Acoris Andipa

Acoris Andipa is the Director of The Andipa Gallery, a London-based gallery owned and operated by the Andipa family, who have been dealers in fine art since 1593. The Maria Andipa and Son Icon Gallery specializes in Byzantine Icons dating from the 14th through 19th century. In addition, the Andipas have a long history in selling the works of Old Masters, as well as an established Contemporary Department representing 20th Century artists such as Chagall, Lichtenstein, Matisse, Picasso and Warhol. The Andipa Gallery is known worldwide for its dynamic exhibition program. To visit the Andipa Gallery online, go to www.andipamodern.com.

Swannee Bennett

Native Arkansan Swannee Bennett is the Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Historic Arkansas Museum. In addition to his duties at the state museum, Mr. Bennett also serves as the Director of the Arkansas Artists and Artisans project, a statewide survey of the state's artists and craftsmen who produced our state's first decorative and fine arts. A former member of the curatorial staff at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, in Virginia, he presently serves on the advisory board of the Historic Lexington Foundation in Lexington, Virginia. To visit the Historic Arkansas Museum online, go to www.arkansashistory.com.

Swannee Bennett is the author of Arkansas Made: A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical and Fine Art Produced in Arkansas, 1819-1870. (2 vol.) © 1990-1991.

John Coker

John Coker is President of John Coker, Ltd., a Knoxville, Tennessee-based firm conducting estate sales and auctions of fine and decorative art throughout Tennessee. Mr. Coker is a widely recognized scholar, collector and dealer in fine American antiques, especially Southern furniture and folk art. John may be seen regularly on Home and Garden Network's hit seres, Treasures in the Attic. To visit John Coker, Ltd. online go to www.antiquesonline.com.

John Coker is the co-author of The Unofficial Guide to Collecting Antiques © 2000.

Wendell D. Garrett

Wendell Garrett is the Senior Vice President of Americana at Sotheby's-New York, and serves as editor-at-large for The Magazine Antiques. He holds a bachelor's degree in American history from the University of California at Los Angeles and a master's in the Winterthur Program in early American culture from the University of Delaware. He pursued further graduate work in American history at Harvard University until he joined the staff of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1959. There he acted as the assistant editor of The Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, (4 vols.) and associate editor of the first two volumes of Adams family correspondence. In 1965 he discovered the earliest diary of John Adams at the Vermont Historical Society and edited it for publication by Harvard University Press. He has made several appearances on the hit PBS series, Antiques Roadshow. To visit Sotheby's, go to www.sothebys.com.

Wendell Garrett is author of Apthorp House; 1790-1960, Thomas Jefferson Redivivus, The Federal Style & Beyond (1992), Victorian America: Classical Romanticism to Gilded Opulence (1993), Colonial America (1995) and Monticello and the Legacy of Thomas Jefferson (1995). In October 1994, he received the Henry Francis du Pont Award for distinguished contribution to the American Arts.

Susan Johnson-Mumford

Susan Johnson-Mumford is the Director and founder of Mumford Fine Art, an international London-based brokerage firm representing contemporary and 20th century artists from around the globe. The range of artwork incorporates a diverse array of media, including sculpture, painting (in oil, acrylic and mixed media), printmaking (including etchings, monoprints, and screenprints), drawing (pencil and charcoal) and photographic processes. In addition to numerous contemporary artists, Mumford Fine Art also offers works by the late and well-renowned twentieth century British sculptor and printmaker, Dame Elisabeth Frink. Mumford Fine Art is committed to the promotion of European artists in North America, and of American artists in Europe, in hopes of encouraging international interest among British and American collectors. To visit Mumford Fine Art online, go to www.mumfordfineart.net.

Sumpter Priddy, III

Sumpter Priddy III is the Director of Sumpter Priddy III, Inc., an Alexandria, Virginia based company that has gained international recognition for their exceptional inventory and ground breaking scholarship in American decorative arts. Sumpter Priddy, III holds a Bachelors Degree in the History of Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Masters from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. He served six years as curator for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and tutored for the Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program. Long intrigued by the relationship between architecture, history and the decorative arts, he is one of the most active researchers in the field. His rediscovery of numerous artisans whose work shaped taste in early America has contributed significantly to a larger understanding of the complexity of regional style. Recent research includes the careers and the products of craftsmen who came from around the globe to Washington, D.C. during the Federal period. He lectures frequently throughout the United States, and has contributed articles to The Magazine Antiques, the Chipstone Foundation's American Furniture, and has served as consultant to numerous publications. To visit Sumpter Priddy, III Inc. online go to www.sumpterpriddy.com

Sumpter Priddy, III is the author of American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts (1790-1840) © 2004.

Kerry Shrives

Since joining Boston-based Skinner, Inc. in 1989, Kerry Shrives has played an increasingly important role in the company. Currently the Director of Skinner's Discovery and Judaica departments, she is also an auctioneer and senior appraiser, conducting numerous benefit appraisal days, lectures, and benefit auctions throughout the year. As director of Discovery, Kerry oversees monthly auctions, which offer a wide selection of estate furnishings and decorative arts from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Kerry was instrumental in developing Skinner's Judaica department, in turn making Skinner one of the few auction houses in the world to offer this area of expertise. Shrive is a specialist in English, Continental and Victorian furniture and decorative arts as well as fine Judaica. Since 1996, she has been a regular face on the highly popular PBS TV series, Antiques Roadshow. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the Furniture History Society, Victorian Society (UK and USA) and the Decorative Arts Society. To visit Skinner, Inc. online go to www.skinnerinc.com.

Nicola J. Tayler

Nicola Tayler is an early European Art Scholar, who specializes in Greek and Roman pottery, glass, and metalwares, as well as the enamels, ivories and textiles of Byzantium. Additionally, Tayler has an impressive knowledge of illuminated manuscripts, sculpture and the fine arts of the Renaissance. Nicola J. Tayler holds a Master's degree in Art History and is a Graduate Connoisseur of Christie's in London, with an emphasis on Early European Art. Once an officer at the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle, England, Ms Tayler is now the curator at the Gairloch Heritage Museum in Scotland. To visit the Gairloch Heritage Museum online, go to www.gairlochheritagemuseum.org.uk.

J. CARMAN, inc. would like to extend sincere thanks to the aforementioned consultants for their willingness to share their experience and expertise. It is indeed an honor and privilege to have the opportunity to work with such distinguished individuals.

Many thanks!