The Art of French Wallpaper Design exhibition celebrated the Rhode Island School of Design Museum’s extraordinary collection of French 18th and 19th century wallpapers. The histories of design, production, and use of these papers were told through a collection of approximately 500 wallpapers, borders, fragments, and design drawings amassed by one couple, Charles and Frances Wilson Huard, and acquired by the museum in 1934. Emily Banas, the Associate Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the RISD Museum, will discuss how the collection stands as evidence of the time-intensive and highly skilled art of woodblock printing, and the foresight of the Huards to preserve this material for generations.
Pictured: View of Venice Wallpaper, ca. 1840. Mary B. Jackson Fund. Rhode Island School of Design Museum.
$12 adults; $5 students; FREE for Fine Arts Society Members