Fellowships at Winterthur Museum

Winterthur Museum * Garden * Library invites applications for its
1997-98 residential fellowship programs:

    NEH Fellowships: Available to scholars pursuing advanced
    research for four to twelve months with stipends up to $30,000.

    Winterthur Fellowships: Available to academic, museum,and
    independent scholars, and to support dissertation research for
    one to six months with stipends from $1,000 to $2,000 per month.

Winterthur's rich and varied resources will support research on
pre-industrial crafts, decorative arts, painting and graphics,
early-American industries, foodways, consumerism, and many other
topics in material culture.  We strongly encourage applications from
conservators pursuing research in the historical use of materials.
Past recipients of fellowships include Susan Buck ("An Examination
of Early Paints and Varnishes on Mt. Lebanon Shaker Community
Furniture"), Robert Kelly (historical paperhanging), and Joyce
Storey (the influences of the varied historical developments in the
fields of mechanical and chemical technology on the art and design
of printed cottons, 1750-1875).

Winterthur's resources include a library of approximately half a
million imprints, manuscripts, visual materials, and printed
ephemera from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century and a
museum collection of 89,000 domestic artifacts and works of art made
or used in America to 1860.

Application deadline for the 1997-98 academic year is December 1,
1996.

For an application packet, please write:

    Gretchen Buggeln
    Research Fellowship Program
    Office of Advanced Studies
    Winterthur Museum
    Winterthur, DE  19735
    302-888-4649
    gtbug [at] udel__edu

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