Ann K. Wagner

Biography

Ann Wagner (Program Alumna) teaches the Metals portion of the Connoisseurship courses for the Winterthur Program. She is responsible for approximately 20,000 silver and jewelry, metalwork, and related composite material objects such as lighting, firearms, clocks and organic objects at Winterthur Museum.

Wagner  joined the curatorial staff in 2004 immediately following her master’s degree from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Ms. Wagner previously was the curatorial assistant for the department of European and American decorative arts at the Seattle Art Museum. At Winterthur, Ms. Wagner enjoys introducing graduate students and the public to decorative arts and material culture through exhibitions, workshops, and classes. She has lectured to audiences from Los Angeles to Williamsburg and has contributed articles about American silver for publications including The Magazine Antiques, Antiques & Fine Art, and Silver Magazine. Ms. Wagner is an alumna of the Attingham Summer School, and member of the London Silver Society, the New York Silver Society, the American Ceramics Circle, the Association of Art Museum Curators, and The Royal Oak Foundation.

Education

• M.A., University of Delaware (Winterthur Program in American Material Culture)
• M.A., University of Washington (Art History)
• B.A., Wheaton College (English Literature)

Select Publications

• Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (contributing author) (2017)
• “Cleaning Time,” Antiques & Fine Art (2017)
• “Matchsafe Mysteries Illuminated,” Antiques & Fine Art (2015)
• “Why Not a Silver Posset Pot?” Silver Magazine (2014)
  
• “Pierced, Punched, Painted: Decorated Tinware from Winterthur,” The Decorator (2013)
• With D. L. Fennimore, et al, Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842 (2007)

Select Exhibitions

• Striking Beauties: American Shelf Clocks and Timepieces, Winterthur Museum (2016)
• The Flowering of American Tinware, Winterthur Museum (2013)
• Pierced, Punched, Painted: Decorated Tinware from Winterthur, Brandywine River Museum (2012)
• Where They Went, Winterthur Collects What? Winterthur Museum (2010)
• Co-curator and co-author, Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher & Sidney Gardiner, 1808–1842 (2007)