California Collectors - Woodside, CA

	Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009 Time: 10am-3:30pm Location: Filoli 86 Canada Road Woodside, CA Fee: $175. Appraisers $195. Non-Members & late registration- after May 20
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We have planned an exciting and enriching day at this country estate built in 1915 by William Bower Bourn II, one of the last of the California Gold Barons. Designed by Willis Polk, this modified Georgian manor is furnished with 17th-19th century antiques. In 1975 the estate then owned by Mrs. William P. Roth was donated to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is now open to the public. During and after the presentations we will try to allow time to view the property.

Speakers:

	“The Importance of Donations” Tom Rogers, Curator of Collections at Filoli, is responsible for the preservation and placement of the furniture and decorative arts displayed in the home. He has been on staff since the home was open to the public in the late 1970\'s and will give us an overview of the importance of donations to the fulfillment of this estate as a living museum. Filoli is unique amongst the National Trust for Historic Preservation properties in that the goal is to present the interior of the home and the famous gardens as close as possible to the way it was when lived in by the Bourns and subsequently by the Roths.
	“Melvin Martin: Collector and Friend” Jim Evans of Evans and Gerst Antiques, West Hollywood, California will give us a personal portrait of a major donor to Filoli. A graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts, Mr. Evans worked at Hearst Castle and on the Queen Mary Project before opening his antique store with his partner, Tom Gerst, in 1974. Melvin Martin gifted his entire collection of 17th-19th century furniture, paintings and decorative arts upon his death in 1998 to Filoli.
	“Tricks of the Trade: Determining Authenticity” Leila Lyons of Lyons Ltd. Antique Prints, Palo Alto, California will give a "hands-on" presentation centering on forming a print collection- actual examples of real and reproduction prints will be circulated. Mrs. Lyons and her late husband, Dr. Charles R. Lyons shared a love and knowledge of original prints of all periods and built a substantial collection spanning over five hundred years of graphic art and founded Lyons Antique Prints in 1968. A frequent lecturer and gifted writer, Mrs. Lyons latest book is "Collecting Prints" commissioned by Random House in 2006. She is a member of the International Society of Appraisers, past president and board member of the California Antique Dealers Association, a member of the Art & Antique Dealers League of America, the Confederation Internationale de Negociants en Oeuvres d\'Art and the Antiques Council.
	“California Women Collectors” Diane Macleod was a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of California Davis from 1981-2007. She served as Director of the Department from 1999-2002 and is currently Professor Emerita. Amongst the books she has authored are Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940 (University of California Press: 2008) and Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity (Cambridge University Press: 1996). Dr. Macleod will give us insight into some of the influential California women collectors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The fee will include a delicious box lunch which will be served on the Filoli tennis courts, admission to the grounds and the complete speaker series with four hours of continuing education credit. Non-ASA members are welcome to attend at the appropriate fee level.

For registration or further information contact elnewellappraise@pacbell.net