Georgian drawing room

England

c. 1740

Pine

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A Georgian drawing room with pale green walls, a wooden floor, and a fireplace. Several portraits hang on the walls, and a large gilded chandelier is suspended from the ceiling. In 1932, this room was installed in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as a memorial to Eugene J. Carpenter, the first vice president of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. It was once called the Northumberland Room because the paneling was purported to come from Stanwick Park, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Northumberland in Yorkshire, England. Now it is called the Georgian Room, as it relates to interior architecture from 18th-century Georgian England.While at first the room was exhibited with unpainted pine paneling, it was later painted, reflecting a more typical 18th-century wall treatment. The room is decorated with class