Dr. Jonathan Clancy
Programme Director, American Fine & Decorative Art, New York



A message from Jonathan Clancy:

As many of you know, with Carrie Barratt’s promotion to Associate Director for Collections and Administration at the Metropolitan, I have assumed the role of Programme Director in American Fine & Decorative Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Among this year’s new initiatives is a cataloging project with the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, a site you all know well. We have developed a seminar which allows students to collaborate and work together to hone their research skills while working with paintings by Gilbert Stuart, Robert Feke, John Smibert, just to name a few. Upon completion of this project, the library has committed to publish a catalog featuring our work, as well as to make research available online. Rather than simply focusing on case studies, the American Fine & Decorative Art Programme is committed to intensive research projects that provides a practical application for future endeavors, and contributes to the professional literature.

Recent publications and professional activities include:

February 2010
“Fresh Perspectives on the Arts and Crafts,” opening address, 23rd Annual Arts and Crafts Conference, Grove Park Inn, Ashville, North Carolina.

In process Arts and Crafts Metalwork from the Two Red Roses Collection (Tarpon Springs: 2010).

September 2009
“Living the Simple Life,” invited lecturer, Craftsman Farms, Parsippany, NJ.

July 2009
“Thoreau, Elbert Hubbard, and the Arts and Crafts Movement in America,” Journal of Modern Craft (London).

June 2009
“Heade, the Hudson, and the Luminists,” Symposium for Home on the Hudson: Women and Men Painting Landscapes, 1825-75, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.

April 2009
“Pottery of the Arts and Crafts Movement,” Lecture, American Art Pottery Association Annual Convention, Langhorne, PA.


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