Explore exhibitions from 1999.
1999 | Exhibitions from 1999
Explore exhibitions from 1999.
This exhibition featured the personal collection of U of M professor Tim Blade, who died of lymphoma in 1996. Blade was considered the regional expert on the subject of collecting and used his collections as teaching tools. The retrospective told the story of those who influenced him, encouraged his love of art and history, and the mentors who set him in motion. He collected American federal furniture, 17 and 18th century old master drawings and watercolors, Oriental rugs and European and Chinese decorative arts.
Fashions and Furniture of the Titanic coincided with Titanic…the exhibition and presented clothing from c. 1912. Exhibits included heavily embellished women's evening dresses, finely tailored day suits, men's evening wear and a child's sailor suit. Women's dress in particular underwent drastic changes in the years leading up to the First World War.
