Unlike their English contemporaries, who cleared, settled, and conquered the land, Dutch colonists in North America navigated the land, establishing urban trading posts and leaving a lighter footprint on the landscape. Domestic structures were smaller, many items were imported from the Netherlands and via Dutch merchant networks, and prized household goods tended to be portable items. Edward S. Cooke, Jr., the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts, Professor of American Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of American Art and Material Culture at Yale, explores the Dutch household in the New World—one that was familiar but nevertheless different from homes back in the Netherlands. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Fund.



Note: This lecture is the fifth in the series “The Dutch Abroad and What They Brought Back.” All lectures are held in the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall. Seating is limited. Doors open one hour prior to each lecture. Free tickets to the lecture are handed out in the lobby beginning one hour prior; ticket holders are guaranteed a seat.