Past Speaker Diane C. Wachs Specialist in American and European Arts

Diane C. Wachs

Diane C. Wachs is a specialist in American and European Decorative Arts of the 18^th and 19^th centuries.  A graduate of Trinity College, Washington, DC, and the Cooper-Hewett National Design Museum’s History of Decorative Arts Masters’ Program, in New York, New York.

In graduate school, Ms. Wachs spend two months in North Carolina at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, or M.E.S.D.A. It was there she developed an interest in things Southern, and in particular, Kentucky furniture.

As the Director of the Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY., from 1994-2001, she curated and mounted exhibitions on American and European furniture, Kentucky furniture and regional material culture.  She has spoken extensively and published on Kentucky furniture. From 2001 until 2006, Wachs was also an adjunct professor, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of architecture and decorative art at the University of Kentucky’s College of Design.

At Cowan Auctions, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ms. Wachs is the Director of the Fine and Decorative Art Department, overseeing three major auctions a year and thirteen minor ones. Together with the support of four outstanding specialists in American and European paintings and portraiture, silver, porcelain, furniture and art glass, she is responsible for the material in the sale, production of the sale and printed catalogues, and treatment and care of consignors in the sale.

Please join members of the American Furniture Collectors on Saturday, October 13 to hear

Diane Wachs speak on “Regionalism in Furniture of the Old South”.

Your Steering Committee

 Diane C. Wachs

Diane C. Wachs is a specialist in American and European Decorative Arts of the 18^th and 19^th centuries.  A graduate of Trinity College, Washington, DC, and the Cooper-Hewett National Design Museum’s History of Decorative Arts Masters’ Program, in New York, New York.

In graduate school, Ms. Wachs spend two months in North Carolina at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, or M.E.S.D.A. It was there she developed an interest in things Southern, and in particular, Kentucky furniture.

As the Director of the Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY., from 1994-2001, she curated and mounted exhibitions on American and European furniture, Kentucky furniture and regional material culture.  She has spoken extensively and published on Kentucky furniture. From 2001 until 2006, Wachs was also an adjunct professor, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of architecture and decorative art at the University of Kentucky’s College of Design.

At Cowan Auctions, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ms. Wachs is the Director of the Fine and Decorative Art Department, overseeing three major auctions a year and thirteen minor ones. Together with the support of four outstanding specialists in American and European paintings and portraiture, silver, porcelain, furniture and art glass, she is responsible for the material in the sale, production of the sale and printed catalogues, and treatment and care of consignors in the sale.

Please join members of the American Furniture Collectors on Saturday, October 13 to hear

Diane Wachs speak on “Regionalism in Furniture of the Old South”.

Your Steering Committee