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Biography

Josh Lane teaches the Furniture portion of the Connoisseurship courses for the Winterthur Program. Lane specializes in early American furniture and its cultural contexts. Research interests include collaboration with conservation and curatorial colleagues to study furniture woods and other materials that circulated in the global economy.

Lane joined the curatorial staff at Winterthur Museum in 2014 as Curator of Furniture. Previously, he served as both Curator of Furniture and Curator of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield, Inc. At Deerfield, he curated two permanent furniture exhibitions (see select exhibitions) as part of the 鈥淔our Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture鈥� collaboration. While at Winterthur, he has curated聽Cultivating Style in a Multi-Ethnic World: New York Furniture, 1650-1850, and, in conjunction with staff in Winterthur鈥檚 Conservation department,聽Brittle Beauty: Understanding and Conserving Chinese Export Lacquer. He has taught undergraduate courses in American Studies and material culture at Yale University, Miami University of Ohio and both undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Education

• B.A., Amherst College (American Studies)
• M.A., M.Phil., Yale University

Selected Publications

• 鈥淭he Full Splendor of Beauty and Grace: Understanding Design and Proportion in New England Furniture,鈥� lead article,聽Historic Deerfield Magazine听(2010)
• With E. K. Gronning and R. F. Trent, 鈥淒utch Joinery in Seventeenth-Century Windsor, Connecticut and the Origins of the 鈥楬adley鈥� Style in the Connecticut River Valley,鈥澛�Maine Antiques Digest听(2007)
• With D. P. White III: 鈥淔raming Furniture and Fashioning Community: Woodworkers and the Rise of a Connecticut River Valley Town, 1635-1715鈥� in聽American Furniture聽(2005)
• 鈥淭he Rise and Fall of the Yankee Forest,鈥� lead article,聽Historic Deerfield Magazine听(2004)
• With D. P. White III,聽The Woodworkers of Windsor: A Connecticut Community of Craftsmen and Their聽World聽(exhibition catalog) (2003)
• 鈥淩ace as a Category in Colonial America,鈥� in聽Encyclopedia of American聽Cultural History听(2001)

Select Exhibitions

• Brittle Beauty: Understanding and Conserving Chinese Export Lacquer, Winterthur Museum (2105)
• Cultivating Style in a Multi-Ethnic World: New York Furniture, 1650-1850, Winterthur Museum (2014)
• Educating the Mind鈥檚 Eye: The Art of Young Adults, 1790-1840. Flynt Center for New England Life, Historic Deerfield, Inc. (2013)
• Furniture Masterworks: Tradition and Innovation in Western Massachusetts. Wright House, Historic Deerfield, Inc. (2013)
• Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture. Flynt Center for New England Life, Historic Deerfield, Inc. (2006)
• Northampton Furniture in the Collection of Historic Deerfield: Two Centuries of Design, Smith College Museum of Art (2004)