Gallery Tour - American Revolutionaries: Tea, Sociability, and Revolution
American Revolutionaries is a series of gallery talks given by members of the curatorial team in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States. Each talk highlights artworks from the Burrows Gallery of American Decorative Arts, including silver from the Henry Morris and Elizabeth H. Burrows collection, which came to the Clark from an anonymous loan to celebrate the Bicentennial of the United States in 1976.
The series concludes with an exploration of works of silver and furniture. Alexis Goodin, curator of Decorative arts, discusses the importance of tea in the daily life of colonial Americans. Goodin focuses on the women who helped organize a boycott of the hot beverage after the British government imposed the Tea Act of 1773.
Free with gallery admission.
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Image: John Brevoort, Teapot, c. 1740, silver and wood. The Clark, bequest of Henry Morris and Elizabeth H Burrows, 2003.4.265