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  • Deborah Waters

    Part-Time Faculty

    Email
    watersdd@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street

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    Deborah Waters

    Profile

    Currently Independent curator, American material culture.  President, New York Silver Society, Inc. Formerly Senior Curator, Decorative Arts, Museum of the City of New York, 1986-2008. Curator/contributor to exhibitions including An Elegant Assortment: The Furniture of Duncan Phyfe and His Contemporaries, 1800-1840; The Artistic New York of Louis Comfort Tiffany; Is It Phyfe?; A Treasury of New York Silver; Furniture of Distinction; Tolerance and Identity:  Jews in Early New York, 1654-1825; Catholics in New York, 1808-1946. Editor/author, Elegant Plate (2 vols., 2000); lead author, The Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmermann (2011); author, A Handsome Cupboard of Plate:  Early American Silver in the Cahn Collection (2012), which accompanies a touring exhibition organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

    Recent Publications

    lead author, The Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmermann (New York and New Haven:  American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation and Yale University Press, 2011; author, A Handsome Cupboard of Plate:  Early American Silver in the Cahn Collection (Cambridge, England:  John Adamson in association with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2012)

    Research Interests

    American decorative arts, museum studies

    Current Courses

    Brit & Amer Silver 1700-1950

    Independent Study

    Independent Study (Spring 2020)

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