Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom

“Amy Dehan’s Joseph Urban: Unlocking An Art Deco Bedroom brings back the work of this master of color, light, and design, who is largely and undeservedly forgotten today.“—Jennifer B. Lee, Curator, Performing Arts Collections, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Amy Miller Dehan is the Curator of Decorative Arts and Design. Dehan joined the Cincinnati Art Museum in 2001. She was part of the curatorial team that developed The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the Queen City and has worked on various installations of the Museum’s American and European art collections. Her writing on decorative arts and design has appeared in catalogues including Cincinnati Silver: 1788-1940; Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art Glass; and Cincinnati Art Carved Furniture and Interiors. She has also been published in The Magazine ANTIQUES, Silver Magazine, Gastronomica, and other periodicals. Dehan has curated multiple exhibitions for the Cincinnati Art Museum, including Cincinnati Silver (2014); The Art of Sound: Four Centuries of Musical Instruments (2012); Going Dutch: Contemporary Design from Local Collections and the Cincinnati Art Museum (2011); Force of Nature: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection (2010); and Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection (2009). Dehan earned her B.A. from the College of William and Mary and her M.A. from the University of South Carolina. She is an alumnus of The Winterthur Fall Institute and the Attingham Summer School. She held internships and fellowships at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has worked in the field of decorative arts for over ten years.

Elizabeth MCGoey, Ph.D. is the Ann S. and Samuel M. Mencoff Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts, Art Institute of Chicago.

Christopher Long is Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor, American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Architecture,University of Texas at Austin.