American Classical Furniture, 1810-35

Matthew A. Thurlow is the executive director, Decorative Arts Trust Board. Prior to heading the Trust, Matt served as assistant director of Development for Major Gifts and Planned Giving at Winterthur; and research associate and installations coordinator in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wendy A. Cooper is curator emerita and formerly the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture, Winterthur Museum. Clark Pearce is an independent furniture historian who serves as an advisor to collectors and institutions in America and internationally, and manages conservation projects for private clients and museums. After a thirty-year career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peter M. Kenny retired in 2014 as the Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American Decorative Arts and administrator of the American Wing. Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley is the Montgomery-Garvan curator of American decorative arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gregory Weidman is nationally recognized as a leading authority on Maryland furniture and historic interiors. She is a curator at Hampton National Historic Site in Baltimore County, and curator for Baltimore’s other National Park Service site, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. For over 30 years Christine Thomson has been a furniture and decorative surfaces conservator with emphasis on the study and treatment of painted, lacquered, gilded and varnished surfaces.