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The Home of the Legendary A. Everett "Chick" Austin, Jr.
The Austin House, located at 130 Scarborough Street in Hartford, is a National Historic Landmark and the former home of A. Everett "Chick" Austin, Jr., the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's innovative director from 1927 to 1944. It is appointed with unique examples of eighteenth and twentieth century European furniture and decorative arts. In the 1930s it was a gathering place for leaders of the international art world, including Salvador Dalí, Alexander Calder, Gertrude Stein, George Balanchine, Le Corbusier, Cecil Beaton, Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, Aaron Copland, and Virgil Thomson.
The director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has graciously agreed to invite all of those who make a contribution to the Sarah Goodwin Austin Memorial Fund to visit the home by appointment.
Magic Facade: The Austin House
October 20, 2007 - February 20, 2008
Related Programming:
The Austin House: Secrets Revealed
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
6:00 p.m. Aetna Theater
To celebrate the restoration of the Austin House, Curator Eugene Gaddis will escort you through A. Everett "Chick" Austin, Jr.'s "magic facade" and into the fantasy world where Baroque met Bauhaus and the parties lasted until dawn when Dali, Calder, and Balanchine were in town. Krystyn Hastings-Silver, the restoration project manager, will reveal the detective work she carried out to recreate the magic of the house and recapture the spirit of Chick Austin, the Atheneum's extravagant director from 1927 to 1944.
Eugene R. Gaddis, William G. DeLana Archivist and Curator of the Austin House and Krystyn Hastings-Silver, Austin House Restoration Project Manager, 1998- 2007, and current Restoration Project Director at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, New York.
Tea at the Austin House: Living with Chick
Friday, November 9 or December 7, 2:00 -4:00 p.m.
Eugene Gaddis, William G. DeLana Archivist and Curator of the Austin House.
The personality of A. Everett "Chick" Austin, Jr., Director of the Wadsworth Atheneum from 1927 to 1944 is revealed in his avant-garde taste, visible at his home on Scarborough Street. This insider's tour will explore the character of Chick Austin through the lens of his home and its newly restored furnishings. The program will conclude with the unique experience of a tea, served by the Curator in the Austin House dining room.
Enrollment at each tea is limited to 12 participants.
$80/$70 for members.
For further information, please call (860) 278-2670, ext. 3049.
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