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Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

About Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Brandy Culp is the Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Covered sugar bowl, c. 1745, silver, 11.5 x 9.1 cm (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art) — Global trade in a cup of tea: Colonial America, sugar and slavery.

The triangle trade

by Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Elisha King Root for Samuel Colt, Experimental Pocket Pistol, Serial number 5, caliber .265 inches, barrel length 3 inches, overall length 7 inches, brass, steel, and iron, 1849-50 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Bequest of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt) — The gun that "won the West" also transformed American manufacturing and marketing.

Colt’s Experimental Pocket Pistol

by Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Covered sugar bowl, c. 1745, silver, 11.5 x 9.1 cm (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art) — Global trade in a cup of tea: Colonial America, sugar and slavery.

The triangle trade and the colonial table, ...

by Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Elisha King Root for Samuel Colt, Experimental Pocket Pistol, Serial number 5, caliber .265 inches, barrel length 3 inches, overall length 7 inches, brass, steel, and iron, 1849-50 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Bequest of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt) — The gun that "won the West" also transformed American manufacturing and marketing.

Inventing America, Colt’s Experimental Pocket Pistol

by Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Court Cupboard, 1665-73, red oak with cedar and maple (moldings), northern white cedar and white pine, 142.6 x 129.5 x 55.3 cm (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art) — Thought the Puritans were dour? Think again!

Puritan court cupboard

by Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris

We think of Puritans aesthetics as restrained and humble, but this elaborate cupboard proves otherwise.

Thought the Puritans were dour?

by Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris