April 1, 2019

PERSONAL

Name: Rebecca Parker Brienen

Office Phone: 405 744 6016

Email Address: [email protected]

Office Address: 108 Bartlett Center for the Arts, Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078

Current Academic Rank: Professor

Primary Department: Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History

Citizenship: USA

HIGHER EDUCATION

Institutional:

Ph. D. in Art History, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), December 2002.

M.A. in Art History, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), December 1995.

M.A. in Theological Studies, (Cambridge, MA), May 1993.

B.A. in Art History, Magna Cum Laude, Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA), May 1989.

Professional Development Seminars/Conferences:

Professional Fundraising for Deans and Academic Leaders, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, January 2015.

American Council on Education, Leadership Academy for Department Chairs, Chicago, IL, October 2013.

Third Annual Summer Teachers Institute in Technical Art History at , New Haven, CT, July 2013.

EXPERIENCE

Vennerberg Chair of Art and Professor of Art History, Department Head Director, Prairie Arts Center (an OSU-City of Stillwater partnership) Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History, Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK), 2017-

Vennerberg Chair of Art, Professor of Art History, Department Head. Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History, Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK), 2014-2017.

Vennerberg Professor of Art, Professor of Art History, Department Head. Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History, Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK), 2013-2014.

Associate Professor of Art History, Head of Art History. Department of Art and Art History, the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL), 2008-2013.

Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Art History, University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL), 2002-2008.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Albert Eckhout: Visões do Paraíso Selvagem: Obra Completa (revised and expanded second edition of Visions of Savage Paradise), in Portuguese and English. (Rio de Janeiro: Capivara Press, 2010), 437 pages.

Visions of Savage Paradise. , Court Painter in Colonial Dutch . (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006), 288 pages.

Information from Céara: from Georg Marcgraf (June – August 1639), (with Ernst van den Boogaart, first author), vol. 1 of . (Rio de Janeiro: Index Editora, 2002), 48 pages.

Edited books:

Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008), 256 pages. Co-edited with Dr. Margaret Jackson.

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Refereed journal articles:

“Joanna and her Sisters: Women in Print and Image, 1602-1796,” Early Modern Women: an Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring 2016): 65-94.

“The Embodiment of Race and Pleasure: Dirk Valkenburg’s Slave Dance (c. 1707),” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek/Dutch Yearbook for History of Art (2007-2008): 265- 287.

“From Brazil to : the Zoological Drawings of Albert Eckhout and Georg Marcgraf,” Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 6 (2007): 273-314.

“Albert Eckhout’s paintings of the wilde natien of Brazil and ,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek/Dutch Yearbook for History of Art (2002-2003): 107-137.

“Georg Marcgraf (1610- c. 1644), a German Cartographer, Astronomer, and Naturalist- Illustrator in Colonial Dutch Brazil,” in Itinerario: Journal of the History of the European Expansion XXV (2001/1): pp. 85-122.

Exhibition catalogs:

Visions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest in Colonial Mexico. (Coral Gables: Lowe Art Museum and the Jay I. Kislak Foundation, 2003), 101 pages. (Co-edited with Dr. Margaret Jackson.

Chapters in books (peer-reviewed):

“Nicolaes Witsen’s Collection, his Influence, and the Primacy of Visual Knowledge,” The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400-1700: Essays in Honor of Larry Silver, ed. Debra Cashion (Leiden, Brill Press, 2017), 222-238.

“Dutch Art and Artists from a Global Perspective: State of the Research,” Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth-Century, ed. Wayne Franits. (London and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2016), 406-422.

“Who Owns ? Collecting Frans Post’s Brazilian Landscapes,” in The Legacy of Dutch Brazil in the Atlantic World. (New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 229-247.

“Types and Stereotypes: Zwarte Piet and his Early Modern Sources,” in Dutch Racism, ed. Isabel Hoving and Philomena Essed. (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2014), 179-200.

“Albert Eckhout’s African Woman and Child (1641): Ethnographic Portraiture, Slavery, and the Subject,” Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World (1599-1899), eds. Angela Rosenthal and Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, (New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 229-255.

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“The Kislak Paintings and the Conquest of Mexico,” (first author, with contributions from M. Jackson) in Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico (University Press of Colorado, 2008), 187-205.

Essays in catalogs:

“The Unequal Lovers” in Building a Legacy: 60 Years of Collecting at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. (Coral Gables: Lowe Art Museum, 2012), 9-13.

“The Image of the Indian in Early Modern Europe and Colonial Mexico,” in Visions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest in Colonial Mexico. (Coral Gables: Lowe Art Museum, 2003), 29-36.

“Albert Eckhout’s Paintings and the Palace Vrijburg in Dutch Brazil,” in Albert Eckhout Returns to Brazil. (Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet, 2002), 81-91.

“Frans Post and Albert Eckhout: Two Dutch Artists in (1637-1644),” in Brazil: Body and Soul. (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2001), 62-74.

Conference Proceedings:

“The Evolving Mythology of Dutch Brazil: an Interpretation of the Works of Albert Eckhout and Frans Post (1637-2011),” in Brasil Holandês: história, memória e patrimônio compartilhado. (, Brazil: Institutio , 2012), 75-91.

“Dressing Up like the Cannibals? Adriaen Hanneman’s Portrait of Princess Mary Stuart in a Tupi Feather Cape,” in Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, and Convergence, ed. Jaynie Anderson and Vic Carlton. (Melbourne, Australia: Miegunyah Press and the University of Melbourne, 2009), 285-9.

“Nicolaes Witsen and His Circle: Globalization, Art Patronage, and Collecting in Amsterdam circa 1700,” in Contingent Lives: Social Identity and in the VOC World, ed. Nigel Worden. (Cape Town, South Africa: University of Cape Town Press, 2007), 439-449.

Exhibition Brochure:

Martha of Taos: Broomstick Skirts, Concho Belts, and the History of Southwestern Fashion (OSUMA, May 2016), co-authored with students in ART 4813/5813: Museum Exhibition. Essays on Martha Reed, Navajo jewelry, Taos as an artist colony, and Southwestern fashion.

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Book reviews:

León Krempel, editor, Frans Post (1612-1680). Maler des Verlorenen Paradieses, (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag 2006), 167 pages. Review by invitation, published in sehepunkte 10 (2010), Nr. 3 [15.03.2010], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de /2010/03/11213.html

Albert Eckhout: A Dutch Artist in Brazil; catalogue for the exhibition, “Discovering Brazil with Albert Eckhout (1610-1666),” March 27 – June 27, 2004 at the Mauritshuis. (159 pages). Review by invitation, published in the HNA newsletter, fall 2004.

Work in Progress:

Sun Patterns—Coming Storm, Catalogue raisonné and retrospective exhibition: Doel Reed (“Life and Nature: the Art of Doel Reed”). Exhibition date 2021. “Cornelis de Bruyn: Artist, Writer and `Worldy’ Traveler.” “Martha of Taos,” article under preparation. “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Soldier: Doel Reed’s WWI Diary,” article under preparation.

PROFESSIONAL

Funded Research: External: OVAC (Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition) grant to support Gardiner Gallery of Art, Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. Terra Foundation, in support of exhibition development for “Life and Nature, the Art of Doel Reed,” OSU Museum of Art, 2014. Library of Congress, Kluge Residential Fellowship, 2010. American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant, 2006. Historians of Netherlandish Art Fellowship, 2004. Kress Institutional Fellowship (Leiden University), 1999-2000. Friends of the Mauritshuis Fellowship, 1997-1998. Fulbright Fellowship for the , 1996-1997.

Internal: Fellowship, Center for the , University of Miami, 2013 (declined) University of Miami, Research Grant, Office of the Dean, College of Arts and , 2008-2012. Faculty Learning Community Fellow, University of Miami, 2009. Summer Institute Fellow, University of Miami, 2008. University of Miami, Max Orovitz Summer Award in the Arts and Humanities, 2007. University of Miami, Max Orovitz Summer Award in the Arts and Humanities, 2006. University of Miami, Max Orovitz Summer Award in the Arts and Humanities, 2004. University of Miami, Max Orovitz Summer Award in the Arts and Humanities, 2003.

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Other Awards and Fellowships: Heart of the Community Award, Payne County Youth Services, Stillwater, OK 2017. Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant (Publication Subvention), 2006.

Professional Organizations: College Art Association (CAA). Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA). Treasurer 2008-13 Midwest Art History Society (MAHS), Board of Directors (2016-); Secretary, 2017-.

Exhibitions:

“Mastering Modernism: The Students of Doel Reed, Ella Jack, and J.Jay McVicker. 1949-1965,” exhibition co-curated with Teresa Holder. Gardiner Gallery of Art, Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. July 28, 2018-August 30 2018.

“The Living Language of Clay,” exhibition co-curated with Ron du Bois. Gardiner Gallery of Art, Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. July 15, 2017-August 30 2017.

“Martha of Taos: Broomstick Skirts, Concho Belts and the History of Southwestern.” Exhibition curated with students in ART 4813/5813: Museum Exhibition. May 31, 2016 –September 2016, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK.

“Proud and Immortal: 125 years of Ghostly Encounters at OSU,” faculty and student curated exhibition, OSU Student Union October 21-November 10, 2015; also exhibited at Aspen Coffee, Stillwater, OK Dec 2015-July 2016.

“Martha Reed (1922-2010),” Willham House, Oklahoma State University. Co-curators Stacey Durham (BA, Art History, 2015) and Savannah Barrington (BA, Art History, 2016), with assistance from Parker Seward and Sally Schuh, October 2014-August 2015.

“Artist’s Books and the Columbian Moment: Negotiating the Legacy of 1492 and 1992,” web-based exhibition. Curated with upper-level University of Miami students enrolled in the art history seminar: “Art and Travel: the European Vision of the New World, Spring 2010. Website (designed by Sara Armas) finalized in 2011: http://scholar.library.miami.edu/1492books/about.html

“Trends and Techniques: a Short History of Printmaking,” Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, May 8 2009-April 25 2010. Curated with students from ARH 508 Museum Studies, Spring 2009.

“Visions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest in Colonial Mexico," Lowe Art Museum, The University of Miami, March-April 2003. Co-curator with M. Jackson et al.

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Symposia:

Co-organizer with Margaret Jackson et al, “Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Images of the Conquest of Mexico,” International Symposium, University of Miami, March 22-23, 2003.

Conference papers and panels:

Keynote speaker and workshop participant, “Art and the Dutch Empire: Dirk Valkenburg and his Worlds,” organized by the Research Center for Material Culture, the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 20 & 21, 2019.

"Beyond Feathers: Visualizing Brazil in Early Modern Europe," chair of panel, Europe And Latin America, Latin American Studies Association 2018 Congress, Barcelona, Spain, May 23 – 26, 2018.

“Baroque Art,” panel organizer and chair, Midwest Art History Society Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, April 5-7, 2018.

“Frans Post, Albert Eckhout, and Natural History Illustration, 1996-2016” Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Invited speaker as part of one-day symposium related to the exhibition: “Frans Post: Animals in Brazil.” November 22, 2016.

“Doel Reed’s WWI Diary,” Southwest Art History Conference, Taos, New Mexico, October 13, 2016.

“Artistic Training and Internationalism in The Hague, 1650-1725,” presented in the panel “17th and 18th century Art,” at the Midwest Art History Society Conference, March 27, 2015.

“Dutch Art from a Global Perspective,” presented in the panel “The Netherlands and the World,” Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Boston, MA, June 5-7, 2014.

“Cornelis de Bruyn: Artist, Traveler and Writer,” presented in the panel “Eighteenth Century Art,” at the Midwest Art History Society Conference, April 3-5, 2014.

“Seventeenth-Century Dutch Artists and Early Modern Globalism,” presented at the 24th Annual Oklahoma Conference of Art Historians, Oklahoma State University, March 1, 2014.

“The Pictorial Legacy of Dutch Brazil,” presented at the conference “Colonial Intersections: Reconsidering the Historical, the Literary, and the Visual Archives.” October 11-13, 2012, University of Maryland, College Park. Sponsored speaker.

Respondent (by invitation) for the two- part panel, “Representations of Africans and Asians in European Art, " Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Meeting, March 22-24, 2012, Washington D.C.

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“The evolving mythology of Dutch Brazil: the changing significance of the paintings of Albert Eckhout and (especially) Frans Post (1637-2011),” presented at the Colóquio Internacional sobre o Brasil Holandês: história, memória e patrimônio compartilhado,” Institutio Ricardo Brennand, Recife, Brazil, November 16-19, 2011. Sponsored speaker.

“Dutch Artists and the Price of Going `Global’ in the Early Eighteenth Century.” Presented in the panel “The Netherlands and Global Visual Culture, 1400-1700,” Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 25, 2011.

“Who Owns Frans Post’s Brazilian Landscapes?” Presented at the conference “The Impact and Legacy of Dutch Brazil,” Amsterdam, , January 20-21, 2011. Sponsored speaker.

“`Not curious but courtly in appearance:’” Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1726), Dutch artist and international traveler.” Presented in the panel “Porous Borders: Flanders, France, Italy, England, Germany and the Netherlands,” at the conference "Crossing Boundaries," Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Amsterdam, May 27th – 29th May 2010.

“Frans Post’s Brazilian Landscapes.” Presented in the panel “Representations of Brazil and Shifting Identities,” at CAA (College Art Conference), Chicago, February 10–13th, 2010.

“Eighteenth Century Dutch Art,” panel organized and co-chaired with Dawn Odell at the annual American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Richmond, VA, March 26-28, 2009.

“Dressing Up Like the Cannibals? Female Portraiture and Tupinamba Featherwork at Northern European Courts in the Seventeenth Century,” in the panel “Artistic and Cultural Exchange” at the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), Melbourne, Australia, January 13-18, 2008.

“Embattled Masculinity: The Lowe Art Museum’s Trapped Thief (ca 1650),” presented in the panel, “Constructions of Masculinity in Early Modern Netherlandish Art, 1500-1650,”at the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting, Miami, FL, March, 2007.

Sponsored speaker/participant at the “Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism and Anthropological Knowing Conference,” Duke University, March 29-31, 2007.

“Nicolaes Witsen and his Circle: Globalization, Collecting, and Art Patronage in Amsterdam circa 1700,” presented at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Meeting, “From Art to Icon,” Baltimore, MD, November 8-12, 2006.

“EthnoARThistory: 1500-1900,” panel organized and co-chaired with Dawn Odell (Virginia Tech) for the American Society for Ethnohistory’s Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, VA, November1-3, 2006.

“Ethnographic Images and the Pleasures of Possession: Dirk Valkenburg’s Slave Dance (ca 1706),” presented in the session “Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Anthropological Knowing,” in the 2005 annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Sante Fe, New Mexico, November 16-20, 2005. R. Brienen 8

“The Mulatta's Breast: Images of Women of African/European ancestry, 1602-1796," presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Las Vegas, Nevada, March 31-April 3, 2005.

“Albert Eckhout’s African Woman and Child: in Search of the Subject,” presented at the conference: “Invisible Subjects? Slave Portraiture in the Circum-Atlantic World (1660-1890),” Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, October 22 and October 23, 2004.

“Colonialism, Ethnography, and the Fetishization of African Skin, 1650-1750," presented in the session “Skin,” at the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies (ASECS), Boston, MA, March 26th, 2004.

“Dirk Valkenburg’s Slave Dance (ca. 1706) and Africans in the New World,” presented at “Trans- Atlantic Crossings,” the eighteenth annual Debartolo Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, February 21, 2004.

“Albert Eckhout’s Still Lifes and the Painting Cycle for the Palace Vrijburg,” sponsored speaker at the “International Experts Symposium on Albert Eckhout” Recife, Brazil, Sept. 13, 2002.

“Frans Post’s Brazilian Landscapes,” presented in the session “The Colonial or Global Imaginary in the Dutch Republic,” Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, March 2002.

Selected invited and public lectures:

“Art and Travel: The Life of a Professional Art Historian and Arts Administrator. Sponsored speaker, Wellesley College Art Club. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, April 10, 2017.

“Rembrandt and Religion,” Unitarian Universalist Church, Stillwater, OK, September 28, 2014.

“Cornelis de Bruyn and his contemporaries: internationalism and late seventeenth century Dutch art.” Library of Congress, Kluge Center, December 9, 2010.

“Albert Eckhout: A Dutch Artist in Brazil,” Rio de Janiero, Brazil, December 1, 2010. Sponsored speaker.

“Image of the Black in Western Art,” presented as part of the lecture series that accompanied the exhibition, “Africa/ A Harvest of Quiet Eyes,” New Gallery, The University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, January 27, 2005.

“Fantasy, Reason, and Other Trends in 18th-century European Art,” Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, April 8, 2004.

“Theatricality and Spirituality: Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa” Miamintelligence Lecture Series, April 2, 2004. R. Brienen 9

TEACHING

Art History Survey (1500-present); Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art; Northern Renaissance Art; Seventeenth-Century European Art; Eighteenth-Century European Art; Rembrandt; History of Prints and Printmaking; Museum Exhibition; Introduction to Museum and Curatorial Studies. Seminars on: Dutch Art; Image of the Indian and the Black in Western Art; Race and Representation; Theory and ; History of Prints and Printmaking; History of Museums and Collecting.

SERVICE

University Committee and Administrative Responsibilities:

Oklahoma State University Director, Prairie Arts Center (community art center), 2017- Head, Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History, Oklahoma State University, 2013- Oklahoma State University Museum of Art Academic Advisory Board, 2013- Doel Reed Center Committee, Oklahoma State University, 2013- Doel Reed Center Scholarship Committee, 2014- Professional Educational Council, Oklahoma State University, 2014- Art Advisory Board, Oklahoma State University, 2014- OSU Foundation - Staff & Faculty Campaign, 2016-

University of Miami Head of Art History, Department of Art and Art History, University of Miami, 2008-13. Art History Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor, University of Miami, 2008-13. Chair of Curriculum Committee, Dept of Art and Art History, University of Miami, 2009-13. College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, University of Miami, 2009-2013. University Curriculum Committee, University of Miami, 2013. Faculty Representative, Major Discipline Panel (Dean of Students Office), University of Miami, 2011- 2012.

Departmental Graduate Committees:

Oklahoma State University Katlyn Smith (MA in Art History, member of committee) Graduation date July 2018. Olivia Huffstetter (MA in Art History, member of committee) Graduation date May 2018. Sara Armas (MA in Art History, chair of committee). Graduation date July 2017. Sarah Pons (MA in Art History, member of committee) Graduation date December 2016. Michelle Rinard (MA in Art History, committee member). Graduation date May 2015. Amy Nies (MA in Art History, chair of committee). Graduation date July 2015.

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University of Miami Skylor Swan (MFA in Ceramics, 2013). Cristina Figueredo Zizold (MA in Art History, 2013). Kara Schneiderman (MA in Art History, 2014). Mary Alison Reilly (MA in Art History, 2012). Tiffany Saulter (MA in Art History, chair of committee, 2012). Courtney Johnson (MFA in Photography, committee member, 2009). Rickee Mahoney (MFA in Photography, committee member, 2009). Maria LaBarge (MA in Art History, chair of committee, 2008). Apryl Compare (MFA in Printmakingr, 2006). Gina Jong (MFA in Graphic Design, committee member, 2006). Karyn Anderson (MA in Art History, chair of committee, 2005).

Public Service: Director, Prairie Arts Center (formerly Stillwater Center for the Arts), 2017-Present Stillwater Arts and Humanities Council, 2017-2018; Vice President 2018-Present Volunteer, Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma, 2014-Present Career Day Volunteer, Stillwater Public Schools, 2018- Volunteer (guest lecturer), Miami-Dade Public Schools, 2008-2013 Miami-Dade Grand Jury (May-December 2012).

LANGUAGES

Dutch (read and spoken, fluent). German (advanced reading knowledge). French (advanced reading knowledge). Spanish (reading knowledge).

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