"William Rush's Eagle for St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Philadelphia"

Marijn Manuels received his training in Amsterdam and joined Objects Conservation in 1996. For many years he has been responsible for the care, examination, and treatment of The American Wing’s collection of interiors, furniture, and wooden objects. Past projects include exhibitions such as Honoré Lannuier (1998), Art and the Empire City (2000), John Townsend (2005), Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall (2006), and Duncan Phyfe (2011), as well as the 10-year reinstallation of The American Wing’s galleries and period rooms, completed in 2011. More recently, Marijn guided the installation of the Worsham-Rockefeller dressing room, and worked extensively on the exhibition Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age (2015), which introduced Schastey’s work to a broader audience.

Thayer Tolles joined the American Wing staff in 1992. A sculpture specialist, she served as editor and co-author of a two-volume catalogue of the Museum’s historic American sculpture collection (1999, 2001); participated in the department’s renovation and reinstallation between 2001 and 2012; and organized numerous exhibitions with accompanying catalogues, including Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009) and The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925 (2013). A graduate of Williams College, she received her MA from the University of Delaware and her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.