With John A. Hays, private art adviser and former Deputy Chairman of Christie’s Americas.

John A. Hays will take attendees on a remarkable journey of discoveries made in the field of 18th-century Rhode Island furniture, near and far from his favorite Colonial port city, Newport. Through objects, he will reveal how connoisseurship, persistence and good fortune changed and continue to change our thinking about the greatest furniture made in the world. A reception will take place after the lecture.