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HBA FINAL DRAFT Dec 7 HISTORIANS OF BRITISH ART FALL/WINTER 2013 Richard Earlom, 1743-1822, British; after Johan Zoffany, 1733-1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760), Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match at Lucknow (detail), 1786, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection a letter from the editor Dear HBA Members, Thank you to all of you who participated in our recent poll about the newsletter. In response to your feedback, the newsletter format will be evolving. In addition to reviews and HBA news, this issue includes a new section, the Member Profile. In coming issues we will introduce a section on British Art in American Collections. Each newsletter will also feature contents images from museums that have an open access policy, a trend we hope will continue. Our thanks to the Yale Center a letter from the President for British Art for the images seen in this issue. I would also like 2 to thank Amy Colombo, Ph.D. candidate in the Media, Art, & HBA @ CAA Text program at VCU, for her help designing the new layout. 3 Looking for calls for papers and fellowship information? In member profile 6 order to reach you in a timely manner, these items will now be distributed in e-blasts five times a year. Have an idea for a reviews 8 review, member profile, or short item on British art? Each of you is invited to contribute to the newsletter—please do not HBA publication grant hesitate to get in touch! I can be reached at: [email protected]. 11 Sincerely, membership & officers 13 Catherine Roach Assistant Professor, Department of Art History Virginia Commonwealth University 12 “CAA 2014 (Chicago, February 12-15) will offer many rich opportunities for HBA members.” Dear HBA Members, February 12-15) will offer many rich opportunities As the holiday season for HBA members. Ayla a letter from the begins, I find myself Lepine and Matthew reflecting on the things in Reeve are chairing our President life for which I am grateful. long session, “Queer At the top of the list this Gothic,” and Craig year are the privilege to Hanson is organizing a lead this organization and shorter session on “British the dedication of its hard- Country Houses: working officers and Architecture, Collections, board members. Thank and Gardens.” Once you for all you do! again, emerging scholars I especially appreciate will present papers at our Catherine Roach for business meeting, stepping up as Editor of moderated by Jongwoo our Newsletter. Informed Jeremy Kim. Finally, Peter by recent member survey Trippi has planned an feedback, you’ll begin to exceptional off-site tour of see in this issue design and two Chicago arts and content changes. I crafts gems: Second encourage you to Presbyterian Church and consider how you might the Glessner House contribute to future issues Museum, followed by an through reviews or short informal happy hour. More details on these events Colette Crossman features on museum acquisitions, research can be found on the discoveries, or other news following pages. I hope to Museum Educator for see you in Chicago! University Audiences, from the field. Blanton Museum of Art In other exciting news, Happy holidays, University of Texas CAA 2014 (Chicago, Colette 2 HBA:: FALL/WINTER 2013 1 HBA @ CAA Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812- 1852, British, Designs for Gothic Ornamentation, 1831, Pen and blue ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Queer Gothic CAA Panels Wednesday, February 12, 9:30 AM to noon Continental A, Lobby Level Chairs: Ayla Lepine, Yale University; and Matthew Reeve, Queen’s University British Country Houses: Architecture, Collections, and Gardens (see call for papers, next page) Thursday, February 13, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Williford A&B, Third Floor Chair: Craig Hanson, Calvin College Business Meeting/Young Scholars Session Thursday, February 13, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM Marquette Room, Third Floor Moderated by Colette Crossman, and then chaired by Jongwoo Jeremy Kim with the following speakers: Nathaniel M. Stein, Ph.D., Brown Univ., 2012, “Modern Banditti: Colonial Masculine Artistic Identity & Topographical Photography in India” (Sponsored by Dian Kriz) Caitlin Silberman, A.B.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, “‘Science is Measurement’: The Uneasy Evolutionism of Henry Stacy Marks” (Sponsored by Nancy Rose Marshall) Amy Tolbert, A.B.D., Univ. of Delaware, “Placing Trust: Collaborators, Competitors, and the Business of Print Publishing in the 1770s” (Sponsored by Kimberly Rhodes) 3 HBA:: FALL/WINTER 2013 HBA @ CAA R. Martin, active 1823-1840, A View of London Bridge, 1616, Reproduction lithograph, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Call for Papers British Country Houses: Architecture, Collections, and Gardens Chicago, Thursday, February 13, 2014, 12:30–2:00 Chair: Craig Hanson, Calvin College Proposals due by January 10, 2014 In a spirit of nimble experimentation, the Historians of British Art invite proposals for an informal lunchtime session in Chicago at the 2014 meeting of the College Art Association on the subject of "British Country Houses: Architecture, Collections, and Gardens." As a midday session, it is open to the public without the usual CAA membership or conference registration requirements. Speakers need belong only to HBA (or become a member soon!). Extended abstracts will be available digitally before the conference to encourage more productive discussion during the ninety-minute slot. Papers might address material aspects as well as larger contextual approaches that situate particular families and houses within narratives of patronage, the history of taste, or British identity. Please email a 200-word proposal and a CV to [email protected] by January 10, 2014. In light of the unusually quick turn-around, early responses are encouraged. Questions are most welcome. 4 HBA:: FALL/WINTER 2013 2 HBA members are invited to The guide and lecturer for participate in a truly unique this experience will be HBA @ CAA off-site visit during the 2014 William Tyre, who is Executive CAA conference in Chicago, Director and Curator of the on Friday afternoon, February Glessner House Museum, 14, 3.00-5.00 pm. Both of the and also a member of the National Historic Landmarks to Second Presbyterian Friends be visited are located within board. We will all visit the two miles of the conference church together for 50 hotel (the Hilton) and are minutes, then walk five easily reachable from the minutes to the Glessner hotel by public bus (just one House, where we will explore line and one cash fare) or by the house. Participants are taxi. The total cost of the visits then invited to informal, à la is $14 per person, payable on carte drinks and snacks at the day. If you would rather the beloved restaurant not travel to our starting point Kroll’s. independently, we will be If you would like to leading a group from the participate in this outing, Hilton lobby directly to our first please email [email protected] stop, if you are able and anytime before January 15, willing to meet us in the Hilton 2014, to confirm. Roughly lobby at 2.30 pm sharp. three weeks before the visit, The first stop will be the we will email you with a Second Presbyterian reminder and update on all Church. The sanctuary of logistical matters. this church, rebuilt by the architect Howard Van Doren Shaw after a devastating fire in 1900, is considered to be nationally significant as one of the earliest, most complete, and most intact expressions of ecclesiastical Anglo- American Arts and Crafts. The second stop will be the Glessner House Museum. Completed in 1887, this Off-Site Visit: Tour of granite-clad home is Edward Burne-Jones, 1833-1898, British, Second Presbyterian considered the urban Preparatory Design for a Stained Glass residential masterpiece of Window, Virgil and Horace, undated, Church and Glessner Graphite and watercolor on the great 19th-century moderately textured, cream wove House Museum paper, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of American architect, Henry Alan F. Hockstader Hobson Richardson. 5 HBA:: FALL/WINTER 2013 123 MEMBER PROFILE: Where did you do your What projects are you graduate work, and on what currently working on? Roberto C. Ferrari topic? Two essays from my I earned my M.A. in dissertation on Gibson will Humanities from the be published in book What drew you to the field of British art? University of South Florida, collections over the next where I wrote my thesis on few years. I recently gave I’ve always been an the fatal woman motif in a presentation at the Pre- Anglophile. Although my paintings by Rossetti and Raphaelite conference in father is Italian, my poetry by Swinburne. I Oxford on Solomon’s 1860 mother’s side of the family also earned my M.A. in painting The Mother of is of English descent and I Library and Information Moses, discussing issues of credit Nana (my maternal Science from USF. After race and religion. I am grandmother) as the many years as a librarian, I turning that into an article, source of my interest in all went back to school and with a related spin-off things British. Her parents earned an M.Phil. degree article focusing just on his were Victorian immigrants and my Ph.D. in Art History mixed-race model Fanny from Lancashire and, from the Graduate Eaton. My colleague despite only an eighth- Center, City University of Carolyn Conroy (University grade education, New York, graduating in of York) and I continue to surprisingly well read. We May 2013. My dissertation update the Simeon would partake of tea and was on the Anglo-Roman Solomon Research biscuits while she told me sculptor John Gibson, best Archive (http://www.
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