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Catherine Buttery Hollan has been researching, writing, and lecturing on American silver for thirty years. Since the late 1980s she has been working with the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Old Salem, North Carolina, on the illustrated Virginia Silversmiths, the Branching of the Trade forthcoming. In 1994 she wrote the catalog and curated the exhibition In the Neatest Most Fashionable Manner: Three Centuries of Alexandria Silver at The Lyceum in Alexandria, Virginia.
Catherine graduated from Goucher College with a B.A in English and math minor, and from Georgetown University with an M.S. in computational linguistics. She developed computerized search tools at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and retired as the manager of their Public Search Rooms in 2003. Since then she has enjoyed more time to research southern silversmiths. Catherine is president of the American Silver Guild, a special interest group of collectors and curators based in the Washington, D.C. area. She lives in McLean, Virginia.
Curated or consulted on silver and exhibitions at:
- The Lyceum
- Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
- Arlington Historical Society
Published books or articles include:
- In the Neatest Most Fashionable Manner, Three Centuries of Alexandria Silver
- "Baltimore Apprenticeships in Silversmithing," Silver in Maryland
- "Of the Latest Style, Silver at MESDA," Magazine Antiques
- "Skippets, Diplomatic Silver Boxes," 48th Washington Antique Show Catalog
- several in Silver Magazine
- two in Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
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Lectured at:
- 60th Colonial Williamsburg Antique Forum
- Winterthur Museum, Silver Symposium American Silver of the Early 19th Century
- Third Henry D. Green Symposium in the Decorative Arts, Georgia Museum of Art
- Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), Summer Institute
- Colonial Dames, Dumbarton House
- Washington Decorative Arts Forum
- Antiquarian Society, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- Decorative Arts Trust Forum
