Hosted by the Southern California Chapter
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Over the course of their nearly twenty-year partnership, immigrant cabinetmakers Anton Kimbel (1822-1895) and Joseph Cabus (1824-1898) developed one of New York City’s leading furniture and decorating firms, capturing national attention with their inventive Modern Gothic designs. They melded British and Continental design sources to create a wide range of forward-looking forms that appealed to equally adventurous clientele. Join guest curator Barbara Veith and co-author Medill H. Harvey, Ruth Bigelow Wriston Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and manager, The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art for a Zoom lecture in which they share new scholarship and fresh insight into the firm and its contributions to American design history.
Medill Harvey is the Ruth Bigelow Wriston Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and Manager of the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She oversees the collections of American silver, jewelry, and other metalwork, as well as mid-nineteenth-century furniture. She is co-author of Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013) and a contributing author for American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (2016). Her most recent publication is Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. (2021), written to accompany an exhibition that will be mounted at The Met in 2024.
From 2010 to 2017, Barbara Veith was adjunct faculty at the Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons MA Program in the History of Design. She guest-curated Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Company. From 1999 to 2009, she was a research associate in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and contributed to exhibitions that included Women China Decorators in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2001) and Louis Comfort Tiffany at Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estate (2005).
Image: Kimbel and Cabus (New York, 1863–82). Cabinet-Secretary, circa 1875. Painted cherry, gilding, copper, brass, leather, earthenware, 60 × 35 × 14 in. (152.4 × 88.9 × 35.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Bequest of DeLancey Thorn Grant in memory of her mother, Louise Floyd-Jones Thorn, by exchange, 1991.126. (Photo: Gavin Ashworth)
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