Lori Verderame (best known as Dr. Lori) is a TV personality, author, art, collectibles, and antiques appraiser with a Ph.D. in art history and resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Lori is the antiquities expert on the American TV show, The Curse of Oak Island which airs internationally on the History Channel. She is also the star appraiser on the American TV show Auction Kings which airs internationally on Discovery channel. On Discovery's Auction Kings, she appraised Thomas Jefferson's writing desk, Elizabeth Taylor's photographs from the film Cleopatra, a costume from Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby, and other antiques. She also appears as the Ph.D. Antiques Appraiser on FOX Business Network's TV show, Strange Inheritance where she discovered, authenticated, and appraised George Washington's wallet.
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Television
Dr. Lori Verderame has been featured on The Tonight Show and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She has appeared on Anderson Live with Anderson Cooper, Daytime, The Balancing Act on Lifetime Television, Inside Edition, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX. She presented the 'Trash or Treasure?' segment on CBS3 KYW TV in Philadelphia, PA. Since 2011, Verderame has been the art and antiques appraiser on Discovery's TV show Auction Kings. In the season 4 premiere of Auction Kings, Verderame authenticated eleven objects selected by the Gallery 63 cast for the Pick-Off episode. In season 4, Verderame appraised a writing desk owned by President Thomas Jefferson, a Moroccan saddle commissioned by the King of Morocco, Leroy Neiman prints of Joe Namath and Michael Jordan, a fire suit from the NASCAR movie Talladega Nights The Legend of Ricky Bobby. In season 3 of Auction Kings, Verderame shared appraised katara knives, Elizabeth Taylor movie memorabilia from the 1963 film Cleopatra, celebrity autographs, and Victorian chastity belts. In the season 4 finale episode of History channel's The Curse of Oak Island, Dr. Lori Verderame reviewed and provided historical perspective on treasure spoils discovered on Oak Island including a gold cross, gold plated button, and Spanish galleon spike among other items.
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Education
A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Verderame graduated from Hamden High School in Hamden, CT. She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. She has a Master of Arts degree in Liberal Studies with an emphasis in History and Art History from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. She holds the Doctorate (Ph.D.) in the History of Art and Architecture from the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA where she also taught art and architectural history on the campus.
Experience
Verderame has held director and curator positions in American museums including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Allentown Art Museum, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, and the Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College. She has lectured at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg Russia, the MFA in Boston, MA, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence Italy, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Vatican museums including the Sistine Chapel, and the Musee de Louvre in Paris France and various historic sites around the world such as Knossos, Hagia Sophia, Colosseum, Parthenon, Pantheon, Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, Coonley house, other Wright homes and Taliesin West, Westminster Abbey, among others. She has guided tours at Epheseus, Turkey; Olympia, Greece; Rome, Italy; among others. Dr. Lori has also taught art history at Penn State University at University Park, PA, the State University of New York (SUNY) in Cortland, NY, Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT, Southern Connecticut State University in Hamden, CT, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, Beaver College (Arcadia University) in Glenside, PA, Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, PA and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
As a professional fine art, antiques, and collectibles appraiser, Dr. Lori Verderame has appraised 20,000 objects per year since 1998 at more than 150 events held each year. Some of the more interesting objects that Dr. Lori has reviewed, evaluated, research, authenticated, and appraised are: Tiffany dragonfly lamp, Napoleon's good luck talisman, wedding lace worn by Empress Carlota of Mexico, Astronaut Fred Haise's moon boot mold from NASA's Apollo 13 lunar mission, Honus Wagner baseball card, Honus Wagner signed baseball, Babe Ruth signed baseball, one of Pierre Auguste Renoir's final portraits, Eugene Boudin painting and watercolor, Edgar Degas work on paper, photographs of the victims of Jack the Ripper, Ansel Adams Yosemite gelatin silver prints, George Biddle paintings, Harry James' personal trumpet, Seymour Lipton sculpture, Alexander Calder sculpture, George Washington mourning picture, Civil War prosthetic leg, Abraham Lincoln's 1864 campaign button, numerous first edition novels, the White House cookbook, Benjamin Franklin's autograph, William Penn's land deed, the original "A" dictionary page by Noah Webster, World War II photographs of the dropping of the Atomic bomb taken from aboard the Enola Gay, Nazi military objects belonging to Adolf Hitler, etc.
Columnist
Verderame's column entitled "Art & Antiques by Dr. Lori" appears in newspapers and magazines around the world. Dr. Lori also writes a column called "Value This with Dr. Lori" and presents information about art and antiques on the "Value This with Dr. Lori" program. Her Lifetime television blogs are entitled "Antiques and Your Home" and "Travel, Shop, Eat by Dr. Lori".
Since 1998, Verderame has presented "Dr. Lori's Antiques Appraisal Comedy Show" to audiences around the world and on cruise ships. The popular live appraisal comedy stage show is presented live and audience members bring their objects for appraisal as part of the unscripted live comedy appraisal stage show. Dr. Lori Verderame appraises each object while injecting humor and information about each antique. She presents 150 events annually in the United States. Dr. Lori Verderame estimates that she appraises 20,000 objects each year. Dr. Lori offers appraisal services through her website at www.drloriv.com.
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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