The Art of Display: The American Pedestal, 1830-1910
Coming Fall 2018
With an essay by Ruthie Dibble, Conner • Rosenkranz' next catalog will examine the role of the pedestal in the nineteenth‐century American home.
"Despite their prevalence in historic interiors, museum collections and period paintings and photographs, pedestals remain under‐studied as objects in themselves and as part of the history of the nineteenth‐century interior. If nothing else, the attention that American artists lavished on having precisely the right pedestal made for their sculptures should have marked the pedestal out as a rich area of inquiry..."