Friday, September 10, 2004

Montgomery Connoisseurship Competition

In the 1960s, Charles F. Montgomery initiated a competition that required each second-year WPEAC Fellow to find an important, rare, or historically or aesthetically significant object suitable for museum acquisition. The object did not have to be appropriate for Winterthur's collections; it could be for another museum, but the relevance to that museum had to be defended.

In 1995, at the urging of then-Director Dwight Lanmon, the exercise was reinstated as the Charles Montgomery Connoisseurship Competition. This year's competition has been scheduled for Friday, September 10, 2004 at 3:00 p.m. in the Rotunda (with a reception following at about 5:30 p.m.). If you wish to attend the reception, please call or email Pat Elliott, x4649, pelliott@winterthur.org