Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen graduated from Princeton University and earned an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. She started her career at the Metropolitan Museum as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. Since then, Frelinghuysen has curated, published, and lectured widely on the subject of American ceramics, glass, stained glass, and late 19th-century furniture, as well as all aspects of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany. In 2016, she was invited to be the Clarice Smith Distinguished Scholar Lecture for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., and in 2014, she was awarded the Frederic E. Church Award for contributions to American Culture. Most recently, Frelinghuysen was the lead curator of the exhibition, Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age, which includes the installation of the Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room in The American Wing, and an exhibition on the furniture of George A. Schastey. She is also currently working on a book on the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of American Art Pottery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a member of a number of professional advisory committees and serves on the boards of trustees of the American Ceramic Circle, Kent School, and the Shelburne Museum.