Connections: Georgia in the World: The Seventh Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts

This volume includes the following papers delivered at the seventh Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, held Jan. 30 through Feb. 1, 2014: "Revealing Georgia: Viewing the Cultural Landscape through Prints and Maps," by Margaret Beck Pritchard; "Utilitarian Earthenware in the Ebenezer Settlement, Effingham County, Georgia," by Daniel T. Elliott; "Worldly Goods for a Chosen People: The Material Culture of Savannah s Colonial Jewish Community," by Daniel Kurt Ackermann; "Considerations of William Verelst s 'The Common Council of Georgia Receiving the Indian Chiefs,' 1734 36," by Kathleen Staples; "Materiality in the Gullah Geechee Culture: The Kitchen in the Heart of the Story," by Althea Sumpter; "Colonial South Carolina Indigo: Red, White, and Black Made Blue," by Andrea Feeser; "Scarf and Dress Designs by Frankie Welch: Highlighting Georgia Through Her Americana," by Ashley Callahan; "Georgia's Textile Connections: Imports, Homespun and Industry," by Madelyn Shaw; "Weaving History: The Yeoman, the Slave, the Coverlet," by Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith; "Capitalism and Revolution: A Staffordshire Mug and Its Anti-Monarchial Message," by Lauren Word; "Sumptuous Goods: The McKinne-Whitehead-Rowland Collection at the Georgia Museum of Art," by Julia N. Jackson; "Valley View: Reflecting on a Place, Its People, and Its Furnishings," by Maryellen Higginbotham; "Mexican Silver in an Antebellum Georgia Household," by Carolyn Shuler; "From London to Shanghai, 1780 1920: How Five Generations of Yonges and Brownes Brought Their Silver to Columbus, Georgia," by Sandra Strother Hudson; and "Shopping from London to Naples for a Future Country Palace in Macon: William and Anne Tracy Johnston on the Grand Tour, 1851 1854," by Jonathan H. Poston, as well as a foreword by museum director William Underwood Eiland and acknowledgments and a focus on a recent acqusition by Dale L. Couch, curator, Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Publishing Date: February 2016

224 pages; Softcover

ISBN: 978-0-915977-92-5