Folk and Folks: Variations on the Vernacular: The 8th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts

This volume includes the following papers delivered at the 8th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, held Feb. 1-3, 2016: The Story of Southern, in Pictures by Robert M. Hicklin Jr.; The Illusive Miss Cox: A Search for the Identity of a Clarke County Portrait by Laura Pass Barry; Woman in a Man's World: Louise DuBose and the Battleship Georgia Silver by Deborah Prosser; Starrs and Stripes: Georgia Silver and Southern Filibusters by Caroline G. Rainey; John Abbot: Early Georgia s Naturalist Artist by Beth Fowkes Tobin; 'Received . . . in a Most Friendly Manner': Moravians in Georgia by Johanna Metzgar Brown; Mary Jane Smithey's Memorial Embroidery by Kathleen Staples; The Creolized Kitchen: Interpreting the Life of a Catawba Indian-Made Pan from Urban Charleston, 1800 1830 by Kelly Sharp; A Masked Tradition: British Porcelain and Georgia Folk Pottery by Joseph D. Litts; Wedding Jug or Flower Vase: A Stoneware Vessel Explored by Suzanne Findlen Hood; Religion, Land, and Cultural Tradition: Johannes Spitler of the Shenandoah Valley, 1790 1809 by Elizabeth A. Davison; 'The Tree of Life, My Soul Hath Seen : Painted Dower Chests in Walton County, Georgia by Sumpter Priddy III; Under Continental Influences: Current Research into the Long-Block Group of Georgia Furniture by Dale L. Couch and Joseph D. Litts; 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 2018

216 pages; (softcover)

ISBN: 978-1946657053