ABOUT ONA

Ona Curran  is a graduate of Hofstra University and holds an M.A. in History Museum Procedures from the State University of New York (Cooperstown Graduate Program). She is a former museum curator and historical society director. She has been appraising art and antiques for twenty years and is a certified member of the Appraisers Association of America..

Ona is a museum consultant, lectures on antiques and the arts and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Schenectady County Historical Society. She has written  articles for The Magazine Antiques and is an art historian. She also serves as an consultant to collectors and to all who need advice as to the acquisition of  property or disposition of  family possessions. She neither buys or sells.

Ona is the author of  “Faces of Schenectady 1715-1750”  which  includes portraits of  early residents of Schenectady painted by Nehemiah Partridge, John Heaton and Pieter Vanderlyn. Ona Curran is also the author of Thomas McIlworth/Colonial New York Portrait Painter who worked in the period 1757 - 1767 and painted the notables of that period including the Van Rennselaers, Van Cortlands, Stuyvesants, General John Bradstreet and Sir William Johnson.