industries, chrome yellow and pink as
pigments, and the paints and finishes of the Rockingham (Vermont) meeting
house.

Historic Deerfield is home to one of the finest collections of New England
architecture, interiors, and decorative arts of the 18th and 19th
centuries. Rich in locally made and imported objects, the collection ranges
widely from painted and japanned furniture, dyed, painted, and printed
textiles, embroidered needlework and samplers, and paintings, drawings,
watercolors and colored prints and maps. The museum’s Library also features
the superb collection of Stephen L. Wolf (1917 – 2008), composed of
pamphlets, trade catalogs, periodicals, and ephemera on applied color
dating from the late 1500s to the present.

Despite the pervasive misconception of drabness, New England embraced color
as a reflection of refinement and status, a visual display of commerce and
the global economy, and a defining element of cultural difference, regional
identity, and social and racial hierarchies. Through lectures, workshops,
and tours, participants will experience the latest scholarship on color and
gain a better understanding of the role of color in New England material
life.

Registration for the forum can be found at this link:
https://www.historic-deerfield.org/events/fall-forum-coloring-new-englands-past/
For more information, please contact Ian Hamilton,
ihamilton at historic-deerfield.org or 413-775-7179. A PDF brochure is also
available.

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Amanda Lange
Curatorial Department Director and Curator of Historic Interiors
Historic Deerfield, Inc.
P. O. Box 321
Deerfield, MA 01342
(413) 775-7206
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