52nd Annual Delaware Show

BROCK JOBE Collecting American Furniture within a Changing Marketplace Saturday, November 7, 2:00 pm Pusey & Jones Room “The desk I bought for $7,500 in 1998 is now worth $2,500.” Comments of this sort have become the common refrain of collectors since the recession of 2008. What happened? Why did it happen? What does the future hold? Join Brock Jobe as he reviews the antiques scene of the past two decades and offers hope to those collecting American furniture. About Brock Jobe Professor Emeritus at Winterthur, Brock Jobe recently retired after a 43-year career in the museum field. He has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Colonial Williamsburg; and Historic New England. In 1992 he joined the staff at Winterthur as Deputy Director of Collections and Interpretation and in 2000 moved into the post of Professor of American Decorative Arts. He has taught graduate courses in historic interiors, decorative arts, and twentieth-century design in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Brock co-authored New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (1984), edited Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast (1993), and co-authored Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850 (2009). Most recently he helped direct the collaborative project “Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture,” which united 11 institutions in a celebration of Bay State furnituremaking through exhibitions, publications, and programs. He is a recipient of the President’s Award fromOld Sturbridge Village and the Award of Merit from the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America. — 11 —