Each year, members of the Research Committee of the Docents of The Mint Museum present the fruits of their research into individually selected works and artists represented at the Mint Museum of Art and the Mint Museum of Craft + Design. The research and presentations allow individual docents to pursue their areas of interest and to share their expanded knowledge with all docents associated with the Mint.

Hard copies of the research papers are archived in The Mint Museum Library. Links below allow you to open and read/print or save a copy of the paper.

Docent Research Papers 2009

Papers presented April 20, 2009

The asterisk indicates those papers that were presented at the docent meeting on the 20th. 

• Newcomb Pottery: An Introduction by Edla Brabham*
• Ukiyo-e Japanese Wood Block Printing by Sharon Burns
• The Life and Work of American Photographer Berenice Abbott by Julie Cassen*
• Featherwork of Ancient Mesoamerica by Pam Conrad*
• Augusta Savage by Aleen Epstein
• The Connection of African Art and Early European Contemporary Art by Ethel Gordon*
• The Mayan Calendar: the Ending of a Cycle by Martha Rucker
• Tom Patti: Handheld Objects to Architectural Sculpture by Judith Toman*
• Allan Ramsay's Coronation Portraits by Mark Watkins

Current and Previous Docent Research Papers

The table below, designed and developed by Docent Ross Loeser, contains links to the Docent Research Papers of current and previous years. You can sort this table by clicking on the heading of your choice. For example, if you want to sort by author/docent, click on the heading Author/Docent for descending alphabetical order. Click again for ascending order. The sorting only effects how YOU view the table. It does not affect how any one else views the table. Research Paper titles with a yellow background were presented to the Docents at their last annual meeting of the given year. To view the complete table, scroll to the bottom of the page and scroll to the right OR expand the page by selecting the small triangle to the right of the heading "Docent Research Papers."