Have worked in Academic, public & museum libraries providing reference -building collections & overseeing operations. Specialized areas are architecture, industrial, interior & graphic design. Oversee rare book and special collections. Lecture, write, and curate exhibitions dealing with design and decorative arts publications primarily from the 19th-21st centuries Publications, talks, and exhibitions -include trade catalogs, world's fairs, illustrative children books, pop-up and movable books, pattern books, and book design.
Public Biography
Have worked in Academic, public & museum libraries providing reference -building collections & overseeing operations. Specialized areas are architecture, industrial, interior & graphic design. Oversee rare book and special collections. Lecture, write, and curate exhibitions dealing with design and decorative arts publications primarily from the 19th-21st centuries Publications, talks, and exhibitions -include trade catalogs, world's fairs, illustrative children books, pop-up and movable books, pattern books, and book desig
Seckelson, Linda, Ash, Jared, Bardhan, Gail P., Guthrie, Emily, and Van Dyk, Stephen. 2015. "Trade Catalogs: Opportunities and Challenges." Art Documentation: Bulletin of the Art Libraries Society of North America 34 (2):267-300. https://doi.org/10.1086/6833852015
Van Dyk, Stephen. 2014. "Book: Astronomicum Caesareum." in Tools: Extending Our Reach, edited by McCarty, Cara and McQuaid, Matilda., 154-155. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
2014
Van Dyk, Stephen. 2008. "Kimbel & Cabus, American Gothic Revival Furniture." Nineteenth Century 28 (1):30-33.
2008
Van Dyk, Stephen. 2014. "Book: Les Raisons des forces mouvanters avec diverses machines tant utiles que plaisantes." in Tools: Extending Our Reach, edited by McCarty, Cara and McQuaid, Matilda., 191. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
2014
Van Dyk, Stephen. 2014. "Color lithograph print depicting De la Rue's Stationery Stand and Envelope Machine By Edwin Thomas Dolby from Recollections of the Great Exhibition." in Making design : Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection, edited by Boom, Irma., 698-699. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
2014
Van Dyk, Stephen. 2014. "Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers." in Tools : Extending our Reach, edited by McCarty, Cara and McQuaid, Matilda., 113-116. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
2014
Van Dyk, Stephen. 2014. "Paper Construction, Miniature theater depicting a garden scene with dancers attributed to engraver and print seller Martin Egelbrecht." in Making design : Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection, edited by Boom, Irma., 600-603. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum ; 2014.
2014
Van Dyk, Stephen. 2007. "Looking to the Future: Fairs from 1933." in Exit to Tomorrow: History of the Future, World's Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion 1933-2005, edited by Garn, Andrew, Kultermann, Udo, and Antonelli, Paolo., Rizzoli/Universe.
2007