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the newsletter of the department of art history at the university of delaware Spring 2013

Looking Forward Remembering William Innes Homer

1 Spring 2013 From the Chair Editor: Camara Dia Holloway Dear friends of the Department of Art History at Editorial Assistant: Amy Torbert the University of Delaware, As you will see from this issue of Insight, it has been Art Director and Project Manager: a busy and eventful year for the faculty and students Christina Jones and former students in the Department. I am writing to you from my temporary position as interim Chair Lawrence Nees. for the next three terms, which I began to occupy in January Photo by George Freeman. Department of Art History Staff: 2013. In the fall of last year our distinguished Professor Nina Linda J. Magner, Starline Griffin Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, who had been serving as Chair for several years, announced that she wished to step down from Photographer: George Freeman that position and, after the sabbatical now beginning, will retire from full-time teaching. Professor Kallmyer has taught at Delaware since 1982 and has brought much distinction to the faculty and immense learning and energy to our students at all levels. She is the Insight is produced by the Department author of four important books, French Images from the Greek War of Independence of Art History as a service to alumni and (1989), Eugène Delacroix: Prints, Politics and Satire (1991), Cézanne and Provence (2003) friends of the Department. We are always and Théodore Géricault (2010), and countless articles, the recipient of many awards, pleased to receive your opinions and including the College Art Association’s (CAA) Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, and her many The officers of the Art History ideas. Please contact Linda J. Magner, prestigious grants include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Getty, the Club strike philosophical Old College 318, University poses, à la Raphael’s School American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Philosophical Society, the of Athens, under the Old of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA), and the Institute for Advanced College Portico. Pictured from (302-831-8416) or [email protected]. Study at Princeton, to name only some. She has served as adviser for many theses and from left: Mollie Armstrong, dissertations during her three decades of distinguished service, and although we will Anna Kamensky, Bryan Walker, On the cover: miss her presence we expect that her scholarship will not only continue but perhaps even Vincent Ryan, Julianna Broz, increase when she has more time to devote to it. and Kristin Wittman. William Innes Homer. Photo courtesy of Contents UDaily online newspaper. There are too many highlights among the many and varied accomplishments of our students and faculty to mention here, and you may read about them elsewhere in this issue of Insight, ably edited by Professor Camara Holloway, to whom we are all grateful for her efforts. I would like to call attention to two features that are, if not altogether new, at least newly energized and activated. First is the Friends of Art History, led by Carol Nigro From the Chair | 3 Around the Alumni Corner | 16 and Thorpe Moeckel, who organized several special events during the past fall that were Department | 10 Convocation Address remarkably well-attended. More events are planned for the spring and indeed already in New Life for the Old Slide the works for next year. Please consider not only attending such events, but also becoming Remembering RISING STAR: Nenette William Innes Homer | 4 Library actively involved in the organization. Luarca-Shoaf Second is the “Grad Depot.” Graduate students in the Department have long been Department Lecture Series sharing grant proposals and exam bibliographies with one another, as many of you may Curatorial Track Initiative RISING STAR: Melody Art History Club Report Barnett Deusner remember, some even from the vaguely recalled B.D.E. period, before the digital era. Last Bears Many Fruits | 5 fall Professor Sandy Isenstadt formalized this activity by exploiting Sakai, the University’s Undergraduate Student Awards Friends of Art History Report Partnerships Strengthened learning management system to establish the “Grad Depot,” an online repository for such On Campus and Beyond Alumni Notes materials that makes them more easily available. This new initiative supports the culture of camaraderie that prevails among our grads, as has long been the case, and helps that First Curatorial Internship Graduate Student Thanks to culture to continue and to thrive. Colloquium Held News | 13 Enjoy Insight, and please let us hear from you! Our Donors | 24 First Mellon Fellowship HIGHLIGHT: Isabelle Havet Awarded Best wishes, HIGHLIGHT: Craig Lee Lawrence Nees Faculty News | 8 HIGHLIGHT: Emily Casey Interim Chair SPOTLIGHT: Christopher Degrees and Awards Bennett Graduate Student Notes Faculty Notes

2 3 Remembering Curatorial Track Initiative William Innes Homer (1929–2012) Bears Many Fruits By Joyce Hill Stoner (PhD 1995) and Roberta K. Tarbell (PhD 1976, MA 1968)1

With a name like “William Innes Homer” He favored Partnerships Strengthened and a birthplace near the Barnes monographic studies Foundation, how could he not end up a and published books nationally recognized art history scholar, on , On Campus and Beyond teacher, and connoisseur? Bill Homer Robert Henri, Stieglitz, (1929–2012) became the first Chair of Gertrude Käsebier, the new Art History Department at the Albert Pinkham Ryder Increased Emphasis on University of Delaware in 1966 and (co-authored with Lloyd Technical Art History retired thirty-four years later at the age of Goodrich), and Thomas Brian Baade, Painting Conservator, and seventy. For fifty years he championed late Eakins. Bill felt a special Researcher of Historic Painting Materi- nineteenth- and early twentieth-century kinship to Eakins als and Techniques, is offering the First American painters and photographers, because both were Mellon Curatorial Seminar this spring. organized exhibitions of their works, and Philadelphians who Baade worked as a practicing painter and wrote scholarly analyses of their art and were fascinated with illustrator with a BFA from the School of aesthetics. He supervised more than the interrelationship the Art Institute of before shift- forty UD dissertations and his influence of science – especially ing to painting conservation. He is a 2006 extended to hundreds of students, many of photography – and art. graduate of the Winterthur/University of whom in turn became career Americanists He took his students William Homer in 2008. Photo by Elizabeth Hyer Rose. Delaware Program in Art Conservation in universities and museums. Homer to the exact locations (WUDPAC). He specializes in the iden- earned his BA in art history at Princeton in Philadelphia where tification and analysis of historic painting in 1951 and his MA (1954) and PhD Eakins had placed his easel – on the banks often would be heard in our voicemails. materials and techniques. Baade is a private (1961) at Harvard. He had begun his of the for the sculling The board members of the Wyeth conservator and an Instructor for the Art undergraduate studies as a painter, giving pictures, the surgical theater at Jefferson Foundation for American Art were pleased Conservation Department. He will share him a unique appreciation of the physical Medical College for The Gross Clinic to help support his last book, The Paris his research and expertise reconstructing presence of works of art. When he later (1875), and 1729 Mount Vernon Street, Letters of Thomas Eakins (2009), with one historical paintings in a graduate seminar served on the Admissions Committee where the artist lived and worked from of our publication grants awarded through for the Department. The course “Decoding for the Winterthur/UD Art Conservation 1899 to 1916. Such exactitude and concrete the College Art Association. However, the the Old Masters” will explore materials and UD Alumni, Faculty, and Graduate Students at Scholars’ Day at PAFA. From left: Wendy Bellion, Amy Torbert, Joyce Hill Program, he drew little portrait sketches references were much appreciated by final volume of Eakins’s letters remains techniques used by Western easel painters Stoner, Camara Holloway, Anna Marley, La Tanya Autry, Brian Baade, Amber Kerr-Allison, Tiarna Doherty, Laura Hartman. of each of the applicants. He spent time in the Art Conservation students who took among several of his unfinished projects. from late Middle Ages through early 20th Photo by Barbara Katus, Digital Assets Manager, PAFA. the darkroom of the Princeton camera club his classes or asked him to serve on their The exhibition Gertrude Käsebier: The century. Traditionally art historians receive and developed a keen appreciation for the doctoral committees. Complexity of Light and Shade, on view little knowledge of technical art history of developing an exhibition on the art of religious paintings produced in France. Like chemistry and aesthetics of photography, He challenged the students in his until June 28, 2013 in the University and conservation, so most curators have (1859–1937). Tanner many of his teachers, who included Thomas which informed many publications about Postmodernist class in the mid-nineties to Museums, University of Delaware, Old relatively little background in how to ex- was one of the first to Eakins, and fellow students, Tanner went and other pioneers of think about how wrong twentieth-century College Gallery, has been dedicated to amine and understand the material aspects enroll at PAFA where he was a student from abroad to study after completing his training modern photography. scholars were likely to be about what painter Homer, who was responsible for bringing of artworks. Seminars like this will better 1879 to 1885. Most Americans aware of at PAFA and attend the Académie Julian in Bill Homer was a prolific writer. He would be valued most highly a century the works and supporting archives there. prepare our Curatorial Track PhD students Tanner knew him for an early genre painting Paris. Tanner took up permanent residence wrote in a guarded style and avoided hence. Probably as a joke, he noted that As Bill Homer’s students, we remember for museum careers as well as deepen un- (1893, Hampton Universi- in France during the 1890s where he lived exaggerating the importance of his perhaps it would be Andrew Wyeth! The him as a role model for scholarship and derstanding about the nature of objects for ty Art Museum) that portrays an elderly Afri- dividing his time between Paris and Trépied, subjects. Like a lawyer, he built well- class moaned, but this set a little fire under especially as a meticulous editor – no all of our students. can American man teaching a boy to play the a town in the Pas-de-Calais region on the documented arguments that proved the one older student (JHS) who went on to sentences in our dissertations were left instrument. This work holds an iconic status Northeast coast, until his death in 1937. significance of his topics of investigation. work directly with Wyeth for a dozen years, unchallenged. As one colleague said, “you in the African American community. Tanner With the exception of The Banjo Lesson and and Wyeth also painted her portrait. may not agree, but it will be better.” We will Discovering Tanner only painted one other African American one other work, Tanner’s submissions to the 1 Parts of this essay were published by Tarbell in “Appreciation: William Innes Homer (1929–2012),” Although during his last years Bill think of him as we wield our own red pencils When Anna Marley (PhD 2009) was ap- genre scene titled The Thankful Poor (1894, annual Salon were of biblical subjects. In American Art 27, no. 1 (Spring 2013). See also Ber- endured serious medical conditions, (or “track changes”) into the future when line pointed as the Curator of Historical Ameri- Collection of Camille and William Cosby) this arena, he found success and interna- nard L. Herman “Pioneering Vision: An Interview he continued to write and stay in editing is needed for content, consistency, can Art at the Academy of the however during a career spanning almost tional renown that was unprecedented for an with William I. Homer,” Insight (Spring 2009): 4–6. communication with colleagues; his voice clarity, cogency, and correct grammar. Fine Arts (PAFA), she was assigned the task five decades. He earned his reputation for African American artist. 4 5 Curatorial Track (cont.) First Curatorial Internship Colloquium Held The exhibition Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit and the accompanying Anna Juliar delivered an account about projects. I researched and wrote materi- catalogue revealed crucial new informa- her internships in the first Curatorial als for the exhibition Networking Before tion essential to understanding his career Track PhD Internship Colloquium. The the Net, scheduled for January 2014, and and artistic practice. A technical study Colloquium is a capstone to the intern- wrote several entries for the Rosenblog of six paintings from the collection of ship component of the Curatorial Track corresponding to the exhibition’s objects. I the Smithsonian American Art Museum curriculum. Here she shares some of her researched the provenance of some paint- (SAAM) was conducted by Brian Baade experiences and reflections: ings in the collection, consulting books, and Amber Kerr-Allison, another alumna of old auction catalogues, sale records, and UD’s Art Conservation Program, who works This past year I interned at two area correspondences. I also participated in the at SAAM, along with Jennifer Giaccai of the Colloquium speakers, from left: Katrina Greene, Rachel Zimmerman, Jeff Richmond-Moll, Camara Holloway, Brian Baade, museums as part of the recently initiated museum’s ongoing project to catalogue a Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation In- Anna Marley. Photo by George Freeman. Curatorial Track PhD program in the art vast number of book illustration materials stitute. Their findings were featured in the history department. Thanks to a gener- currently housed there. I went on several exhibition, and Baade and Kerr-Allison co- ous grant from the Provost’s Office, I was intern field trips, including a tour of the authored an essay for the catalogue. During Lazarus (1896, Musee d’Orsay) that was Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the able to pursue both internships during the Magic Gardens (around the corner from my a Scholars’ Day held at PAFA, where UD purchased by the French Government soon Baltimore Art Museum, SAAM, the Cleve- spring and summer semesters. On alternate house) and the Conservation Center for Art alumni, faculty and graduate students were after its debut and had never before been land Museum of Art, and the Memorial Art days, I worked as a curatorial intern at the & Historic Artifacts. well represented, Baade and Kerr-Allison exhibited in the United States. Gallery of Rochester. Delaware Art Museum (DAM) in Wilm- Anna Juliar. Photo by George Freeman. Both internships provided a wealth of led a discussion about the highly experi- The Scholars’ Day and the seminar The first show, curated by Kathleen Foster ington, and as a collections intern at the practical experience, as well as the oppor- mental paint formulas and techniques that prompted Professor Holloway to organize at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offered Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadel- through over 100 exhibition files and about tunity to work as an integrated member Tanner developed resulting in his distinc- a colloquium at UD that was held in May. a contextualization and reinterpretation of phia, never once showing up to one of the 15 scrapbooks from 1912–2000, I compiled of both museums’ staff. The differences tive rendering of light and nocturnal scenes. Two of the seminar students, Katrina the museum’s well-known painting The Life museums on the wrong day. research reports on the exhibitions and then between both the two museums and the two Professor Camara Holloway also co-mod- Greene and Rachel Zimmerman, made Line. As curatorial fellows, Nenette Luar- At the Delaware Art Museum, I worked wrote an essay for the exhibition catalogue. internships also created a strong balance for erated a session on teaching Tanner and presentations about Tanner’s print œuvre ca-Shoaf (PhD 2012) and Amy Torbert as- closely with Margaret Winslow, Associate I also scanned materials for the museum’s my curatorial training. While the Rosen- African American art history with Renée and the influence of Rembrandt on Tan- sisted Foster’s investigations into the pivotal Curator of Contemporary Art, on their records, and used some of them as illus- bach internship introduced me to small mu- Ater, Associate Professor of American Art at ner’s portrayal of Lazarus respectively. Anna place The Life Line held in Homer’s career. Centennial Juried Exhibition (October 20, trations for the catalogue. In addition, I seum work and allowed me to participate the University of Maryland. Marley shared additional research about Emily Casey and Jeff Richmond-Moll 2012 – January 13, 2013). The first compo- attended several studio visits with artists in a large number of projects with a tightly Professor Holloway taught a graduate the impact of one of Tanner’s Madonna continued these investigations in a course of- nent of my internship was to monitor the whose artworks posed particular challenges integrated staff, my internship at the Dela- seminar on Tanner taking advantage of paintings on the African American com- fered by the University of Pennsylvania that online artist applications and provide sup- to the exhibition space, including a very ware Art Museum allowed me to focus on the opportunity to meet in the exhibition munity in . Brian Baade spoke was anchored in the exhibition and team- port to all applicants. When Margaret went large wood sculpture made of interlock- one exhibition while collaborating closely galleries. This was the first time that all about Tanner’s techniques. Anna Marley’s taught by Foster and Michael Leja, associate on leave for a month, I acted as the point ing parts, and a piece titled Tackle – that with the curator in charge. Both were won- of Tanner’s surviving Salon paintings had intern and soon-to-be UD graduate student professor of art history at Penn and former person for all inquiries about the exhibition. invited visitors to tackle it. derful opportunities to train and build my been displayed in a single venue, including Jeff Richmond-Moll, who had written his Delaware faculty member. At the same time, I began an extensive proj- At the Rosenbach Museum & Library, portfolio, and I encourage other Curato- his early masterpiece The Resurrection of undergraduate thesis on Tanner, was also September 2012 also saw the open- ect to uncover the history of the Delaware I worked with Katherine Haas, Assistant rial Track students to consider interning at invited to present. ing of Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer Art Museum’s juried exhibitions. Going Curator, on a wide range of collections either of these museums in the future. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit and Maine, an exhibition at the Portland subsequently traveled to the Cincinnati Art Museum of Art co-curated by Karen Museum where another UD alumna, Dr. Sherry (PhD 2011). Sherry’s first project Julie Aronson (PhD 1995), is the Curator at her new institution, Weatherbeaten’s First Mellon Fellowship Awarded of American Paintings and Sculpture. The examination of Homer’s late career with a third and last venue of the tour was the tight focus on his 27 years in Prout’s Neck, Elizabeth Simmons is the recipient of “The doctoral program in art history at Delaware offered Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Maine coincided with the reopening of the the first Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial everything that was important to me – strong academic repu- artist’s newly renovated studio. Current stu- Track Doctoral Fellowship. She works tation, esteemed faculty, supportive atmosphere within the de- dents Katrina Greene, La Tanya Autry, with Professor David M. Stone in Italian Re-Viewing Homer partment and a guaranteed emphasis on curatorial work for and Amy Torbert joined alumnae Anna Baroque art, specializing in Old Master art museums. The Curatorial Track PhD presented a unique This past autumn, Delaware students Marley and Joyce Hill Stoner in making drawings. She received her MA in Italian opportunity that I found nowhere else. While other universi- and alumni were swept away in a flood of a pilgrimage to Homer’s studio in October. Renaissance and Baroque Art History from ties may have encouraged internships or assistantships with renewed interest in Winslow Homer and Building upon the experience of research- Indiana University and her BA from Miami art museums, Delaware made it a priority and I was pleased his paintings of the sea. The exhibitions ing and studying works in both exhibitions, University. Liz has worked in various cura- to be assured support while pursuing curatorial work and Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life the opportunity to stand in Homer’s paint- torial capacities at midwestern art muse- Line, and Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer ing room, look across the Atlantic Ocean ums including the Huntington Museum study. As I begin my second semester at Delaware, I am more and Maine were enriched by loans from from his second-floor “piazza,” and trek of Art; Miami’s Hiestand Galleries; the excited than ever about the excellent academics and curatorial Elizabeth Simmons career possibilities available to me as the first Mellon Fellow Brian Baade collections curated or directed by Dela- along the rocky coastline outside his studio Indiana University Art Museum; and at the ware alumni, including PAFA, the National helped us see Homer anew. Minneapolis Institute of Arts. in the program.” — Elizabeth Simmons

6 7 Faculty Faculty news news

Faculty Notes Faculty Publications

Wendy Bellion. “City as Spectacle: ——. “Groping in the Dark: The Scotopic Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Wendy Bellion enjoyed a year of research William Birch and the Chestnut Street Space of Blackouts,” The Senses and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell, eds. and teaching on the subject of American Theatre.” Studies in the History of Society 7, no. 3 (November 2012): 302–28. Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient sculpture. She has been working on a book Gardens and Designed Landscapes 32, ——. “House and (Haunted) Garden.” Greece and Rome. Austin: University of about sculpture, iconoclasm, and historical no. 1 (February 2004): 15-34. In Sanctioning , edited by Press, 2012. memory in New York City. She looks Monica Penick and Timothy Parker. forward to completing this project during ——. “New England’s Ends.” In New Views Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. David M. Stone. “Signature Killer: her 2013–14 sabbatical with support from of New England: Studies in Material Caravaggio and the Poetics of Blood.” a National Endowment for the Humanities and Visual Culture, 1680-1830, edited Lawrence Nees. “Aspects of Art Bulletin 94, no. 4 (December 2012): Fellowship at Winterthur Museum. A by B. Barnhill and Martha J. Antiquarianism in the art of Bernward 572–593. colloquium on her book Citizen Spectator McNamara. Boston: Colonial Society of and its contemporary analogues.” In 1000 was held at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts, 2012. Jahre St. Michael in Hildesheim: Kirche Vimalin Rujivacharakul. “Mapping American Society for Eighteenth-Century – Kunst – Stifter, edited by Gerhard Lutz Ruins: Yuanming Yuan Archives and Studies in March. Sandy Isenstadt. “The Future is Here: and Angela Weyer. Petersberg: Michael Chinese Architectural History.” Getty Norman Bel Geddes and the Theater Imhof Verlag, 2012. Research Journal 4 (2012): 91-108. of Time.” In I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America, ——. “A Silver ‘Stand’ with Eagles in the edited by Donald Albrecht. New York: Freer Gallery.” Ars Orientalis 42 (2012): Abrams, 2012. 219–228.

Wendy Bellion discusses Wings of Thought, the newest sculpture on Delaware’s campus, with students in her graduate seminar on American sculpture. SPOTLIGHT: Christopher Bennett

Christopher Bennett, the Dean’s and Brazil in the 1960s, Chinese painting several projects: a paper for the session on Undergraduate Education, the Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Art in the 1990s, and new media since 2000. on Horace Vernet at the Association of Interdisciplinary Humanities Research and a noted scholar of postwar Italian art, He recently prepared a review of Anthony Art Historians’ annual meeting in Reading Center’s grant review committee, and published an essay on Italian artist Marisa White’s book Lucio Fontana: Between (UK) in April; an essay on the French art the Renewing the University Museums Merz in February 2012 titled By Way Utopia and Kitsch (MIT Press, 2011) for historian Daniel Arasse commissioned by Working Group. He will serve as interim of Declaration: the Art of Marisa Merz the CAA Art Journal; entitled Flickers from the Art Bulletin; and a catalogue essay for Chair of the Department until a new Chair (MAXXI Museum, Rome). He also co- ‘Beyond,’ his review is scheduled for pub- Ann Eden Gibson the exhibition The World is an Apple: The takes over in September 2014. curated a full-scale exhibition of Alighiero lication this spring. Bennett also recently Still Lives of Paul Cézanne to take place Boetti’s work at the UCLA Fowler museum completed his first submission as a newly Professor Emerita Ann Eden Gibson’s at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario in Lauren Hackworth Petersen is on in Los Angeles running from February to appointed, regular contributor to Artforum book Abstract : Other Politics 2014. She plans to retire in January 2014. sabbatical this year with the support of July 2012—an event for which he gave an – a review of the Philadelphia Museum of (Yale University Press, 1997) was awarded a grant from the Loeb Classical Library opening lecture on Boetti’s entire body of Art’s special exhibition Dancing Around the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Lawrence Nees submitted his newest Foundation to complete her book work to a full auditorium at UCLA and the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Center 2012 Book prize. The prize is given book manuscript, Perspectives on Early manuscript, The Material Life of Roman wrote the lead catalog essay. Shortly after Rauschenberg, and Duchamp (October 30, out every three years for a book that has Islamic Art in Jerusalem, for publication Slaves (co-authored with Sandra Joshel). the inauguration of this exhibition, Bennett 2012–January 21, 2013). changed the field. She will give a talk about in May 2012. He was awarded a Senior traveled to London where he provided the Next semester he will be interviewing the book at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Fellowship at CASVA for the 2013–2014 Vimalin Rujivacharakul was awarded a lead text (Alighiero e Boetti: From Branch Jannis Kounellis as part of his current book in Santa Fe, Arizona on March 21, 2013, academic year, during his scheduled Research Fellowship co-sponsored by the to Branch) for a show of works by Boetti project on the Italian Arte Povera group, and publicly accept the prize. sabbatical, but was obliged to decline Social Science Research Council and Japan on paper curated by Alessandra Bonomo, which is his main focus this year. As part when he accepted the position of interim Foundation for the Promotion of Sciences. which ran concurrently with the retrospec- of the History of Art annual lecture series, Christopher Bennett. Photo by George Freeman. Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer’s term Chair of the Department in January 2013. She gave the following presentations at tive of the artist’s work at the Tate Modern. he presented an overview of this project at as Chair of the Department concluded He continues to serve as President of the Princeton in February 2012: “The Temple This fall Bennett taught a newly designed the beginning of the academic year titled last December. Professor Kallmyer is International Center of Medieval Art, Under Auspicious Clouds,” and “Elevations survey of art since 1945 titled “Contempo- Positioning Arte Povera. He is now laying currently on sabbatical but remains busy. and on the Conference of Administrative of the World,” for the Institute for rary Art: Postwar Europe and the Global the foundations for his second and third nor Sculpture: from the Easel Picture to This January, she led a month-long Study Officers of the American Council of Advanced Study where she was a fellow. Stage,” which covered not only Western book-length studies; this spring he will Environmental Space in European and Abroad group to Greece for UD’s Institute Learned Societies. At UD, he served Europe and the United States, but also teach a seminar pertinent to these devel- American Art, 1945–75.” for Global Studies. She is working on on the Provost’s Ad Hoc Committee art throughout Eastern Europe, Japan oping interests titled “Neither Painting 8 9 Around the Around the Department Department

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

Undergraduate Student Awards

Mollie Armstrong Trudy H. Vinson Memorial Scholarship

Jeremi “Remi” Poindexter Trudy H. Vinson Memorial Scholarship

Hannah Shearer Art History Faculty Award for Academic Excellence Before & After: The New Life for the Old Slide Library former Slide Library in January 2012 and Derek Churchill, Director, Visual Resources in December 2012, showing the removal of the slide cabinets. In 2013, the Department’s Visual Resources of the Department’s extensive collection of This shift has also The few remaining Collection (VRC) enters an exciting new slides has declined dramatically. As a result, freed up valuable space cabinets in the far era. After a five-year transition, the VRC since the beginning of 2012, the holdings of for the Department in corner are scheduled has gone entirely digital. the former Slide Library have been system- the room once filled with to be removed in Since its foundation in the 1960s, the atically removed from active circulation and large cabinets holding early 2013. Photos by Department of Art History has always put into storage. our collection of more George Freeman. relied upon an in-house image collection Digital technology means that instructors than 300,000 slides. The to make possible the teaching and study of no longer need to visit the Slide Library in former Slide Library–one objects and monuments located all around person to pull slides from carefully orga- of the grander rooms in the world. For most of that time, the nized drawers and arrange them in carousel Old College–now begins tools that brought those images into UD trays for their lectures. The VRC of today its new life as a multipurpose space. While classrooms were the 35 mm slide and the exists primarily online, and can be accessed it will continue to be used in part for the Professor Perry Chapman presenting awards to Mollie Armstrong (left) slide projector. During the past decade or from home, office, or anywhere else by VRC’s daily operations, the new space will and Remi Poindexter. Photo by George Freeman. so, as PowerPoint presentations and digital using ARTstor to search for and download also serve the Department in a variety projectors have steadily displaced them, use images. of ways. It provides a room for regular faculty meetings, dissertation defenses, and Above, Nina Kallmyer, conferences with our Curatorial Track PhD Associate Dean Matt program partners from other institutions. It Kinservik, Margaret Werth, can function both as a formal seminar room and Sandy Isenstadt catch for classes and an informal faculty lounge up at the reception after for interaction between the Department’s Chris Bennett’s lecture. professors and students. And it will be used Middle, Professors Ikem to host special events, such as the Depart- S. Okoye and Vimalin ment’s recent holiday party in December, Rujivacharakul. which drew more than 30 faculty, staff, Right, new graduate and student attendees to the new space. students, from left: Karli Many more such activities are already being Wurzelbacher, Elyse Sadeghi, planned for the room in 2013. Liz Simmons, Vanessa Reubendale, Jeff Richmond- Moll, and his wife, Tae. Photos by George Freeman. In December 2012, the former Slide Library hosted the Department’s annual holiday party. Photo by George Freeman. 10 11 Around the graduate Department STUDENT NEWS

Department Lecture Series 2012–2013 Field Directions: Left: Isabelle Havet greets Jill Biden. Below: Isabelle HIGHLIGHT: Havet attends the Fulbright Fellows meeting in Art and History Paris, held in the Palais du Luxembourg. Isabelle Havet Today Isabelle Havet received a September 19, 2012 Fulbright doctoral research Christopher G. Bennett, Dean’s Fellow in grant for 2012–13 to conduct Contemporary Art, University of Delaware research in Paris for her “Positioning Arte Povera” dissertation, “Beneath the Surface: Representations of October 25, 2012 Christopher Bennett and the Graduate Student Lecture Committee. Top row: Amy Torbert, Nicole Cook, Craig Lee (co- Subterranean Space, 1850–1900.” Christy MacLear, Executive Director, Robert chair), Faculty Advisor Professor Camara Holloway. Bottom row: Rachel Zimmerman, Professor Christopher Bennett, Her dissertation examines Rauschenberg Foundation Hannah Segrave, Emily Casey (co-chair). Photo by George Freeman. how subterranean space was and often contradictory manifestations of “Shaping Artistic Legacies: Robert understood, imagined, and consumed , and participated, as it does to Rauschenberg and ” of Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art April 18, 2013 through various media during the second this day, in constructions of community “‘The Atmosphere of Lamps or Dana Leibsohn, Priscilla Paine Van der Poel half of the nineteenth-century in France. identities and social space. November 14, 2012 Moonlight’: The Photographs of Edgar Professor of Art, Smith College Catacombs, sewers, caves, mines, the deep An unexpected thrill for Havet was Elizabeth Bolman, Associate Professor of Art Degas” “From Manila to Mexico: Trade and its sea, and the newly launched metro system the chance to meet Jill Biden, the Vice History, Temple University Objects in Colonial Spanish America” all took on rich visual and textual forms President’s wife and UD alumna, at a “Traditional, New, and Technical March 14, 2013 in Second Empire and Third Republic meeting of the Fulbright Fellows at the Art Histories at the Red and White Wayne Craven Lecture Graduate Student Colloquium, France. Havet will consider how the George Marshall Center in Paris. Biden Monasteries” Sidney Kasfir, Professor Emerita of Art March 7, 2012 underground articulated the complex was a surprise speaker at the event. History, Emory University Presenters: Elisabeth Berry Drago, Colin February 21, 2013 “Can This Patient Be Saved? Schism and Nelson-Dusek, Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, Lynley William I. Homer Lecture Generational Shift in the Field of African Herbert, Barbara Kutis Malcolm Daniel, Senior Curator, Department Art History” HIGHLIGHT: Craig Lee This summer I was fortunate to be the the Kaufmann family. The site, well outside The experience allowed me to learn from Judy Cheteyan Collections Intern at Pittsburgh in southwestern Pennsylvania, the dedicated staff about the structure and Art History Fallingwater, that “house on the waterfall” is remote, but made for an immersive nature of a modern historic house museum. designed by Frank in 1936 for summer, both stimulating and languorous. Through my first project, helping to Club Report organize and install an exhibition featuring artists from a local craft school, I gained In 2012, the Art History Club and its mem- an appreciation for the area and valuable bers explored art and art history in a variety experience in putting together a show. My of ways. In April, students travelled to the primary project, though, involved working Philadelphia Museum of Art for the much-an- with the collections. By the end of the ticipated exhibition Van Gogh: Up Close. Van summer, I completed an inventory for the Gogh’s intimate perspective captivated club over 700 objects in the house and began to members. Students also discovered many new see the house, Wright, and the Kaufmanns local and international artists at First Fridays in a whole new way. I am grateful, and still in Wilmington and Philadelphia. dumbfounded, to have had the chance to In October, the Art History Club collabo- get to know such an iconic house, both rated with the Art Conservation Club to host outside and inside, so closely. A welcome its first trivia night. Students tested their art visit from fellow graduate students Tiffany historical knowledge while competing for Racco, Hannah Segrave, and Amy small prizes from the Metropolitan Museum offered students opportunities to prepare Art History Club Officers, from left: Anna Kamensky, Torbert in August confirmed that the of Art. Additionally, movie showings of Lust for their futures with Q&A sessions with Audrey Landmark, Kristin Wittman, Mollie Armstrong, experience was indeed real. for Life, Spellbound, and Frida provided faculty on internships and graduate schools. Vinnie Ryan. Photo by George Freeman. glimpses into the lives and the artwork of Students networked with peers and profes- several of our members’ favorite artists. sors over lox and bagels at the club’s bian- Craig Lee, Amy Torbert, Hannah Segrave, and Tiffany Racco Throughout 2012, the Art History Club nual Student Faculty Luncheon. stand in awe before Fallingwater’s eponymous feature. 12 13 graduate graduate STUDENT NEWS STUDENT NEWS

HIGHLIGHT: Emily Casey Emily Casey at the Iglesia de Compania Graduate Student Notes de Jesus in Cusco, Peru. Emily Casey won a Predoctoral Summer art scene and revival of indigenous craft Amy Torbert pre- Fellowship for Historians of American Art traditions present in both countries. Sarah Beetham was awarded two fellow- sented a paper titled to Travel Abroad from CASVA. The fellow- The people I met along the way empha- ships for the past academic year from the “Threatened Fragmen- ship allows emerging scholars of American sized the concept of syncretism in their Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library tation: The American art to engage with art and history outside description of their own cultural heritage – and the American Antiquarian Society. She Colonies in Sayer and the U.S. that is related to their research. the idea that the many peoples and tradi- delivered a paper entitled “Sentinel at the Bennett’s Maps and Casey used the fellowship for a six-week tions that encountered each other in the Old North Bridge: French’s Minute Man Prints, 1770–80” at the study trip to Peru and Mexico studying New World responded to and adapted to and the Monument Market,” at the South- Cleveland Graduate colonial Latin American art. She describes each other to make something wholly new. eastern College Art Conference in Durham, Student Symposium her experiences as follows: I saw this dynamic at work in the relation- Now back at UD, as I prepare for my mi- North Carolina in October 2012. The talk in March, where it My five weeks of traveling in Peru and ship between native and European tradi- nor field examination in Latin American art “Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction earned the prize for Mexico allowed me to steep myself in the art, tions in the colonial period, evident in the history, the experience of having seen the and National Memory, 1865–1917” was pre- best paper. After pass- architectural, and cultural history of Latin museums and sites I visited. I also found sites and works I am studying shapes my sented during the Graduate Student Light- ning Round at the Association of Historians ing her comprehensive America. I shaped my itinerary as a broad syncretism to be a useful way of thinking approach to the material. Remembering the UD faculty, alumnae, and students from the departments of art history and of American Art Symposium in Boston. exams this fall, she is survey; in my explorations I encountered about the relationship between the past and syncretism between the art and art conversation gather at the Association for Historians of American Art excited to develop a pre-Conquest Inca and Aztec sites; colonial the present. Everywhere I went, I was fas- I encountered in modern Mexico and Peru Symposium in Boston, October 2012. Front row: Anna Marley, Nenette Luarca- dissertation topic on buildings, paintings, and sculpture; early- cinated to see how much the modern spaces enlivens my understanding of the themes Katrina Greene published an article Shoaf, Sarah Beetham, Joyce Hill Stoner. Middle row: Camara Holloway, eighteenth-century twentieth century mural paintings and pub- and artistic practices I encountered were in and ideas that drive the art history of this “‘Beautiful Tones’: Liquid Graphite Draw- Charlotte Seifen Ameringer, La Tanya Autry, Amber Kerr-Allison. Back row: Anglo-American prints lic art; as well as the vibrant contemporary conversation with the culture’s past. part of the world. ings by Ernest Haskell.” Master Drawings: Ashley Rye, Amy Torbert, Katrina Greene, Jessica Ford, Louise Groll Orsini. Modern and Contemporary Drawings 50: 2 and transatlantic places. (Summer 2012): 153–156. Look for alumna A highlight of Amy’s year was working with Teaching Program, where he and students Heather Campbell Coyle (PhD 2011)’s Hannah Segrave to organize a weekly in- discussed post-war art of California and Graduate Student Awards essay in the same issue: “The Forgotten dependent reading group focused on topics the writing of contemporary art discourse. Side of the : A Drawing by of methodology and historiography of art During the spring of 2013, Ted will teach La Tanya Autry Nicole Cook Delaware Public Humanities Institute American Robert Henri.” Master Draw- history. In addition, she published a short an undergraduate course in Art History at Early Stage Dissertation Grant, Outstanding Achievement in Graduate (DELPHI), University of Delaware ings: Modern and Contemporary Drawings article in the 2012 Yale Art Gallery Bulletin Santa Monica College. Department of Art History, Studies in Art History Award 50: 2 (Summer 2012): 157–160. on a still life by William Michael Harnett. University of Delaware Early Stage Dissertation Grant, Elizabeth Scheulen Melanson Karli Wurzelbacher and Shawna Cooper Department of Art History, Delaware Public Humanities Institute In September 2012, Craig Lee presented Ted Triandos participated in the confer- curated Times Square Show Revisited that was Sarah Beetham University of Delaware (DELPHI), University of Delaware the paper, “Skyline Spectacular: The PSFS ence Art, Theory, an the Critique of Ideol- on view at the Hunter College Art Galler- Research Fellowship, American Sign and Philadelphia’s Aerial Landscape,” ogy, 1975–95, hosted by the Sterling and ies in New York City from September 14 to Antiquarian Society Elisabeth Berry Drago Tanya Pohrt at the Pioneer America Society conference Francine Clark Institute in April of 2012, December 8, 2012. The exhibition was the Dissertation Fellowship, Winterthur University Graduate Fellowship, Marcia Brady Tucker Curatorial Fellowship in Philadelphia. where he presented material from his dis- first focused assessment of the landmark 1980 Museum, Garden and Library College of Arts and Sciences, in American Paintings and Sculpture, sertation, A Social History of Postmodern- Times Square Show organized by the artist University of Delaware Yale University Art Gallery As a Curatorial Fellow at the Yale University ist Art and Its Criticism, and participated group Collaborative Projects, Inc. A catalog Emily Casey Art Gallery, Tanya Pohrt spent much of in roundtable discussions with prominent of artist interviews, a comprehensive website Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowship Isabelle Havet Ashley Rye 2012 helping with the Gallery’s building reno- scholars in the field of contemporary art. (www.timessquareshowrevisited.com), and a for Historians of American Art to Travel Anna R. and Robert T. Silver Award, Graduate Assistantship in the Mark vation and expansion project, working closely In December of 2012, Ted, under the kind full schedule of public programming accom- Abroad, Center for Advanced Study in Department of Art History, Samuels Lasner Collection, University with the American miniatures. In June, she invitation of Dr. Julia Bloch, led a gradu- panied the exhibition, which received critical the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, University of Delaware of Delaware Library gave a gallery talk entitled “Rereading John ate seminar at the Bard Master of Arts in attention in Artforum and The Paris Review. Washington, DC Fulbright US Student Study/Research Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence.” Award, US Department of State Amy Torbert University Graduate Fellowship, Jeff Richmond-Moll held a summer cura- College of Arts and Sciences, torial internship in Drawings and Decora- University of Delaware M.A. Degrees Ph.D. Degrees Delaware Public Humanities Institute tive Arts at the New-York Historical Society (DELPHI), University of Delaware (NYHS). He presented the paper “Beyond Casey, Emily, “‘An ocean of punch’: Finding the Early American Republic at Sea” (W. Herbert, Lynley Anne, “LUX VITA: The Majesty and Humanity of Christ in the Society: Henry O. Tanner, the AME, and the Bellion) Gospels of Sainte-Croix of Poitiers” (L. Nees) Katie Wood Kirchhoff Social Margin” at the Nineteenth Century Summer Dissertation Fellowship, College of Studies Association Annual Conference in Oleas, Isabel, “Troubling Encounters: Portrait of Don Francisco De Arobe and His Luarca-Shoaf, Nenette, “The Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture” (W. Bellion) Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware March 2012, and will give a paper entitled Sons, By Andres Sanchez Gallque” (M. Domínguez-Torres) “Between Shores: Henry O. Tanner, Trans- Moss, Dorothy, “Translations, Appropriations, and Copies of Paintings at the Dawn of Rachel Zimmerman atlanticism and the Margins of Space” at the Segrave, Hannah, “The Art of Painting and Constructions of Vermeer’s Artistic Mass Culture in the United States, c. 1900” (M. Leja and M. Werth) Personality” (P. Chapman) Outstanding Achievement in Graduate CAA Annual Conference in February 2013. Studies in Art History Award

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Empassioned Visions Island house poles and trapping insects the UDSIS class registration bogged down and send postcards. I’m sure professors will in my residence hall for integrated and my perfect schedule was ruined, I want to know what their former students are Convocation Address by pest management practice were just as begrudgingly took church music history up to, and writing is an invaluable skill for important and interesting. Some here took instead. The professor peaked my interest every occupation. In doing this, we will find Hannah Shearer, Class of 2012 the risk of switching direction completely, in the organ, and oddly enough I have been that opportunities abound. changing majors from chemistry to playing it since. You just never know when To our professors, staff, family members, conservation, and some are headed to something unexpected may lead to another and friends, thank you for supporting each Good afternoon everyone, new places. I for one never imagined that great opportunity. member of the University of Delaware Hannah Shearer receives an award from Professor From long nights in the studio, to I would be working for a study abroad From the start, our professors have class of 2012 in the pursuit of their dreams. Perry Chapman. Photo by George Freeman. equally long nights solving organic institute in Denmark upon graduation. treated us as more than students. They To my classmates, thank you for making chemistry problem sets, to archival Nor did I expect when I enrolled in “Art have treated us as colleagues. And in the these a memorable four years! research of campus architecture, over the and Warfare in Latin America” to find relatively small fields of art history and As Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, course of our undergraduate years we all the subject so appealing, having primarily conservation, we will continue to work “Art is not a treasure in the past or an have been challenged by multi-disciplinary studied art in Europe. One thing I’ve closely with one another in our professional importation from another land, but part of classes. One professor remarked on my learned in these past years is to turn pursuits. We should stay close with our the present life of all living and creating experience, “You have this remarkable unforeseen situations to advantage. When professors and with each other. Write emails peoples.” and hideously difficult field in which you have already exceeded the normal boundaries of ‘I just want to fix paintings’ and moved beyond that into an expansive and passionate vision of what it means to RISING STAR: humanity, of how critical it is to humanity, to preserve and protect the things that Nenette Luarca-Shoaf (PhD 2012) tell us why WE’RE worth preserving, why humans deserve space on the planet and Prior to entering the PhD program at cultural discourses of the in the universe, the things that express our the University of Delaware in 2006, I decades leading up to the Civil connection to the divine.” had already spent several years building War. The graduating class here today is a career in museum education, working I am living in Philadelphia passionate about material culture, whether at institutions such as the Art Institute of but will travel to Fort Worth creating, studying, or preserving it. Some Chicago and the St. Louis Art Museum. a few times a year until the question where these studies will lead us Six years later, degree in-hand, I am exhibition opens to meet with – a studio, a museum, a gallery, a library, returning to museum work in a different educators, conservators, and another few years of study. Perhaps Upon graduating from UD, I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, a beautiful capacity: as guest curator for Navigating my co-curator, Shirley Reece- we’ll branch out. We have already had city full of museums, parks, and an impressive array of historic and the West: George Caleb Bingham and Hughes, who is coordinating the privilege of working in museums . Every day I bike to the Danish Institute for Study the River, an exhibition that opens at the artwork loans. I am teaching around this country and others, engaged Abroad (DIS), a study abroad program taught in English that I attended Amon Carter Museum of American Art and serving as social media directly in preserving cultural heritage so fall semester of senior year. As Study Tour Assistant, I work with faculty in Fort Worth, Texas, in fall 2014, and coordinator for the McNeil that future generations can know their to coordinate adventure trips and course-integrated study tours across subsequently travels to the St. Louis Art Center for Early American history. We recognize that the field may Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Studies. not be lucrative, but find satisfaction in Europe, and I even have the opportunity to lead some. I am pleased to Art. The exhibition focuses on the intense The opportunity to get Nenette Luarca-Shoaf with her celebrating the products of creative human be using my art history background not only for planning museum visits, engagement of Bingham, a canonical involved with Navigating the proud adviser, Wendy Bellion. nature. Whatever you have studied and but also creating a series of guides to looking and thinking about art, so American genre painter known for his West came at just the right wherever you intend to go from here, our that our students can have more fulfilling and interactive experiences with paintings of country elections and river moment and motivated me to University of Delaware education has some of the major collections they visit. One such is the Leopold Museum boatmen, with the places and people of finish my dissertation, “The prepared us to think broadly and to apply in Vienna where European Clinical Psychology students can study Egon the and Mississippi River Valleys. Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Art, I assisted in planning the exhibition our skills and knowledge beyond the study Schiele in light of Freudian theories. It features about fifty drawings, twenty- Culture,” in just three years. Though Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life of art. five paintings, and a number of prints the exhibition’s content is rooted in my Line, and curated Western Movement, an It’s bittersweet to be taking leave of that Bingham created at the height of his dissertation, the varied fellowships I installation of prints and photographs that beautiful Old College, the haunt of art always welcomed to discuss our latest the field globally. career during the 1840s and 1850s. New had and the interdisciplinary group of explored ways that people have moved in history and art conservation students (and research or career prospects. While we We have developed enormously during conservation studies on the paintings and established and emerging scholars I met and around the West in the nineteenth the French TAs under the stairs). The may find ourselves waxing nostalgic, we our time here, growing comfortable drawings will be used to determine the throughout my time as a doctoral student and twentieth centuries. Completing my two departments offer an unparalleled can take pride in not only what we have with things that weren’t on our agendas artist’s working process in more depth. My were just as important for preparing me doctorate has truly been a journey in which collaboration, to which many double accomplished academically, but also in the before. I came into conservation thinking essay for the catalogue emphasizes the to take on this new project. Most directly, each new experience built on prior ones, majors in this room can attest. From one fact the professors with whom we have I would be restoring masterpieces, and important role that images of the inland as the 2010–2011 Barra Curatorial and I look forward to where the Bingham end of the third floor to the other, we were worked closely are committed leaders in found that vacuuming mold from Solomon rivers had for shaping economic, political, Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of exhibition takes me next. 16 17 alumni alumni corner corner

RISING STAR: Melody Barnett Deusner (PhD 2010) related to the exhibition, Art of Another Top, Camara Holloway and Kind: International Abstraction and the Anna Marley This has been an exciting first year benefitted tremendously this year Guggenheim, 1949–1960. with Friends for me as a newly appointed Assistant from opportunities for me to present Two September events drew sell-out in the Tanner Professor at Indiana University, my findings at the Newberry Library, crowds. The first, a Saturday Symposium exhibition Bloomington. It’s such an honor to be the Paul Mellon Centre in London, held in collaboration with the Brandywine galleries at able to build upon the department’s CAA, and elsewhere. I’m also taking River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa. PAFA. Below, strong foundation in the history of advantage of the many interdisciplinary centered around the exhibition Picturing Larry Nees American art established by Sarah outlets for discussion and collaboration Poe: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s conducts the Burns. at IU, which include gatherings of Stories and Poems. The symposium Friends tour at the Cloisters. This year I’ve been teaching Victorian Studies and American featured Audrey Lewis (MA 1993), the undergraduate and graduate courses Studies specialists as well as research curator of Picturing Poe, as well as UD in American art before 1945, groups exploring new frontiers of the faculty Wendy Bellion, Nina Kallmyer, building upon and adapting some experimental and digital humanities. and Edward Larkin, associate professor of of the material I was teaching at Looking ahead, I plan to expand English. Dr. Matt Kinservik, professor and Northwestern during my two-year my research on art collecting, associate dean for the humanities for the Terra Foundation postdoctoral business, and political networks in College of Arts and Sciences, was delighted Kallmyer have been fellowship. I’ve also been developing 19th-century America and Britain to with the outcome: “We had 109 people working closely with new courses, including a 300-level Melody Barnett Deusner include computerized models and spend possibly the most beautiful Saturday Matt Kinservik and class that I’m particularly looking network-mapping components with this fall indoors! We’re reconnecting the Office of the forward to teaching next fall, the assistance of Indiana’s Institute alumni with the University, and we’re Dean of Arts and “Networks and Communities in American and provided a context in which it has for Digital Arts and Humanities. Indiana doing it through cultural programming and Sciences to launch an Art,” which has been accepted by the IU been understood and valued, because I University, Bloomington, like Delaware, partnerships with institutions.” adult travel program. College of Arts and Sciences as part of its believe that studying past intersections of is classified as a Research I university, and In late September, ninety-one Friends The intention is to 2013 thematic semester cross-disciplinary art and money is an essential step toward it is truly rewarding to be affiliated with traveled to The Cloisters in upper design premium course bundle, “Connectedness: Networks becoming more informed, sophisticated, an institution that balances teaching and Manhattan to participate in a day devoted scholar-led journeys in a Complex World.” I will also teach and effectual participants in current research time. to medieval art. Guests were escorted to foreign and a graduate seminar on “American Art debates around issues of arts funding, I remain, as always, deeply grateful for through the museum by Larry Nees, domestic locations. in Exhibition,” which will focus on late private and institutional patronage, and the teaching experiences, focused research who serves as the current president of According to Nigro, 20th- and early 21st-century approaches the value of art history as a scholarly opportunities, and close mentoring I the International Center of Medieval Art “Travel with scholars to exhibiting historical American art. My discipline. received at the University of Delaware, headquartered at The Cloisters, and by is enriching, fun, and courses continue to emphasize economic My developing book manuscript which have helped me enjoy a smooth colleagues from The Cloisters, Dr. Leslie often opens doors factors that have shaped American art (adapted from my dissertation) has transition during my first year at Indiana. Busis Tait and Danielle Oteri. The day inaccessible to the in New York included a luncheon and average tourist. We was supported in part by the UD Alumni have tremendous Friends of Art History Report Association. faculty at UD who Co-chair of the Friends, Dr. Carol Nigro are eager to share structures for the Friends so that it will The Friends of Art History enjoyed a Another art history alumna, Rachel graduate and distinguished Professor of commented that these activities illuminate their worlds. We hope we’ll be able to become an important, supportive arm of growth spurt in 2012. Only in its second Sirota, Manager of Public Programs at Art History, Rutgers University. Marter’s the importance of the humanities and help to announce the first trips this year.” the Department. “We are in the midst of year, the group attracted hundreds of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum lecture on 1950s American sculpture make the study of them relevant to a general The increase in Friends activities working with the administration to solidify alumni and supporters to its programs; of Art in New York, audience. “We recognize that the University would not have been possible without the our status within UD and are concentrating spearheaded the initiation of a scholar-led, was instrumental in Nina Kallmyer and Audrey Lewis discuss can and should be an intellectual and cultural participation of a new co-chair, Thorpe on attracting individuals to serve on alumni travel program; and welcomed making her institution Poe exhibition. nexus. The Department can play a vital role Moeckel. Moeckel is a long-time UD our committees. We’ve had alumni step a new co-chair. Thanks to the generous accessible to the UD in this by presenting volunteer who has served as a president forward in the last year, particularly to help efforts of art history alumni and faculty, the community, especially the work of UD art of the UD Alumni Association and on us with events, and hope we’ll increase Friends organized four events that offered young alumni, many historians to the the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s that trend. We want to continue to put the its art-loving community special access of whom visited the broader community Advisory Committee. Moeckel’s expertise art history department into the minds of to institutions and exhibitions and more Guggenheim for the and strengthening the is being focused on building enduring everyone linked to the UD community.” insight into the work of art historians. first time. On June 15, networks among our In April, Anna Marley held a private more than sixty-five UD incredible alumni and The Friends of Art History is looking for volunteers! If you can open your tour of the exhibition Henry Ossawa supporters attended a faculty.” institution for a special or collaborative event, want to help with programs, or can Tanner: Modern Spirit. She and Camara program and reception In addition serve on a committee, please contact Departmental Administrator Linda Magner, Holloway led twenty-five Friends through featuring the prominent to these events, [email protected]. To join the Friends of Art History, please go to www.udel.edu/ the exhibition at PAFA, described by the art historian, Dr. Joan the Friends and ArtHistory and click on the FRIENDS link at the top right of the page. New York Times as “historically gripping.” Marter, a UD doctoral Thorpe Moeckel former chair Nina 18 19 alumni alumni corner corner

Alumni Notes published a cover story on the history of neon newly launched Open Inquiry Archive (http:// Havana Biennial” in the Delaware Review of Richard T. Jett (MA 1983) versity. The citation reads lighting (co-written with her husband Joseph openinquiryarchive.net/), an online journal of Latin American Studies (December 2012); has retired from his position in part “Professor Marter Allan Antliff (PhD 1998) continues as Canada Rucker) in the Summer 2012 issue of Chemi- scholarly papers on culture. and “Fetishizing the Funk: Betty Davis, Renée as Metro Louisville Historic has been acclaimed in the Research Chair at the University of Victoria, cal Heritage, the magazine of the Chemical Stout, and Expressions of Black Female Sexual- Preservation Officer. He documented testimonies of Canada. His recent publications include “Stieg- Heritage Foundation. In July, she spoke on Diane Evans (MA 1996) is the Executive ity” in a special issue on “funk” in the American was honored for his career internationally distinguished litz parmi les anarchists,” Carrefour Alfred the history of high-speed photography in Director of Sonoma County Museum. She Studies Journal (Forthcoming 2013). of service to Louisville experts for her scholarly Stieglitz, Jay Bochner and Jean-Pierre Montier, Philadelphia’s “Science on Tap” public science received a $79,000 Museums Connect grant and the Commonwealth contributions to contempo- eds. (Presses Universitaires Rennes, 2012) and lecture series. In the fall, she taught an adult from the American Alliance of Museums and George Gurney (PhD 1978) continues as an as recipient of the Ida Lee rary art and art history.” Dr. “Anarchism and Art History: Methodologies education course on the history of photogra- the US State Department for an exchange emeritus curator at the Smithsonian American Willis Memorial Award for Marter continues as Editor of Insurrection,” The Continuum Companion phy for the Wagner Free Institute of Science. program with the Gyeonggi Museum of Mod- Art Museum. excellence in preservation, of Women’s Art Journal, to Anarchism, Ruth Kinna, ed. (Continuum ern Art in Ansan, South Korea. The project is which was presented during now in its 33rd year of Press, 2012). He also gave a talk on “Anarchism Alan C. Braddock (PhD 2002) left his posi- called North-South: Art as a Tool to Mediate Lynley Anne Herbert (PhD 2012) defended a ceremony May 31 at the continuous publication. In and Contemporary Art” at the symposium, tion at Temple University in 2012 to become Political and Social Conflict. Its goal is to her dissertation and was nominated for the Governor’s Mansion. The 2012, Marter published an Anarchism Today, held at Goldsmith’s College, the Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art compare the human side of the parallel expe- University’s Wilbur Owen Sypherd Disserta- Memorial Award acknowl- essay “Abstract Sculpture in University of London (October 26, 2012) and History and American Studies at the College riences of living near Korea’s Demilitarized tion Prize. This May, she will be the keynote edges outstanding dedica- the Atomic Age” in Art of of William and Mary. For the academic year Zone and living in neighborhoods affected by tion to the cause of historic Another Kind: International presented a paper “Prefigurative Prerequisite,” speaker at a conference in Poitiers, France, Richard Jett receives the Memorial on anarchist-feminist politics and New York 2011–12, Dr. Braddock was Senior Fellow at the Norteño-Sureño gang conflict in Northern where she will share the findings of her dis- preservation in the Com- Award from Mrs. Sally Willis Meigs Abstraction and the Gug- at the 13th International Conference the Smithsonian American Art Museum in California. Students will explore similarities sertation research to the city that owns the monwealth. As preservation at the 2012 Ida Lee Willis Memorial genheim, 1949–1960, and Utopian Studies Society in Tarragona, Spain Washington, D.C., working on a new book in experiences, reconsider their environments manuscript she wrote about. She has been officer for Metro Louisville, Preservation Awards ceremony. she presented a lecture on (July 4–7, 2012). titled Gun Vision: The Ballistic Imagination from the perspectives of their peers abroad, a Curatorial Associate in the Department of Dr. Jett served as lead staff Photograph by Becky Gorman related material at the Gug- in American Art. An article related to that and create collaborative art that reflects and Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Walters for the Historic Landmarks genheim Museum in June. Jody Blake (PhD 1992) organized two major project, titled “Armory Shows: The Spec- involves their communities. Art Museum in Baltimore for the past three and Preservation Districts Commission, dem- She published “Der Abstrakte Expressismus exhibitions from the McNay’s Tobin Col- tacular Life of a Building Type to 1913,” in years. Following the departure of the curator onstrated leadership as an administrator and und seine europaischen Wurzeln” for a book lection of Theatre Arts: Baroque to Bau- the fall 2012 issue of the journal American Betsy Fahlman (PhD 1981, MA 1977) pub- of manuscripts, Dr. Herbert has been appoint- researcher, and built key alliances and partner- on Expressionism, published by Hatje Cantz haus and Songs of Social Significance, which Art. His essay titled “From Nature to Ecol- lished two essays on Arizona’s early women ed interim manager. She is also overseeing the ships among diverse groups of constituents. Verlag. An article on sculptor William King included a Mozart concert and a reading ogy: Interpretation at the Tipping Point” will artists before 1945: “New Women, Southwest digitization the manuscript collection, which appeared in Sculpture in October. On May of Ifa Bayeza’s The Ballad of Emmett Till, be published in The Oxford Companion to Culture: Arizona’s Early Art Community,” ap- has been funded by two NEH grants. Her Anna O. Marley (PhD 2009), the Curator of 30, Dr. Marter moderated a panel of women among other programs. Acquisitions for the American Art History, edited by John Davis, peared in Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton: Artist exhibition Living by the Book: Monks, Nuns, Historical American Art, Pennsylvania Academy sculptors at the National Academy Museum Tobin Collection included costume drawings Jason LaFountain, and Jennifer Greenhill. He and Advocate in Early Arizona and “Making and their Manuscripts opens at the Walters of the Fine Arts, had a busy 2012. Henry Os- titled “Against the Grain: Strategies, Choices, for the recent Broadway production of Kiss is also developing an interdisciplinary edited the Cultural Desert Bloom: Arizona’s Early in July. Her recent publications are: “Duccio’s sawa Tanner: Modern Spirit opened at PAFA in and Controversies of Women in Sculpture.” Me Kate by Martin Pakledinaz and engrav- volume of essays on Philadelphia ecology and Women Artists,” was published in Arizona’s Metropolitan Madonna: Between Byzantium January with a record opening attended by over She was selected to present the Distinguished ings from the beginnings of opera and ballet the material imagination in art and litera- Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the and the Renaissance,” in the Italian journal 1200 people. This was followed by a successful Alumni Lecture at Tyler School of Art, under the Medici and Louis XIV. Dr. Blake ture. In July 2012, Dr. Braddock joined the Grand Canyon State. Both were published by Arte Medievale (May 2012), and “The Manu- Scholars’ Day attended by many in the UD art Temple University, in March 2012. also contributed to World Scenography, editorial board of the journal American Art. the Museum of Northern Arizona, in Flagstaff scripts of the Walters Art Museum: Henry community; a national tour to the Cincinnati 1975–1990 (OISTAT, 2012) and presented (co-founded by a woman artist in 1928); and Walters’ Gift to the World,” in the calligraphy Art Museum and the Houston Museum of Fine Laurette E. McCarthy (PhD 1996) is at the annual conference of SIBMAS devoted Sandra Cheng (PhD 2008) is Assistant Pro- both were in publications accompanying journal Scripsit (June 2012). Arts; and lots of media appearances the highlight involved with several projects related to the to Innovative Techniques for Performing Arts fessor in the Humanities Department, New exhibitions, one of which opened in June, the of which was a live interview on the PBS New- centennial of the 1913 International Exhibi- Collections (Victoria and Albert Museum, York City College of Technology, CUNY. She other in November. Joyce Hill Stoner (PhD 1995) and Re- sHour. Dr. Marley published two books, which tion of , better known as the London, 2012). presented a paper, “The Carracci, Caricature, becca Rushfield co-edited Conservation of accompanied her exhibitions Henry Ossawa Armory Show. Dr. McCarthy co-curated the and Studio Practice,” at the 2012 Renaissance Nikki A. Greene (PhD 2009) is completing Easel Paintings (Routledge, 2012), which is Tanner: Modern Spirit (University of California exhibition, The New Spirit: American Art in Jane E. Boyd (PhD 2009) works as an Society of America conference in Washington, a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the first comprehensive text on the history, Press, 2012) – which called the Armory Show, 1913 with Montclair Art independent curator and freelance writer, DC; and a second paper, “Ridiculous Por- Wellesley College, where she offered classes philosophy, and methods of treatment of “excellent” and was hailed by bigthink.com as Museum chief curator Gail Stavitsky. She editor, and translator in Philadelphia. Her traits: Theories of the Comic Ugly and Early on African-American Art and Art of the African easel paintings that combines theory with one of the top 10 art books of 2012 – and A Mine has written an article, “Armory Show: New museum projects for 2012 included Secrets of Modern Caricature,” at the international Diaspora. In January 2013, she traveled to practice. With contributions from an inter- of Beauty: Landscapes by William Trost Richards Perspectives and Recent Rediscoveries,” for the Diorama, a new long-term exhibition at colloquium, Rire en images à la Renaissance, Ethiopia to serve as a Visiting Instructor at the national group of experts and interviews with (PAFA and Marquand Press, 2012). She also the Archives of American Art Journal’s issue the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel at the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art in Alle School of Fine Arts and Design at Addis important artists, this volume provides an all- co-curated the exhibition A New Look: Samuel devoted to the centennial, as well as a blog University. She is the co-curator of Broken Paris. She has published, “The Monstrous Ababa University. In February 2013, she was encompassing guide to necessary background F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre at PAFA. In for their website and has contributed an es- Bodies, Suffering Spirits: Injury, Death, and Portrait: Caricature, Physiognomy, and Mon- an invited panelist for the symposium Jazz: A knowledge in technical art history, artists’ an attempt to recover from the exhaustion of the say, “Walter Pach: Agent of Modernism,” to Healing in Civil War Philadelphia, a long- sters in Early Modern Italy” in Preternature: Dialogue in the Performance and Visual Arts at materials, scientific methods of examination Tanner show she trained for and completed her the New-York Historical Society’s exhibition term exhibition opening Fall 2013 at the Critical and Historical Studies on the Preter- the David C. Driskell Center at the University and documentation. first triathlon with fellow Blue Hen art history catalogue for their show, The Armory Show at Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians natural; and “La touche satirique du Bernini: of Maryland where she presented, “Romare PhD Amy Henderson (PhD 2008). 100. She will be the “on-camera” historian for of Philadelphia, which received an implemen- dessin et caricature comme acte performatif Bearden, Jazz, and Postmodern Invisibility.” Catherine Reed Holochwost (PhD 2011) a forthcoming documentary: “The Great Con- tation grant for the show from the Institute of au début de l’époque moderne” in Roven. Her two most recent publications include: “Art- was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Joan Marter (PhD 1974) has been named fusion: The 1913 Armory Show,” produced by Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Boyd Dr. Cheng is on the editorial board of the ists’ Utopia? Cuban Art Defined at the 11th Smithsonian American Art Museum. Board of Governors Professor by Rutgers Uni- 217 Films.

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Curators Julie Aronson The Working Man’s Green Parks, Lehigh University, and the Blakeley Tess Sol Schwab (MA 2007) is Associate Di- for the Humanities at Wellesley College and Anna Marley at the Space: Allotment Gardens Battlefield Conference, Mobile, AL. He rector at Driscoll Babcock Galleries. Driscoll Kristel Smentek (PhD 2008), Assistant where she had the pleasure of meeting Cincinnati Art Museum. in England, France, and served as a Juror for Arts Alive Festival in Babcock Galleries represents historic and Professor of Art History in the Department her fellow fellow and UD alumna, Nikki Photo courtesy of the Germany, 1870–1919, was Tuscumbia, AL and was elected to the Board current artists who have proven instrumental of Architecture, MIT, spent much of 2012 Greene. Cincinnati Art Museum. accepted for publication by the of Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation. in extending visual culture, and whose works travelling. She presented research related University of Virginia Press. An resonate beyond the timeframe in which they to her new book project, tentatively titled Allegra D’Aprile Smith (BA 2012) has been edited collection of essays on Mark Pohlad (PhD 1994), Associate Profes- were created. Objects of Encounter: Framing China in working at the in the nineteenth-century photo- sor of Art History and Associate Dean at Eighteenth-Century France, in Nuremberg, Digital Learning Department of Museum graphs of architecture from DePaul University in Chicago, participated in Wilford W. Scott (PhD 1984) continues as Edmonton, and at the Bard Graduate Cen- Education. MoMA offers Instructor-Led and the 2010 EAHN meeting and a panel discussion on Spielberg’s film, Lincoln, the head of adult programs in the education ter in New York where she delivered one of Self-Guided courses that are either art history the IU South Bend/University at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library division of the National Gallery of Art. Last the Françoise and Georges Selz Endowed based or studio based on broad topics ranging of Notre Dame symposium is and Museum in Springfield, . year his photographs appeared in the follow- Lectures in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- from Modern Art from 1880–1945 to Color in scheduled to be released by ing national, juried exhibitions: Focal Point Century French Decorative Arts, Design, Modern and Contemporary Art. In addition to Ashgate in 2013. Susan Rather (PhD 1986, MA 1981) was 2012 (Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, and Culture. Her work also took her to producing and managing the Online Courses, the inaugural senior scholar in the new MD), American Landscapes (MFA), Works Beijing where she spoke at “Qing Encoun- Smith offers her own Online Course to teens Elizabeth J. Moodey (MA 1987) published Percy North (PhD 1974) served as guest Tyson Scholars of American Art program at on Paper (MFA), Flowers 2012 (1650 Gallery, ters,” a conference sponsored by the Getty called Parts of a Whole: 5 Big Artistic Ideas. Illuminated Crusader Histories for Philip curator for Max Weber on Long Island at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in Los Angeles, CA), Photography by Design Research Institute and Peking University. She remarked: “Of course, I would not have the Good of Burgundy (Brepols, 2012). This the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, NY, residence during fall 2012. She has just been (Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT), Dr. Smentek organized a session on the been able to get this far without the fantastic study of the visual and literary projects that 2012 for which she wrote a brief catalogue awarded an NEH fellowship for 2013–14, and the Second National Juried Photography theme of “Buildings and Objects: Baroque, art history program at the University of Dela- supported Philip’s efforts to launch a crusade, essay and gave a lecture for the show. She which will allow her to complete her book Exhibit (Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Fred- Rococo and Beyond” at the Society of Ar- ware. I truly loved learning from the faculty; long after the days of the “classic” crusades, also wrote an essay for the current exhibition The American School: Artists and Status in erick, MD). chitectural Historians annual conference in thank you all for everything you did to help sets these manuscripts in the context of his Models and Muses: Max Weber and the Figure the Late Colonial and Early National Era. Detroit. Its papers are under review by the me succeed in starting my career!” court’s interest in history writing and updated and gave a keynote lecture at the Philbrook Recent publications include “‘The Limner’: Rachel Schwartz Sirota (MA 2008) was pro- Journal of Art Historiography. During her historical romances, and against the back- Museuwm in Tulsa, OK. The exhibition Max Harry Croswell, Newspaper Politics, and the moted to Senior Manager of Public Programs leave in the fall, she was a resident fellow Stephen M. Wagner (PhD 2004) has been ground of the French crusading tradition and Weber: Bringing Paris to New York at the Portraitist as a Public Figure in the Early at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. at the Susan and Donald Newhouse Center teaching at the Savannah College of Art and the Burgundian incarnation that succeeded Baltimore Museum of Art will remain on view Republic,” for the edited volume Shaping Design for eight years where he is Professor it. Moodey is an Assistant Professor at the until June 2013. the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation of Art History. He is currently working on a Vanderbilt University. in Early America (2012), articles on Gilbert book, Ideology in Splendor: Textile-Inspired Marina Pacini (MA 1988) received a $55,000 Stuart for American Art and on the early In Memoriam Manuscript Painting in Ottonian and Salian Jessica Murphy (PhD 2009) is currently a grant from the NEA in support of the Marisol Anglo-American actress “Miss Cheer” for John Clarke Ferguson (PhD 1999) died on September 27, Germany. He spent the winter term teaching Research Associate in The American Wing at retrospective she is organizing. The exhibi- the British journal Theatre Notebook (both 2012, in Austin, Texas. A graduate of Tulane University, John in Lacoste, France surrounded by wonderful the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She pub- tion, which has also received funding from the 2010), and a 2012 book review in Journal of subsequently worked at the Historic District Commission ancient and medieval architecture. lished essays on various artists in the catalogue Luce and Warhol foundations, will open at the the Early Republic. Dr. Rather is still at the in New Orleans and was a weekly columnist on architecture Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in March of University of Texas, Austin, where in 2010 she for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. His 1979 MA thesis Betsy Wieseman (MA 1983, BA 1979) has (MMA/Yale, 2011) and gave several public 2014. Additionally, she has been appointed to completed a three-year term as assistant chair at Tulane on the Colonial Revival Style in New Orleans is been at the National Gallery, London since lectures in connection with the accompanying the board of the Association of Art Museum for art history. still the most cited work on Thomas Sully, a key architect in 2006 as Curator of Dutch Paintings, and since exhibition. Curators. Victorian-era New Orleans. mid-2012, as Curator of Dutch and Flemish Audrey Scanlan-Teller (PhD 2005) was Paintings. In 2011, she curated the exhibition In the 1990s, John entered the graduate program at John Clarke Ferguson Louis Nelson (PhD 2001) has recently Michael W. Panhorst (PhD 1988) has curat- recently elected to the Collections and Exhi- Delaware, from which he received his PhD in 1999, writing Courtesy of Cheryl Ferguson Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence for concluded a six-year term as co-editor of ed a series of six exhibitions from the Paul R. bition Committee of the Washington County his dissertation on “Luis Barragan: A Study of Architect- the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK), Buildings and Landscapes: the journal of the Jones Collection of American Art at the Uni- Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, Mary- Client Relationships.” At Delaware he met Cheryl Caldwell, which was the museum’s most well-attended Vernacular Architecture Review. In 2011, versity of Alabama for display in 2012–2013 land. In 2011 and 2012, she served on the a fellow graduate student, and they were married in Thomas Jefferson’s Farmington. exhibition ever, with over 150,000 visitors. he published Shaping the Body Politic: Art at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in WCMFA Exhibition Committee for Valley of He later moved to Austin, to work at the Texas Historical Commission. The exhibition Vermeer and Music: The Art of and Political Formation in Early America, Montgomery, AL, where he is Curator of Art. the Shadow, a 25 month-long commemorative After graduation, John and Cheryl settled in Austin, where John lived for the rest Love and Leisure, which will unite paintings a collection of essays co-edited with Maurie He published “Devotion, Deception, and the exhibition of art and artifacts associated with of his life. He taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and Trinity University, by Vermeer and his contemporaries with mu- McInnis. In Spring 2012, he had the honor of Ladies Memorial Association, 1865–1898: The the American Civil War to mark the 150th but also worked as an independent scholar and as an appraiser of fine art and sical instruments and songbooks of the period serving as a Rothermere American Institute Mystery of the Alabama Confederate Monu- anniversaries of the 1862 Maryland Campaign photographs. He also delivered two excellent papers at Annual Meetings of the will be on view at the National Gallery during Senior Fellow at the Rothermere American ment,” in the Alabama Review and “Marshall and the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg on view un- Society of Architectural Historians. the summer of 2013. Institute, Oxford University while working on Fredericks’ Architectural Sculpture” in From til July 28th, 2013. Returning to things medi- Continuing his interest in Texas architecture, he and Cheryl contributed a chapter She is currently working on an exhibition his current book project on Architecture and Sketches to Sculptures an exhibition catalogue eval, her article “From Faux to Fabulous: The to the forthcoming first volume of the Buildings of Texas, which will be published of Rembrandt’s late works together with the Empire in Jamaica. for the Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Grandmontine Redemption of Walters 44.22,” this year as part of the Buildings of the United States series. He aided Cheryl in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; and more slowly, Saginaw Valley State University, University a re-examination of a thirteenth-century Li- preparation of her forthcoming book, Highland Park and River Oaks: The Origin of on various issues relating to the work of Peter Micheline Nilsen (PhD 2003) resumed Center, MI. Dr. Panhorst presented lectures moges enamel cross fragment in the Walters Garden Suburban Community Planning in Texas. And he contributed eight entries to Paul Rubens and on the collecting activities of teaching at Indiana University South Bend in about Civil War Battlefield Monuments at Art Museum collection, was published in the KnowLA, the online encyclopedia of Louisiana history. the 19th-century English prime minister Sir the fall 2012 after sabbatical. Her manuscript, Gettysburg and Manassas National Military Journal of the Walters Art Museum. Robert Peel. 22 23 Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage PAID University of Delaware University of Delaware Department of Art History 318 Old College Newark, DE 19716-2516

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