After a two-year hiatus, Preservation Long Island’s Country House Benefit Party is back! Invitations and ticket sales coming soon!
Tag: Decorative Arts
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Uncovering the Past: An Examination of Long Island Coverlet Styles and Motifs
Preservation Long Island’s curatorial intern closely examines its important collection of early nineteenth-century woven coverlets.
Back from Conservation: Edward Lange’s Brown Brothers Huntington Pottery
Edward Lange’s “Huntington Brown Brothers Huntington Pottery” just returned from conservation! Learn about the treatment and history of this important painting of one of Long Island’s oldest and largest potteries.
Collection Close-up: A Souvenir from Central Park, Long Island
Preservation Long Island is proud to be the steward of a robust collection of decorative arts and material culture that reveal life on Long Island long ago. Guest blogger and volunteer, Gary Hammond, explores the history behind one intriguing object in our collection.
New to the Collection: A Tall-Case Clock by Willet Hicks
The latest addition to Preservation Long Island’s outstanding collection of regional decorative arts is a rare Queen-Anne-style cherrywood tall-case clock made in eastern Queens County (now Nassau) around 1785 by Quaker craftsman and preacher, Willet Hicks (1765–1845).
Americana Week Book Event
Join Preservation Long Island for a special book release event at Christie’s New York.