Joseph Cunningham

Joseph Cunningham, Ph.D. is the curatorial director of ADA1900.  He is curator of the exhibition The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs and author of the accompanying scholarly book, which has received three prestigious awards.  His prior publication Design Is Not Art was awarded the Robert Smith Award by the Decorative Art Society.  Dr. Cunningham previously held the position of Curator and Department Head of the Department of Contemporary Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts.  He is collaborating with the Dallas Museum of Art on the forthcoming Gustav Stickley exhibition and book, to which he will contribute an essay on Irene Sargent and the ideological foundations of the United Crafts and Craftsman enterprises.

Bruce Barnes

Bruce Barnes, Ph.D. is the president and founder of ADA1900.  In 1990, Dr. Barnes began collecting American decorative arts from the period around 1900, with a focus on the American Arts & Crafts and Prairie School movements.  Over two decades, he has assembled one of the definitive collections in this area, with over 300 objects, including furniture, ceramics, metalwork, lighting, glass and textiles.  

American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation is a non-profit foundation, organized in 2005.

Joseph Cunningham, Ph.D.
Curatorial Director
(212) 501-9672
jc@ada1900.org

Bruce Barnes, Ph.D.
President and Founder
(917) 208-6499
bruce@ada1900.org