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Remembering Professor Emeritus Wayne Craven

Embracing Change

The Annual Newsletter of the Department of Art History Fall 2020, Volume 24 Contents Connect

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Right: Annabelle Wombacher, Jared Mar, Sierra Ratcliff and Benjamin Cahoon, Colorful Hands 1 of 3, 2018. (Photo courtesy of Unsplash.com)

Front cover: A 2013 portrait of Dr. Wayne Craven. (Photo courtesy of Kathy F. Atkinson, University of Delaware)

Back cover: Thomas Woolner, Statue of Lord Palmerston, 1876, London. (Photo courtesy of unsplash.com)

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As graduate students and alumni of the to workshop approaches that we will take with us to Department of Art History at the University of other institutions and futures. Delaware, we mourn the deaths of George Floyd, Second, a commitment to adopting anti- Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, racism and anti-oppression methods in our David McAtee, Elijah McClain, Rayshard Brooks pedagogical training, coupled with a review of the and incalculable other Black lives ended by white department curriculum. Teaching is one of the most supremacy and police brutality. We believe that Black important services graduate students provide to the Lives Matter, and we stand in solidarity with Black department and to the diverse student body of the and Indigenous persons, and People of Color (BIPOC), University of Delaware. Even for those of us who do against continued, systemic oppression within the not intend to pursue a career in academia, critical United States and around the world. pedagogy will give us professional tools to practice With systemic racism newly visible to anti-racism in other contexts. This working group will Department Members Honor Dr. Wayne Craven all Americans, and a global pandemic that only meet every month to discuss pedagogical themes By: Kelsey Underwood, Staff & Editor exacerbates racial inequities, we are compelled to in collaboration with faculty members. We hope urgently reconsider our standards, methods and faculty members will informally share how they have A celebrated scholar in the field of art history evoking the experiences of the cultural life and the practices. As scholars in the humanities, and future engaged with racism, oppression and colonialism and a founding member of the Department of Art full range of 19th-century America, whether it was teachers and stewards of cultural heritage, we are within their own research and teaching. Our goal is to History at the University of Delaware, Professor E. in the Hudson River School era or the Gilded Age, or well positioned to help forge more equitable futures. compile resources on how to revise syllabi to include Wayne Craven, Jr. (1930-2020), established American everything in between,” said alumnus Franklin Kelly, The field of art history, along with art museums and critical race and post-colonial topics and theories, art as a recognized field of study and became a deputy director and chief curator at the National many other institutional arts organizations, have introduce “non-canonical” BIPOC artists and makers distinguished authority in 19th-century American Gallery of Art, Washington. furthered anti-Blackness and white supremacy by to students and foster discussions on strategies for art. On June 10, 2020, faculty, alumni and friends At UD, Craven was found in Morris Library perpetuating (neo)colonial and racist paradigms. The teaching students about race and oppressive histories celebrated the life of Dr. Craven—a beloved colleague, almost daily, researching and enjoying a scone from graduate students in the Department of Art History in art history. More specifically, the Pedagogy Group professor and friend. the coffee counter. His work led to numerous books at the University of Delaware responded to this hopes to work toward two goals: a review of the Craven received his bachelor’s and master’s including American Art: History and Culture, Sculpture moment of national reckoning by gathering together survey curriculum, and the coordination of anti-bias degrees from Indiana University, which he attended in America, Colonial American Portraiture, Gilded to outline steps for direct action. Together, we asked training for graduate student teachers. with his wife, Lorna. They married in 1953 and, in 1957, Mansions and Marble Halls. He continued to research how we can, as individual scholars and members of Third, a commitment to support the work moved to New York City, where he attended Columbia diligently following his retirement. the University of Delaware community, better address of BIPOC scholars through programming through University and received his doctorate in art history. “Wayne set an excellent example for his systemic inequalities in our department and field. We the Graduate Student Lecture Series and other Craven began his career at the University of students—the professor who was always exploring began by developing a series of initiatives. opportunities. Delaware in the fall of 1960, when he was appointed new directions in his own research, completing one First, the formation of an Anti-Racism Reading Anyone—alumni or UD community members— the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Assistant publication with the idea for another book waiting for Group where we aim to foster ongoing dialogues who would like to participate, or wishes to learn Professor of Art History. He would go on to become his attention,” alumna Joan Marter, professor emerita between students and faculty members about how more about these initiatives, should view the faculty’s department chair, earn Excellence in Teaching awards at Rutgers University, said. to implement anti-racism and anti-colonialism in Statement of Solidarity or contact the Department of Art and receive the Francis Alison Faculty Award— “I think his scholarship is an enduring gift to our research and writing. This group meets once a History. UD’s highest faculty honor. In 2008, the University all of us,” said Wendy Bellion, Sewell C. Biggs Chair month to discuss selections that range across sub- awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in American Art History and director of the Center fields. Our goal is to provide a collaborative space degree. He also served as the coordinator of UD’s for Material Culture Studies at UD. “Many of us in to discuss our responsibilities and opportunities as Winterthur Program in Early American Culture (now American art history continue to return to Wayne’s scholars to tell just histories. A commitment to anti- the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture) publications and often, just when we think we have racism requires consistent work and self-reflection. and as the chair of the Delaware State Arts Council. a brand new research idea, we realized that Wayne This group provides a space for us as a department “Professor Craven had a particular gift for got there first.” 6 7 According to Craven’s goddaughter Kate recommendation for graduate school admission.” Craven was known for his elegant style, professor of art history at UD, said. “I always admired Lemay, who became an art historian due to his Craven advised approximately 30 dissertations no matter the occasion. In the 1980s, he received him for that. Eating lunch is something we have lost.” influence, Lorna was his sounding board and assisted and supported numerous students with their research. an unofficial “Best Dressed Professor” award from Craven’s pals Leo Lemay, Jay Halio and Damie him with research often. He took great pride in seeing his students succeed. undergraduate students. In addition to his attire, Stillman were regulars of the Lunch Bunch. Lemay “As a scholar, I’ve come to appreciate Wayne “Not only did he encourage my research with colleagues remember him for his mentorship, kindness and Halio taught in the Department of English, while very much, and one of the things that I’ve always just the right mix of prodding and praise, he was also and wit. Stillman worked alongside Craven in the Department liked about his scholarship is that he dedicated every an impeccable editor,” said Crisse Bishop Klee, whom “Wayne was a wonderful mentor to me, more of Art History. book to Lorna,” Lemay said. Craven advised for her dissertation. “If you missed the by example than anything else,” said Lawrence Nees, “It was to them that I always referred when In addition to conducting research, Craven period at the end of a footnote or the third dot of an the H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities and an art some problem came up where I needed some advice enjoyed connecting with students at the library. ellipse, he would see it.” history professor at UD. “He set a standard that I at from people who had the University of Delaware Although alumnus Arthur DiFuria never had Craven as Joyce Hill Stoner, the Rosenberg Professor least tried to follow and I think this has been true for Press at heart,” Halio said. “I will always carry with me a professor, he still received his guidance. of Material Culture at UD and a professor in the many of his colleagues and students over the years.” a great fondness and a great admiration for one of “Whenever he would spot me in the library, Department of Art Conservation, had the pleasure From his time as a professor into his retirement, the best colleagues I’ve ever had.” he would—in his dry, deadpan way—guide me to the of working with Craven as both a colleague and Craven valued lunchtime with colleagues and friends. “He was charming, funny and a tease, as well coffee and sit me down for about 10 minutes and [he] student. When writing a paper on American painter Commonly referred to as the “Lunch Bunch,” they as, of course, a great fellow student,” said Stillman, just wanted to know what I was doing and where Washington Allston during her doctoral studies, frequently dined at the Scrounge and Blue and Gold who met Craven while studying at Columbia 63 years I was in my studies,” DiFuria said. “Without those Craven provided her with a full box of his research. Club. ago. conversations, I might have not survived graduate “He was my role model,” she said. “If I ever “Eating lunch…was how Wayne kept his finger “One of my favorite memories from those school.” became a tenured professor, I wanted to dress on the pulse of the University and really had an impact years came in 1958, when he and Carl Barnes, another Today, DiFuria teaches and serves as the chair impeccably and be kind to everyone.” in terms of what was going on,” Perry Chapman, a Ph.D. student, proceeded to trick two new M.A. of art history at the Savannah College of Art and students by asking them about a made-up American Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia. artist, who they said might turn up on the screening Craven was devoted to supporting his exam required for all new M.A. students,” he said. “I students both academically and emotionally during will remember him most for his humor, wit and sly their time at UD and beyond. His regularly open office smile—and the pleasure of sharing a career with him.” door welcomed current students, while holiday cards, Professor Craven helped establish the emails and phone calls united him with alumni. Department of Art History as a top institution to “I enjoyed his class and his teaching, and I study American art, a position it still holds today, especially enjoyed sitting around with him talking over 50 years later. He molded multiple generations about art and the world, and the art world,” said of prominent scholars and curators, and leaves an alumna Jody Abzug, who, like many students, academic legacy for art historians to come. The attended the University to study with Craven. Department of Art History is forever grateful for Dr. Following her first year, Abzug had to take a Craven’s contributions to the field of art history and leave of absence from her studies. the department, and will honor him by emulating “I really didn’t think I was going to return, until I his hunger for knowledge, passion for teaching and got a phone call from Dr. Craven,” she said. “Dr. Craven’s dedication to helping others. impact on my academic life was immense and I will always be grateful for his time and attention.” Arthur McLaughlin first met Craven when he took one of his introductory courses in 1968. Although Page 7: Professor Emeritus Wayne Craven and Susan Rather with the 2019-20 GSLS Committee. (L-R) Genevieve Westerby, Christine Bachman, he initially pursued a different career, McLaughlin Meghan Angelos, Jordan Hillman, Thomas Busciglio-Ritter, Wayne Craven, eventually returned to art history because of Craven. Susan Rather, Michael Hartman, Victoria Sunnergren, Natalie Giguere and “I went on to a different career, but I came Erin Hein. (Photo by Kelsey Underwood) back a few years ago to the over-60 program with Page 8 (Top): Professor Craven and his wife Lorna. (Photo courtesy his encouragement, because we stayed in touch, of the Department of Art History) even though I was in a completely different field,” Page 8 (Bottom): Wayne Craven and Wendy Bellion share a laugh at the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection in Morris Library during a 2010 said McLaughlin, who now teaches art history at the interview. (Photo by George Freeman) Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Delaware in Lewes/Ocean View. “It was a moment Page 9: Professor Craven with a student outside of Delaware Stadium on graduation day. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Art History) of pride in my life when he wrote me a letter of 8 9 “Creating the labels for this project proved to “Museum internships offer invaluable training for be a steep learning curve that challenged me to distill many of our students, enabling majors to expand a large dataset into small, impactful and informative their education beyond the classroom and enabling blocks of information,” Hartman said. “In my own graduate students to develop curatorial practice, career as a curator, I hope to give similar attention to leadership skills and professional networks. UD’s prints, paintings, drawings and decorative arts objects partnership with the Biggs also helps to strengthen in order to develop collections-based narratives that the presence of the arts and culture statewide.” are not only diverse, but more inclusive of the histories Information about 2021 summer internships at they can speak to.” the Biggs Museum of American Art will be available in Jane Allen, an art history senior, worked November for interested UD majors in art history and virtually alongside Kristen Matulewicz, curator of art conservation. community and academic programs, to develop curricula for children’s programs. She first planned a two-day children’s winter camp to replace canceled Page 10: The Biggs Museum of American Art. (Photo courtesy of Biggs Museum of American Art) summer camp programs. Her final report included Top: Michael Hartman studies Native American, African and European- Students Make History at the Biggs Museum guidelines for a theme, tours and activities for children descended craftspeople during the 43rd Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) Summer Institute in 2019. (Photo courtesy of By: Kelsey Underwood, Staff & Editor of various ages. Allen then developed a Halloween- Michael Hartman) inspired program, where children tour the museum Left: Olivia Reiff works from her North Carolina home. (Photo courtesy of When philanthropy, expertise and collaboration but was also able to apply what I have learned as with flashlights to help solve the mystery of a “missing” Olivia Reiff) converge, UD students and arts organizations win. an art conservation student,” she said. “Preventative artwork. Bottom: Jane Allen. (Photo courtesy of Jane Allen) This summer, three students from the Department conservation has a strong focus on environmental “I found that one of the most useful things about of Art History and Department of Art Conservation control and regulation.” these experiences was the balance of independence completed the first fully-funded summer internships During her research, Reiff contacted numerous and guidance I was given by Kristen,” Allen said. “The at the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, collection managers and curators at institutions independence challenged me to creatively come Delaware. Made possible by the generous support along the East Coast, many of whom shared similar up with ideas and solutions, and the feedback and of The Choptank Foundation, a new three-year pilot projects and expertise. Each week, she spoke with discussions I had with Kristen encouraged my projects program was created to support student internship Grover about her progress, often discussing school to grow and evolve.” experiences. This new program allowed each of and life as well. In addition to children’s the students to gain experience in one of three “The Biggs Museum staff are wonderful and program development, Allen areas—education, collections management and knowledgeable people and I am fortunate to have wrote scripts for exhibition curation—expanding their training and professional had the opportunity to work with them,” she said. videos, contacted guests development beyond the classroom. Michael Hartman, a doctoral student in art about upcoming events “I found this to be very valuable not only history, also worked virtually in collaboration with and evaluated future because it was an internship in a summer where so Grover, researching and cataloging 220 cabinet- program curricula based on many others were cancelled or because I am, in fact, makers and silversmiths active in Delaware prior to Delaware state education interested in collections management, but because it 1830. He found that 22 percent of the craftspeople standards. was a very real internship,” said Olivia Reiff, an art were enslaved and mostly unidentified. Using his “It was most conservation senior who worked virtually from her research, Hartman assisted Grover with reinterpreting meaningful to me to home in North Carolina due to the COVID-19 pandemic. the museum’s Janvier Gallery of Delaware Furniture. have the opportunity to “I worked on a current issue at the Biggs and my “Featuring furniture and decorative arts create programs that would report of recommendations are being implemented.” objects made in Delaware between 1770 and 1830, directly benefit the museum’s Under the supervision of curator Ryan the Janvier Gallery traditionally focused on individual community, and that the work I did Grover and registrar David Clapp, Reiff developed a white makers and attributed objects on display to a would have a life beyond my summer renovation plan for an office space, which in the near single white craftsperson,” Hartman said. at the museum,” she said. future will be repurposed for collections storage. Her Hartman updated museum labels, often called “This is the kind of interinstitutional partnership final report included guidelines for housing artwork tombstones, to acknowledge both free and enslaved at which UD excels and we are grateful to The in the room, addressing the risks of temperature, craftspeople, known and unknown, who contributed Choptank Foundation for making these student lighting, water, fire and general security, among other to the craftwork. For example, a tombstone originally experiences possible,” said Professor Wendy Bellion, issues. attributing an object to John Janvier now reads “The Sewell C. Biggs Chair in American Art History and “I learned a lot of new things from this project, Workshop of John Janvier.” director of the Center for Material Culture Studies. 10 11 Graduate Student Lecture Series Faculty News 2019-2020 Domínguez Torres Completes Timely Fellowship By: Mónica Domínguez Torres, Professor

Professor Mónica Domínguez Torres had a very productive year, despite some unforeseen disruptions. She finished writing her second book, tentatively titled Pearls for the Crown: European Courtly Art and the Rise of the Atlantic Pearl Trade, 1498-1720, during a full-year sabbatical leave. For this she secured a very prestigious fellowship at the Getty Research Institute Jennifer Van Horn in Los Angeles, where she was part of a cohort of Assistant Professor of Art History & History important scholars working on issues of art and University of Delaware ecology. ‘Stealing a Glance’: Enslaved Viewers and “It was very timely to start discussing topics Iconoclasts in the Plantation South related to art and ecology at the Getty,” Domínguez Torres said. “Shortly before, a sudden and destructive wildfire—dubbed ‘the Getty fire’ because of its proximity to the Getty Center—forced a week-long closure of the iconic L.A. site, as well as a quick evacuation of all the fellows from the Getty Scholar Professor Domínguez Torres examines Ulisse Aldrovandi’s book about Housing complex, and we ourselves experienced the mollusks and all sort of marine creatures at the Special Collections Susan Rather (continued on next page) Reading Room. (Photo courtesy of Mónica Domínguez Torres) Wayne Craven Lecture Professor, Department of Art and Art History University of Texas, Austin Memento: Samuel F.B. Morse’s First Art Teacher and the Resonance of Miniature Painting New Faculty

An assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies for the past two years, Tiffany E. Barber joins the Department of Art History as a joint faculty member. She is a scholar, curator and critic of 20th- and 21st-century visual art, new media and performance. Her work focuses on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. Her writing appears in Rhizomes, InVisible Culture, TOPIA, Black Camera, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro ASAP/Journal, Dance Research Journal, Afterimage and various anthologies, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Track Ph.D. Lecture exhibition catalogs and online publications, including Afrofuturism 2.0: The Associate Director for Conservation and Research Rise of Astro-Blackness, Prospect.3: Notes for Now, Suzanne Jackson: Five Whitney Museum of American Art Decades and the Black One Shot series. She has curated physical and virtual Beyond the Image: Materiality and Meaning exhibitions for the Delaware Art Museum and the Black Speculative Arts Movement. From 2016 to 2018, she was a predoctoral residential research fellow at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African- American and African Studies. During the 2021-22 academic year, Barber

Top left: Peter Candid, Standing Man with a Sword (Alexander the Great), will complete her first book manuscript as a postdoctoral fellow at the c. 1601. (Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. 12 13 fear and uncertainty of being displaced from our temporary homes.” These events were further magnified in March by the COVID-19 outbreak in Los Faculty Notes Angeles that forced the center’s closure again, this time for several months, and Professor Domínguez Torres’s early return to In a year that has brought unexpected and a roundtable about the history of New York City her home in Delaware. challenges for all, Professor Wendy Bellion has never monuments for the Gotham Center. As the Director “All these experiences certainly been more grateful for the Department of Art History’s of the Center for Material Culture Studies, Professor shaped and enriched our discussions about strong community of colleagues, students and alumni. Bellion is busy developing programs and projects the impact that climate change, disaster When the pandemic disrupted campus life in spring to advance interdisciplinary scholarship, and as the management and globalization have 2020, faculty quickly revived their informal Delaware coordinator for a new funded internship program in on artistic production, which I hope will Americanist Writing Group—DAWGs—to provide partnership with The Choptank Foundation and Biggs materialize in a volume the Getty is planning The winter cohort of Getty Scholars at the Getty Research Institute. (Photo courtesy of a creative virtual space for faculty and graduate Museum of American Art, she’s actively working to to publish next year,” Domínguez Torres said. Mónica Domínguez Torres) students to continue sharing and advancing their expand professional development opportunities for As a scholar in residence at the Getty, of acquiring Boulton’s personal archives and is research. Two advisees—Margarita Karasoulas and UD students in art history and art conservation. They Domínguez Torres was also invited to participate in organizing an exhibition and publication using those Spencer Wigmore—successfully defended their welcome your support for this initiative! Please email a two-day seminar to prepare an exhibition about important materials.” she said. “It was a terrific dissertations and continued their excellent work as [email protected] to learn more. Alfredo Boulton at the Getty in 2022. Boulton was a experience to share ideas with GRI curator Idurre curators for, respectively, the Brooklyn Museum and pioneer in the field of colonial art in Venezuela, and Alonso and a group of Latin American colleagues Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Professor Professor Perry Chapman taught her last actually the broker who initiated in the 1950s the conversant with Boulton’s work as an artist and a Bellion continues to conduct research (online, course for the department in spring 2020. It was ARTH scientific study of Cubagua Island, the first pearling historian. It will be an incredible honor to contribute for now!) for her new book project on the visual 154, “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the center of the Caribbean, which plays an important role an essay for the exhibition catalog featuring the work culture of theater in the early United States (Pictures Present,” which was a success as a suddenly-online in Professor Domínguez Torres’s current scholarship. of a Venezuelan scholar who was so influential in my Onstage) and to develop a co-edited volume of course, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of five “The Getty Research Institute is in the process own development as an art historian.” essays about 18th-century material culture with UD wonderful TAs: Meghan Angelos, Christine Bachman, alumna Dr. Kristel Smentek (Things Change). She has Zoë Colón, Natalie Giguere and Gabby Johnson. also contributed essays for the Minneapolis Institute Before that, she made a brief editorial board meeting Exhibition Honors Artist David Driskell of Art’s forthcoming catalogue, Supernatural America, and research trip to the Netherlands. Traveling now By: Julie L. McGee, Professor seems a distant memory, and a distant hope, in these times of Curated by Julie L. McGee in collaboration with COVID-19. the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and the High In 2019-20, Chapman Museum of Art in Atlanta, the exhibition David Driskell: (with Thijs Weststeijn and Dulcia Icons of Nature and History and its accompanying Myers) published an edited catalogue survey seven decades of David Driskell’s volume, Connoisseurship and the painterly practice from the 1950s forward. Born in Knowledge of Art / Kennerschap en Eatonton, Georgia, David C. Driskell (1931-2020) is kunst (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch equally well-known as a curator, art historian and Jaarboek 69), for which she co- educator, and his career as both artist and scholar have wrote (with Thijs Weststeijn) created a durable public record of the long history of “Connoisseurship as knowledge. An art made by Black Americans. Dates include: introduction.” She also completed two articles: “Making as Thinking High Museum of Art, Atlanta in the Dutch Painter’s Studio,” February 6–May 9, 2021 forthcoming in Spaces of Making and

David Driskell stands next to one of his works, “Shaker Chair and Quilt,” Thinking: Environments of Creative Portland Museum of Art, Maine 1988, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. (Photo by Julie L. McGee) Labor in the Early Modern Period, June 19–September 12, 2021 ed. Colin Murray, Sophie Pitman and Tianna Uchacz, New York: Bard Professor Bellion catches up with Professors Matthew Baigell and Carla Yanni after delivering the The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Mitnick Jacobs Distinguished Lecture at Rutgers in November 2019. (Photo courtesy of Wendy Graduate Center (Cultural Histories October 16, 2021–January 9, 2022 Bellion) of the Material World series), 2020; 14 15 and “Rembrandt: Retour aux Origins,” for Aging & Arts: (March 2020), and chaired the panel “Artifice and of documentary filmmaker Joseph Louw’s terrible Claiming Space: The Santa Fe Indian School Posters L’Art aux risques de l’âge, ed. Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen, Agency” of the colloquium “Languages of Ecology: photographs of the assassination of Martin Luther on Paul Coze’s Stage in Paris, 1935,” in a special issue trans. Turner Edwards and Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen, Ancient and Early Modern Approaches to Nature,” King, Jr., at the symposium “Behind the Iconic Images of the online journal, Transatlantica: Revue d’Études Paris: CNRS Éditions, forthcoming 2020. organized at the Getty Research Institute (May in Life Magazine” at the Princeton University Art Américaines, devoted to “Dialoguing the American Chapman’s retirement date is August 2021. 2020). Since winter 2019, Domínguez Torres has also Museum. In April, he presented a guest lecture on West in France” in 2019. A Chinese translation of her She is now on sabbatical, easing into her new life. Her worked as the art subject editor for The Routledge photojournalism and the coronavirus for the course article, “Indigenous Artists Against the Anthropocene,” plans for the future include pursuing her research and Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World, a new digital “Getting the Pictures: Photojournalism in the USA originally published in Art Journal in 2017, appeared in writing, and assuming the position of editor-in-chief platform that will offer students and scholars a and Russia,” led by Katherine Bussard and Katherine a special issue of the Journal of the National Academy of Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, the open- new way to navigate societies of the “Renaissance” Reischl, also at Princeton. Hill is presently having a of Art devoted to “Ecological Art Practices” in 2019. access online journal of Historians of Netherlandish conceived broadly temporally (ca. 1300-1700) and blast teaching a course on “The Art of the Vote,” which Professor Horton was named the Lunder Institute for Art, which is taking a leading role as a platform for geographically (the Americas to eastern Europe and considers the dynamics of American art and politics American Art Distinguished Scholar for 2020-21 and digital art history projects. Asia and beyond). through the lens of Americans’ never-ending fight for will lead a group of research fellows to pursue original the franchise. He looks forward to teaching a pair of scholarship on artistic modernisms of the Southwest In addition to her prestigious fellowship at the Professor Jason Hill continues to develop his courses on alignment of photography, evidence and at Colby College in Maine and Taos, New Mexico. Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (see article on new book project, studying a key but overlooked truth in the spring of 2021. page 13), Professor Mónica Domínguez Torres was dimension of the visual culture of crime and policing In 2019-20, Professor Lawrence Nees was also granted spring fellowships at the Bard Graduate in the United States. The book, deeply indebted to the Professor Jessica L. Horton received two major on research leave and looked forward to returning Center (BGC) in New York City, the Center for Spain pioneering work on policing and media undertaken fellowships which allowed her to work full-time on her to full-time teaching in fall 2020. During his leave, in America at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, decades ago by Stuart Hall, and provisionally entitled second book, Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American he finished final revisions on his book Frankish Massachusetts, and the Madrid Institute for Advanced Police Work, centers the technology of police radio Art and Reciprocity, 1953-1973, during the 2019-20 Manuscripts 7th-10th Centuries, to appear in the Study during her sabbatical year. She declined the as a key component in a singularly determinant academic year. She spent the fall term in residence at series Manuscripts Illuminated in France, published by latter opportunities to join the Bard’s spring cohort, American image-making machinery. In August 2020, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Harvey Miller Ltd. and Brepols. This series is a detailed but unfortunately the COVID-19 pandemic forced Hill presented part of this research, “Looking at Police Before the pandemic interrupted her research travel catalogue of 100 manuscripts, with introductory the cancellation of her residence at the BGC. The Radio with Frederick Wiseman,” on Wiseman’s film in the spring, Horton was supported by a Creative essay, publication of which was promised for 2020, pandemic also compelled her to postpone a research Law and Order, as a guest of the seminar “Atlas Fever,” Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Book although the recent death of the distinguished trip to Spain and Italy to finalize archival research led by W.J.T. Mitchell and Ori Levin at the University of Grant to visit collections and conduct oral histories publisher may cause a delay. Nees completed the needed for her upcoming book until summer 2021. Southern California. His essay “An Exact Instant in the related to an exchange between Mapuche and Diné revision of a book manuscript, Illuminating the Word: For this trip, she has secured the support of a 10- History of the Modern,” on curator Ed Steichen’s 1949 (Navajo) artists in 1968. Professor Horton is grateful to On the Beginnings of Medieval Book Decoration, Year Anniversary Faculty Grant from the University MoMA exhibition on the history of news photography the Center for Material Culture Studies for supporting which has been submitted to a publisher and is going of Delaware’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Research and the appearance of crime reporting within it, the publication of her essay, “Performing Paint, out to readers now. Since the last issue of Insight, he Center, as well as a National Endowment for the appeared in Modern in the Making: MoMA and the published no articles, although three were delayed Humanities Summer Stipend grant. Modern Experiment, co-edited by Sandra Zalman and are now in press and scheduled to appear in During this unprecedented year, Professor and Austin Porter (Bloomsbury, 2020). His essay “On 2020 or (with so many problems delaying everything Domínguez Torres saw the publication of her essay Deadline: LIFE as a Weekly News Magazine,” appeared we do) in early 2021: “Antique and faux-Antique in “Mastery, Artifice, and the Natural Order: A Jewel in The Power of LIFE: LIFE Magazine and American Carolingian Manuscripts,” to appear in Deirdre Carter, from the Early Modern Pearl Industry” in The Oxford Photography, 1936–1972, co-edited by Kristen Gresh Elina Gertsman and Karlyn Griffith, eds.,Tributes to Handbook of History and Material Cultures Studies, and Katherine Bussard (Princeton, 2020). Richard K. Emmerson. Crossing Medieval Disciplines edited by Ivan Gaskell and Sarah A. Carter. The essay He is presently writing two new commissioned (London: Harvey Miller and Turnhout: Brepols, 2020); “Pearls for the King: Philip II and the New World Pearl essays. One, “This is not a Magazine,” on some of “The European Context of Manuscript Illumination Industry,” is also forthcoming in the volume Picture the pictorial considerations that distinguish daily in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, 600–900,” to appear Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective, newspapers from weekly and monthly magazines, is in Claire Breay and Joanna Story, eds., Manuscripts edited by Karl Kusserow from the Princeton University slated to appear next year in the volume Print Matters: in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Dublin: Four Courts Art Museum. During the past year, she presented the Photography in Print, co-edited by Andrés Mario Press, 2020); “A Copper-Alloy Plate with Architectural papers “Imperial Gems: The Art, Ecology and Politics Zervigón and Antonella Pelizzari (Getty Research Imagery in Berlin . . . and Jerusalem?” in Carole of Pearls in Habsburg Spain” at the Getty Research Institute, 2021). Another, an essay on Mary Ellen Mark’s Hillenbrand and Robert Hillenbrand, eds., The Making Institute (November 2019), “Traders, Cannibals and photographs of promgoers, should appear next year of Islamic Art [Festschrift in Honor of Sheila Blair and Slaves: Early Modern Images of Native Americans in in the catalogue for an exhibition of Mark’s work at Jonathan M. Bloom], Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art the Atlantic Pearl Industry,” at the Indigenous Material the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, curated by (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Mapuche weaver Juanita Becerra inside her workshop in Curarrehue, and Visual Culture in the Americas (IMVCA) working Brian Wallis. Chile in February 2020. (Photo by Jessica L. Horton) Nees had planned to present lectures at two group of the University of California, Los Angeles In September 2020, Hill offered a discussion conferences during the past year, but both were 16 17 postponed. During the coming of which the CCA posted as Facebook and Instagram Ten for fall 2020 by Publishers Weekly. It was featured year, he has commitments for four posts on July 6, 2020. Okoye was also part of a specially on Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes podcast in mid- conference lectures: Conference convened public roundtable and event, where he September. Her early study of Goya’s paintings on the Gellone Sacramentary, at joined Huda Tayob (University of Johannesburg), within their political context, Goya in the Twilight of the Israel Institute for Advanced Itohan Osayimwese (Brown University), Anooradha Enlightenment (1992) is now available on the Yale Study, February 20-22, 2021; Siddiqi (Barnard College) and Christina Sharpe (York University Press Art and Architecture portal. Settimana di Studio sull’Alto University) in a discussion framed as “Centring Africa? Medioevo, “I Franchi,” Centro The Spaces of Pan-African Agency,” which engaged Professor Jennifer Van Horn continues work Italiano per Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, the question “How or why should scholars invest in on her second book, now titled Portraits of Resistance: Spoleto, April 8-14, 2021; “What is the cultural politics of space undertake practices that Activating Art During Slavery, under contract with Yale Frankish about Merovingian Art?”; centre Africa?” University Press. She has presented her scholarship at ’Merovingian’ or ‘Carolingian’? Spring 2020 of course turned into a difficult several venues (now virtually): Columbia, University of Court or Provincial? The Gellone semester for Professor Okoye as for everyone else. Illinois, Tulane, Massachusetts Historical Society and Sacramentary and the Problem of However, in April, Okoye delivered a lecture to a the White House Historical Society. Together with Categorizing Frankish Illuminated graduate history of architecture seminar at the Professor Tiffany Barber she is co-leading a working Manuscripts,” Colloquium in honor University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South group through the Center for Material Culture Studies of Charles T. Little, Columbia Africa, via Zoom, on his developing theory of African entitled “Blackness and Publicness.” University, April 16, 2021; “All that Masquerade as spatial and political praxis. Glitters is not Gold: ’Purple’ and Okoye enjoyed the company of Nikki Greene, UD Art History alumna and assistant professor of art ‘Gold’ in Carolingian Manuscript at Wellesley College, at the opening reception of Home’s Horizons. (Photo courtesy of Nikki Greene) Professor Lauren Hackworth Petersen has Illumination,” First Millennium Network Conference, In mid-November, Okoye traveled to London to been appointed associate dean for the humanities Washington, D.C.: “Perspectives on the Art of the First deliver an invited talk, titled “Emergent Evacuations?: in the College of Arts and Sciences at UD. Despite Millennium” (postponed to date uncertain). African Women’s Corporate Bodies and Art Historical the heavy administrative demands, this past year Professor Nees will retire from teaching at the Insight,” at the Courtauld Institute of Art. The talk witnessed the publication of two articles and a book end of the fall term in 2021. He looks forward to three was part of the Courtauld’s Frank Davis Memorial review, with other projects underway. Her essay, more semesters at the University of Delaware, where Lecture series that featured three other renowned “People and Gods in the Necropoleis of Pompeii: Isis he has taught since 1978. It has been a privilege to art historians. The series was inaugurating the in the Last Decade,” was published in Reflections: do so. He looks forward to teaching the introductory Courtauld’s then imminent hiring of new faculty in Harbour City Deathscapes in Roman Italy and art history course this year, its online avatar being the area of modern and contemporary African art, Beyond, eds. Niels Bargfeldt and Jane Hjarl Petersen, unexpectedly exciting, and expects to teach the same part of their Mellon-funded initiative. Shortly after Edizioni Quasar (Analecta Romani Instituti Danici – course again in 2021. His last seminar will be devoted his return, Okoye traveled to Boston, where he gave Supplementa 53). With co-author Sandra Joshel, she to Charlemagne in spring 2021. He expects to continue a paper, “Africa’s First Feminist?: Positioning Adelina penned the chapter, “Seeing Slaves at Villa A,” in Villa to advise his current doctoral students and, he hopes, Wari and Her Property,” at the annual conference of A (“of Poppaea”) at Torre Annunziata, Italy. Vol. 2: The to continue to be engaged in scholarly research. the African Studies Association, and as part of the Decorations: Painting, Stucco, Pavements, Sculptures, panel Architectural Histories of Entanglement. eds. John R. Clarke and Nayla K. Muntasser (ACLS Last September, Professor Ikem Stanley Okoye Okoye was the recipient of a two-year Center for Humanities E-book, 2019). She also presented her work was invited to participate in a series of events held for Canadian Architecture/Mellon research grant for his on Roman slavery with a talk, “Representing Slavery: the opening of the art exhibition Home’s Horizons at Where was Modernism project. This followed an earlier Voices, Images, and Artefacts,” for the conference, the Davis Museum, Wellesley College. The show was short term CCA/Mellon grant that had concluded “A Deep History of Slavery: Antiquity and Modernity a solo exhibition of the work of contemporary artist soon after its Addis Ababa workshop—a second in Dialogue,” held at the Gilder Lehrman Center for Professor Jennifer Van Horn delivers “‘Stealing a Glance’: Enslaved Viewers Fatimah Tuggar and also featured the first iteration and final selection stage of the “Centring Africa” the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale and Iconoclasts in the Plantation South” as part of the annual Graduate Student Lecture Series in September 2019. (Photo by Kelsey Underwood) of Tuggar’s installation called Deep Blue Wells. He initiative’s competitive granting process. In relation University last year. gave a roundtable statement on Tuggar’s work and to this award, Okoye spent a few days in Montreal contemporaneity more broadly, before engaging the in early December, attending workshops with seven Professor Janis Tomlinson’s biography Goya: artist, the exhibition’s curator Amanda Gilvin (Sonja other co-recipients of the grant—all affiliated with A Portrait of the Artist was published on Sept. 15, 2020 Novak Koerner ‘51 Senior Curator of Collections at European or African universities. Okoye was the only by Princeton University Press. The culmination of Wellesley) and the audience in a conversation about North America-based scholar who received the her decades-long study of the artist, the book was Tuggar’s work, contemporary art, Hausa history, award. During the workshop, Okoye presented the recognized as “a top notch biography” in a coveted indigo dye pit traditions and architecture among paper “Fugitive Futurities: Early Twentieth Century starred Kirkus Review (May 15, 2020), and included other things. Architecture of Enugwu-Ukwu and Nimo,” a version among the Art, Architecture and Photography Top 18 19 Undergraduate News

Junior Miriam-Helene Rudd took second place in the 2019 Seth Trotter Book Collecting Contest for her collection of over 350 20th-century mystery novels featuring female leads, such as Nancy Drew. An art conservation and art history double major, Rudd applies her skills as a student assistant in Morris Library, where she preserves and restores books. She continues to search for new additions to her collection, such as foreign editions. (Photo courtesy of UDaily)

Professor Sandy Isenstadt, department chair, and Vimalin Rujivacharakul, director of undergraduate studies, with undergraduate students at the “Lunch with the Chair” event in October 2019. (Photo by Kelsey Underwood)

During the spring 2020 semester, undergraduate students got creative at home when Professor Gallant tasked her medieval art class Degrees Awarded | 2020 with reconstructing artworks out of household items. Julia Podest recreated a 16th-19th century military flail from the Metropolitan Bachelor of Arts Minor Museum of Art collection out of hair ties and USB power adapters. Alexandra Taylor Ashman Sierra Tyler Bacon (Photo courtesy of Julia Podest) Catherine Eleanor Canning Martha Rose Allen Echols Margaret W. Elkins Sara Leonowitz Destiny Howell-Conkey Corey Michael Lynch Lauren Lee Emily Katherine McCavera Arielle Elizabeth Mobley Casey Axelia Orledge Adrianna Nelson Elizabeth Ann Page Jason Sadel Amelia Ritter Rachel Townsend Kiley Tucker Ashley May Ware During the spring 2020 semester, Jane Allen studied abroad at John Jasmin Nicole Waye Cabot University in Rome, Italy. Although her trip was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she was able to experience the culture of Rome with new friends. Allen visited iconic art and architecture Departmental Awards | 2020 that she studied at UD, including the Vatican and Pantheon. To learn more about her study abroad experience, visit the @UDArtHistory Instagram account and select the “Takeovers” highlight icon. Trudy H. Vinson Memorial Scholarship Art History Faculty Award for Academic Excellence (Photo courtesy of Jane Allen) Awarded to an outstanding junior in the department Awarded to an outstanding senior in the department Bianca Thiruchittampalam Catherine Eleanor Canning

20 21 artist would accumulate so much debt in Chicago that he exchanged paintings for land and later on Graduate News would even give the land away so that his patron Thomas Barbour Bryan would “buy” his debt. Inside Look: Letters of George Peter Alexander Healy Healy’s letters have given By Alba Campo Rosillo, Ph.D. student me deeper knowledge into the business of portraiture and One of the virtues of my dissertation project London and obtained his materials from the art dealer American art making in the 19th is the wealth of extant archival material from the Robert Davy at 83 Newman St. Oxford St. By 1843, century. My goal is to publish them artist I am writing about. With the title “Artistry and Healy was active in Paris and using “David’s famous as an edited volume, and I am open Industry: The Portraiture of George Peter Alexander [color] tubes,” which Healy shipped to his friend and for suggestions concerning formats Healy (1830-1871),” I am writing a monograph that fellow U.S. artist Charles Bird King. When he received and partners of the endeavor. explores Healy’s portrait production both in receiving a commission to copy the portrait collections from In the letter I am sharing here, inspiration and in shaping industrial capitalist culture. British Royal Palaces, Healy was given a room at St. Healy instructs his addressee—Mr. As I have traveled extensively throughout the U.S. James Palace where he and his assistants painted Dana—on how to remove two old visiting archival repositories, where I have discovered the copies; later in his life his brother Thomas Cantwell portraits from their frames, with more than 140 letters that the artist both wrote and would join him in painting tours to assist him in the idea that the artist would find received between February 1838 and April 1892, I’ve finishing the portraits. the paintings ready to make quick gained significant insight into his life and work thanks Second, Healy’s logistics and public relations. retouches. The secret on how to to the artist’s revelations. The artist joined the Royal Academy of Art in London remove the frames? Soap and First, Healy often mentioned his painting as a student thanks to British Royal Academician water! materials, techniques and logistics. Born in Boston David Wilkie’s referral. In his letters, Healy would in 1813, Healy trained in the city and took up local often mention the portraits he was painting at the methods, like using a compass to measure the face moment and the positive feedback that people of his sitters. In 1840, Healy had spent some time in would give him for the addressee’s admiration. He also sent regular invitations to his contacts to visit him at his studio to see his latest works. I have been impressed to see the good relations Healy kept with fellow artists, with Right: George Peter Alexander Healy to Richard whom he corresponded—like Hiram Henry Dana Jr., January 7, 1885, in Collected Powers, Thomas Couture—and Material, “Miscellaneous Famous People,” in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881- in whose studios he would paint 1950) Papers, 1774-1972 (bulk dates 1850-1950) when he traveled and worked in (LONG 17314), Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site. portrait commissions. Last, Healy had a network of “agents” spread across multiple cities to help him in his business, with James S. Earle, from the “Looking Glass” shop Degrees Awarded | 2020 Earle & Son, at 816 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. Doctorate in Art History Master of Arts for Museum Professionals Finally, as I read through Margarita Karasoulas Vivien Lafcadia Barnett Healy’s letters I recognized another Sarah M. Leonard persistent theme: Healy’s ever- Colin G. Nelson-Dusek Master of Arts in Art History present worries about debt. In Galina Kathleen Olmsted Adam Grimes London, his source of credit would Emily Rachel Shartrand be a tailor with whom Healy also Spencer W. Wigmore Alba Campo Rosillo next to George Peter Alexander Healy’s Self-Portrait, 1870s, at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. (Photo courtesy of Alba Campo Rosillo) shared confidences. Later on, the 22 23 of Print Scholars. In February 2020, Canter began to European Royalty: George P. A. Healy,” at the Chicago work on her dissertation, “The Singular Impression: Union League, and participated at the Smithsonian Monotype in Nineteenth-Century France.” During the American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery 2020 Graduate Notes 2020-21 academic year, she will be the graduate Fellows’ Lectures with “Portraiture and Risk in G.P.A. research assistant for the University of Delaware Healy’s Chicago Period (1855-1867).” Special Collections and Museums. During the 2019–20 academic year, Meghan be Tavernier’s Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse This year, Zoë Colón has had an exciting, and Angelos was a committee member of the Graduate at Clear Lake, California (1878), acquired by the Met Alba Campo Rosillo spent the summer of 2019 yet strangely paused, transition from doctoral student Student Lecture Series and received an Outstanding in 2016. The exhibition will bring together around 45 doing the Grand Tour in Europe with a Terra Foundation to candidate. In February and May 2020, Colón Graduate Student Achievement Award from the works—paintings, watercolors, prints, photographs, for American Art Grant, following the footsteps of the passed her qualifying exams while handling the Department of Art History. In February 2020, her Pomo baskets and regalia—to examine the encounter artist about whom she is writing her dissertation: transition to online learning as a teaching assistant. essay, “George Silk, ‘Perfect Ten Point Landing’ (1962),” of Tavernier with the Elem Pomo, and intersections “Artistry and Industry: The Portraiture of George In this grant cycle, she was awarded several research was published in LIFE Magazine and the Power between Western-style landscape painting and Peter Alexander Healy (1830-1871).” In September, she travel fellowships. From the Center for Advanced of Photography. In May, she began serving as the Native material culture. Busciglio-Ritter will continue started her year-long residential research fellowship Study in the Visual Arts, Colón was awarded the Ailsa department’s graduate student liaison. During the assisting with the show during the fall of 2020. at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of summer, she was a research assistant for the Ad where she researched the intersections of portraiture, American Art to Travel Abroad. She will use this award Reinhardt Foundation and participated in the 2020 industry and politics in mid-19th-century American art. to study Tibetan art in China and Tibet. From the CCL/Mellon Seminar in Curatorial Practice’s online During her residency, Campo Rosillo participated in Graduate College of the University of Delaware, she program. the PORTAL Gallery Talk, where she discussed George was awarded the Unidel Louise Roselle Collections- Peter Alexander Healy’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln Based Research Travel Award. She will use this award at the Presidential Gallery with an audience in English to travel to Seattle, Washington and British Columbia, on Feb. 27, 2020, and in Spanish on Feb. 29, 2020. where she will study collections of Northwest Coast In addition, she continued assisting curator Marie- Native artworks and material culture for a dissertation Stéphanie Delamaire for the forthcoming exhibition chapter on Indigenous graphic arts and human- at the Winterthur Museum entitled Caribbean Bound: salmon relations. From the Terra Foundation, she was Painters at Sea in the Age of Sail, on painting in the awarded the International Research Travel Grant for 18th-century Caribbean area. Campo Rosillo gave U.S.-based Scholars. She will use this grant to visit the guest lecture “Painter of American Heroes & collections and archives related to Inuit and Cold War military-environmental history in southern Canada. After completing this background research, Colón will travel to Nunavut, where she will visit Kinngait Studios (the first and largest Inuit art co-operative in the world) and interview Inuit artists. With travel restrictions forcing these research trips to be postponed, she Thomas Busciglio-Ritter stands in front of Jules Tavernier’s Dance in a spent summer 2020 as a fellow of the Delaware Subterranean Roundhouse (1878), on display in room 760 of the American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Photo courtesy of Thomas Public Humanities Institute at the Center for Material Busciglio-Ritter) Culture Studies. The Institute sponsors fellows for the summer and gives them training to become public- In summer 2019, Danielle Canter worked as facing scholars through a workshop, this year held Meghan Angelos holds up her essay, “George Silk, ‘Perfect Ten Point Landing’ (1962),” published in LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography. the Getty graduate fellow in Prints and Drawings at online. Meanwhile, Colón is also working on an article (Photo courtesy of Meghan Angelos) the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). At the CMA she on contemporary Shinnecock artist Courtney Leonard conducted research for a forthcoming exhibition and and whales as a medium, as well as her dissertation In spring 2020, third-year CTPhD student catalogue of 19th-century French drawings. During proposal. Additionally, she is editing a chapter on Inuit Thomas Busciglio-Ritter started interning at the the 2019-20 academic year, Canter was the graduate drawings and caribou relations that will appear in an Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He assistant in the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at anthology titled The Aesthetics of Intervention: Federal assisted curators Elizabeth Kornhauser and Shannon the University of Delaware Library. In this role, she Governments and Native Art across North America, Vittoria in researching the show Jules Tavernier and assisted with the exhibition Whistler and His Artistic, edited by Alexander Brier Marr and Nancy Palm the Elem Pomo, scheduled to open on Aug. 16, 2021 Literary, and Social Circles, which is set to open in Old Puchner. The book is scheduled to be published by Alba Campo Rosillo gives a PORTAL Gallery talk on George Peter Alexander in the Native American galleries of the museum’s College Gallery in spring 2021. She also continued Healy’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln at the Presidential Gallery in Spanish the University of Washington Press sometime in 2021. American Wing. The centerpiece of the show will to serve as lecture coordinator for the Association on Feb. 29, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Alba Campo Rosillo) 24 25 of Loïe Fuller and the Early Twentieth-Century Doctoral candidate Liz Simmons is finishing Parisian Cityscape” at the Annual SECAC Conference her dissertation, “Volterrano as a Draftsman: Style, (previously Southeastern College Art Conference). Technique, and Connoisseurship of Drawings in Hartman was co-chair of the 2019-20 Graduate Seicento Florence,” with the support of the Robert R. Student Lecture Series and is a co-organizer of the Davis Fellowship. Also toward her dissertation, she 2021 Center for Material Culture Studies Emerging will complete a virtual, short-term research fellowship Scholars Symposium “Animaterialites: The Material through Winterthur Museum, studying Volterrano’s Culture of Animals and Humans.” In the summer of ornamental drawings and plans for theater sets. 2020, Hartman was also the graduate curatorial In August, Simmons concluded a two-and- assistant at the Biggs Museum where he assisted a-half year research position at the Cincinnati Art curator Ryan Grover on a reinterpretation and Museum where she helped curate a major exhibition reinstallation of the Janvier Furniture Gallery to on the art of Frank Duveneck. She contributed an highlight the contributions of enslaved craftspeople essay, “Discovering Frank Duveneck’s Drawings,” for to Delaware’s early cabinetmaking tradition (see the catalogue Frank Duveneck: American Master, article on page 10). edited by Julie Aronson and published with D Giles Ltd. Simmons also participated in museum outreach Erin Hein received the University Graduate by leading an Art + Feminism Wikipedia-Edit-A- Tiarna Doherty examines digitized x-rays in the Technical Documentation Scholar Award for the 2020-21 academic year from Thon and by creating videos for CAM Connect, the Department at the Prado Museum. (L-R) Tiarna Doherty, Jaime García- Máiquez, Laura Alba Carcelén and Inma Echeverría Elvira. (Photo courtesy the University of Delaware Graduate College. She museum’s virtual education program. of Tiarna Doherty) presented a paper entitled “Surviving Caravaggio: Lea C. Stephenson researching the Newport cottage Kingscote. (Photo by Civic Legacy and Identity in the Burial of Saint Lucy In February, Lea C. Stephenson participated Jennifer Robinson) In January 2020, Tiarna Doherty presented (1608)” at SECAC (previously Southeastern College in the Washington University in St. Louis Graduate “Vicente Carducho’s Modelling of Artistic Practice Art Conference) in the fall of 2019. During the 2019- Student Art History Symposium “Close at Hand: Touch In the fall of 2019, Genevieve Westerby began and Connoisseurship” at the conference “Artists as 20 school year, Hein served as the Vice President of and Tactility in Art.” At this symposium, she presented her second year in the Curatorial Track Ph.D. program as Collectors: Models and Variants. From the Modern Internal Affairs in the Graduate Student Government her research on “Sumptuous Threads: Lady Mary an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellow. In November, Age to the 19th Century” held on January 23 and at the University of Delaware. Curzon’s Wardrobe and Tactility in the British Empire.” she presented a paper entitled “Monet and Nature 24 at the Instituto Moll in Madrid. Funding from the Her article, “Kingscote’s Dining Room and the Multi- at Night” at the Twelfth Biennial Bryn Mawr College Center for Material Culture Studies allowed for During the 2019-20 academic year, Kristen Sensorial Interior,” was accepted for publication in a Graduate Group Symposium. In April, she presented Doherty to extend her stay in Madrid and carry out Nassif served as the graduate assistant in Special special summer 2021 issue of the journal Nineteenth- a paper on the early exhibition practice of Mary preliminary research on Vicente Carducho at the Collections at Morris Library. Nassif also had the Century Art Worldwide on ambient interiors in the Cassatt in New York and Paris at the Department of Archivo de Protocolos in Madrid and at the Prado opportunity to teach her own class, “American Art United States. The article examines the Newport Art History’s Annual Graduate Symposium. She began Museum. Her time at the Prado Museum included to 1900,” over the winter session. In February, with cottage Kingscote and its 1881 dining room as a case an internship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the time in the Department of Technical Documentation the support of a College Art Association (CAA) study for multi-sensorial spaces of the Aesthetic Department of European Paintings at the beginning (Documentación Técnica y Laboratorio de análisis Travel Grant, she presented a paper drawn from Movement and how rooms could educate the senses. of the spring term. While her work was suspended Área de Restauración) examining the high-resolution her dissertation’s first chapter at the 108th Annual This article also incorporates a digital component that as a result of pandemic-related closures, she plans digital images of x-rays for some of the paintings by College Art Association Conference in Chicago. explores the ambient light effects of Tiffany & Co. tiles to complete the internship this fall. She will continue Carducho for the Monastery of El Paular. The time Nassif continued working on her dissertation and a and an annotated image highlighting how different to conduct research on Paul Gauguin related to a spent in Madrid helped her understand the extent forthcoming article during the spring semester, and senses connected to objects in the McKim, Mead & loan scheduled for 2021 and to assist with the re- of materials available that will be relevant to her she was thrilled to receive the Outstanding Graduate White designed room. Stephenson was invited to installation of two 19th-century paintings galleries. dissertation research going forward. Student Achievement Award by the Department of speak at the “Portrait Miniatures: Artists, Functions, Art History. In summer 2020, Nassif was awarded a and Collections” Symposium for the Tansey Miniatures During the 2019-20 academic year, Michael University of Delaware Summer Doctoral Fellowship, Foundation in Celle, Germany. At this international Hartman worked as Dr. Stephanie Delamaire’s which enabled her to focus on dissertation writing. symposium in May 2021, she will present her paper graduate curatorial assistant at the Winterthur She was also nominated to take on the role of intern “Racial Capital: Peter Marié’s Miniatures and Gilded Museum. He presented “Albert Bierstadt’s American for the Disability History Association, where she Age Whiteness,” in which she explores how miniatures West as ‘The Italy of America in a Primitive Condition’” serves as a co-editor for the blog “All of Us.” Nassif has of society women reaffirmed a particular racial vision in October 2019 at the Un-Fair Trades Conference additionally begun working for the Center for Material for Gilded Age audiences and constructed a gallery hosted at the CUNY Graduate Center. Later in the Culture Studies as a graduate assistant, which she of whiteness. month, he also presented “Dancing through Light and will continue through the 2020-21 academic year. Mechanical Locomotion: Harry C. Ellis’s Photographs 26 27 Graduate Awards

Graduate Research Travel Grant, Center for Material Culture Studies, Tiarna Doherty Tyson Scholar of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Anne Cross Fellow of theDelaware Humanities Public Institute, Center for Material International Research Travel Grant for U.S.-based Scholars, Terra Unidel Louise Roselle Collections-Based Research Travel Award, Graduate Ai Zoë Colón International Research Travel Grant for US-based Scholars, Terra R Alba Campo Rosillo Getty Graduate Fellowship, Prints andDrawings, Cleveland Museum of CanterDanielle DissertationGlobal Development Grant, Department ofHistory, Art University Graduate Scholar Award, Graduate College, University of Erin Hein R Natalie Giguere Jay andDeborah Last Fellowship, The American Antiquarian Society, Unidel Louise Roselle Collections-Based Research Travel Award, Graduate Outstanding Graduate Student Achievement Award, Department of Art AngelosMeghan obert T.obert andAnnaR. Silver Prize History, inArt Department ofHistory, Art esidential Predoctoral Fellowship, Portrait National Gallery, Smithsonian lsa Bruce Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art Delawar Universi Universi Summer 2020 2020-21 (Decl 2021 Disser Culture Studies, University of Delaware, Summer 2020 Foundation, 2020 College, University of Delaware, 2020 2020 to Travel Abroad, Center for Advanced Study intheVisualArts, Foundation, 2019-20 Institution, 2019-20 Art, Summer 2019 College, University of Delaware, 2020 Universi History, University of Delaware, 2020 tation Fellowship inAmerican Art, September 2020-May ty of Delaware, 2020 ty of Delaware, 2020 ty of Delaware, 2020 e, 2020-21 28 ined)

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Alumni Notes

Vivien Barnett (B.A., M.A. 2020) graduated During the 2019-20 academic year, Alan C. from the Art History for Museum Professionals 4+1 Braddock (Ph.D. 2002) was a scholar-in-residence B.A./M.A. program in the spring semester of 2020. at the Getty Research Institute, part of a cohort After receiving her master’s degree in Art History working on the research theme of art and ecology. and graduate certificate in Museum Studies, Barnett In addition to experiencing an evacuation due to began working as a curatorial assistant at the wildfire in Los Angeles in October 2019, Braddock and Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore his fellow scholars were forced to leave their offices this August. In the summer of 2019, she served as an at the Getty in March 2020 and work under lockdown intern in the Fashion Archives of the same institution, conditions in their apartment complex as a result of where she cataloged and rehoused more than 75 the coronavirus pandemic. Despite these challenges, historic garments and accessories, wrote weekly blog Braddock embarked on a new book titled Implication: posts on fashion history and conducted a research An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History for Yale project on the archival storage of fur garments in the University Press. Before the lockdown, he gave lectures museum’s collection. As a curatorial assistant, Barnett in Mexico City; New York; Laguna Beach, California; continues her work with the fashion archives, while and Chicago. The Getty Research Institute has invited also taking part in a large deaccessioning project and him to co-edit a new collection of essays by various assisting with the research, planning and preparation authors on the history of art and ecology. Braddock’s Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment of exhibitions. book , Rachel Zimmerman, Emily Casey, Isabel Oleas-Mogollón (top row L-R), Nicole Cook, Amy Torbert, Hannah Segrave (middle row L-R) co-authored and co-edited with Colin Nelson-Dusek, Craig Lee and Lisa Berry-Drago (bottom row L-R) reconnect over a Zoom call. ((Photo courtesy of Emily Casey) Karl Kusserow (Princeton University Art Museum/Yale University continents and three time zones! It was really special held up by the pandemic. Another project suffering Press, 2018), received three major for them to reconnect in this way and speak about postponement is his project for the Houghton Library national awards: the College Art their memories from their first meeting in classes. at Harvard to celebrate the building’s renovation Association’s Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Folks in their cohort are now working in the academic, with a selection of children’s books and collateral Award for Distinguished Exhibition museum and the culture sectors broadly. materials from their collection and the proposed gift Catalogue; the Association of of the collector Peter Solomon. Also, in the works is Art Museum Curators Award for H. Nichols B. “Nick” Clark (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1982) an exhibition for the Baker Museum in Naples, Florida Excellence; and the Association of was deeply saddened by Wayne Craven’s death. He that comprises an extraordinary collection of New American Publishers PROSE Award had the privilege of speaking at the service organized York Yankees memorabilia—for a diehard Red Sox fan for Best Art Exhibition Publication. by the department. Craven’s importance as a scholar it must be. Thus, he is keeping very busy in retirement. While driving back to Virginia and mentor, humor and humanity and bearing as a after his Getty residency, Braddock gentleman were universal themes. Bryce Gates (B.A. 2016) graduated from contracted COVID-19 while visiting In his retirement as founding director and American University Washington College of Law family in Iowa, but fortunately he chief curator of the Eric Carle Museum, Clark has with his Juris Doctorate in May 2019 and is currently recovered after two weeks of been working with another extraordinary children’s- completing a two-year judicial clerkship with the quarantine there. book artist to assess and place his archive. It has Honorable Judge Carl Danberg and the Honorable been donated to the University of Pennsylvania, and Judge Robert Surles, with the Court of Common Pleas Emily Casey (Ph.D. 2017) he is in the final leg of tying things up. In the fall of for New Castle County, Delaware. In October 2019, celebrated the 10-year anniversary 2019, he wrote essays about the posters Eric Carle he married Lauren Camp (B.A., M.A. 2017, Nonprofit of beginning her studies at the created between 1950 and 1952 in Stuttgart for what Management and Administration). Camp currently University of Delaware with her was to become the USIA and for his more recent works as the Executive Director for the Down cohort during a joyful virtual collages in homage to his hero Paul Klee. These Syndrome Association of Delaware. The couple lives

Vivien Barnett measures a 1920s silver fox stole at the Maryland Center for History and Culture. reunion over Zoom on Sept. independent works were scheduled to go on view at happily in Wilmington, Delaware with their dog, (Photo by AnnaLivia McCarthy) 14, 2020. They met across two The Carle in June of 2020, but the exhibition has been Bailey. 30 31 In October 2019, Laurette E. McCarthy (Ph.D. 1996) presented a paper at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art on “Walter Pach: Agent of Modernism(s)” as part of “The Transnational Framework of Modernism’s Many Emergences, 1900-1950” panel which was held in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition Emerging Modernisms, American and European Art, 1900-1950. In addition, a guest blog she wrote for the Archives of American Art/the Archives’ Smithsonian Voices, “Triangulated Modernisms: Walter Pach’s Engagements with Mexican Art and Artists,” which was excellently edited by Elizabeth Botten at AAA, posted to the AAA website in February 2020 and was subsequently added to the Smithsonian Magazine’s homepage in August 2020. She has been working with Gail Stavitsky and the Montclair Bryce Gates and his wife celebrate with many UD alumni at their wedding in October 2019. (Photo courtesy of Bryce Gates) Art Museum on a potential retrospective exhibition on American modernist Morton L. Schamberg. During Gates’ time with the Department of Art Joyce Hill Stoner (Ph.D. 1995)—Rosenberg Other research projects include early 20th-century History at the University of Delaware, he served as Professor, director of the Preservation Studies Doctoral American sculpture and The Shilling Fund. McCarthy president of the Art History Club and wrote his senior Program, University of Delaware—received the is also conducting research on the collection of thesis under the supervision of Professor Mónica Caroline and Sheldon Keck Teaching Award from the historic Indiana art owned by The Columbia Club in Domínguez Torres and Professor Lawrence Nees. American Institute for Conservation on July 29, 2020. her hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. She also had A revised edition of her 2012 890-page Routledge the honor of being asked to serve on the Collection William Morgan. (Photo courtesy of William Morgan) book Conservation of Easel Paintings, co-edited with Council of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians Rebecca Rushfield, is scheduled for publication at the and Western Art, also in Indianapolis. modernism. In conjunction with the exhibition, she was end of 2020. invited to lecture on the important, but little-known William Morgan (Ph.D. 1971) is an architectural modernist exhibiting group The Penguin. However, Joan Marter (Ph.D. 1974) and Roberta K. writer based in Providence. Since moving to Rhode the virus outbreak cancelled that event. She turned Tarbell (Ph.D. 1976) continue to honor the wise counsel Island, he has taught at Roger Williams, Wheaton the prominent New York art dealer Bernard Goldberg of Wayne Craven, their dissertation adviser. and Brown. He contributes to a variety of magazines onto Gaylor and he agreed to become lead sponsor and is the architecture critic of GoLocalProvidence. of the Fleming Museum’s three-venue exhibition tour Snowbound: Dwelling in Winter (Princeton Architectural and will present his own Gaylor show when the virus Press) was published in October. An earlier book, lifts and trade shows resume. She also contributed an Monadnock Summer: The Architectural Legacy essay about the benevolent and endlessly generous of Dublin, New Hampshire (David R. Godine) was patron Jonathan Sturges to a collected book of nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is eternally grateful essays about patrons/collectors to be published by for the tutelage of William Homer, Wayne Craven the Frick. In April, she presented a virtual lecture for and especially George Tatum. Olana State Historic Site on the lifelong friendship between Frederic Edwin Church and the patron W.H. Despite COVID-19, the past year has been Osborn to a respectable group of some 130 viewers. exceedingly busy for Christine Isabelle Oaklander This is available for viewing online through Olana’s (Ph.D. 1999). Continuing in her role as art consultant/ website. Oaklander researched and brokered the independent scholar, Oaklander completed two sale of a rediscovered Winslow Homer watercolor invited projects. The Fleming Museum at the University of Key West and found a pair of abstract Thomas of Vermont organized an exhibition on the early Hart Benton paintings at an antique show. She knows modernist painter Wood Gaylor. She contributed that if he were still around, her advisor, Bill Homer, an essay to the catalogue and served as consulting would be tickled pink as she learned about Benton’s Joan Marter, Roberta Tarbell and Wayne Craven at Clayton Hall, before Joyce Hill Stoner with her book Conservation of Easel Paintings. (Photo Dr. Craven’s keynote address for the 50th anniversary of the Department curator. This is a topic that grew directly from her abstractions in her first-year seminar with him, courtesy of Joyce Hill Stoner) of Art History in 2016. (Photo courtesy of Joan Marter) dissertation on the Armory Show and early American focusing on early American modernism. During the 32 33 pandemic, she decided to write an article drawing a never finished his graduate work at the University Karli Wurzelbacher (Ph.D. 2018) is curator of parallel between the April 1864 Metropolitan Fair, held of Delaware, the wonderful lessons and people are the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York. on Union Square in New York City, and art in service remembered fondly. If you would like to say hello, hear Since beginning the position in August 2019, she has to the pandemic. She focused not on the fairly well- about Jackie Kennedy or tour the new DEA Museum, organized the exhibitions Locally Sourced: Collecting known art display in the enormous tent but on art please reach out to [email protected]. Long Island Artists and Amanda Valdez: Piecework, for placed in other areas throughout the fair. The article is which she wrote an essay. She presented a paper on forthcoming from Maine Antique Digest. Most recently, Rebecca Salsbury James, a subject of her dissertation, she discovered what appear to be five illustrations at the Southwest Art History Conference in Taos, New by John Martin for Milton’s Paradise Lost. She finds Mexico, in October 2019. that each object that she buys or represents for a client offers a practical crash course in that artist or time period. Finally, for the past six months, she has cooperated with the FBI in pursuing an art crime that promises to be headline news if and when it breaks. So, all in all, not a boring year.

Jeffrey Richmond-Moll (Ph.D. 2019) began his three-year term as co-chair of the Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) in February 2020. Together with fellow AHAA chair Louise Siddons, he co-edited a special section of the fall 2020 issue of the journal Panorama, which celebrates AHAA’s 40th anniversary, reflects on the organization’s past and Steve Stuart next to The Great Warrior of Montauban at the Hirshhorn charts a course for its future. During his first year as Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. curator of American art at the Georgia Museum of Art, (Photo courtesy of Steve Stuart) he organized exhibitions and installations on Cecilia Karli Wurzelbacher speaks with Heckscher Museum members about Beaux’s Twilight Confidences(1888), photography in Roberta K. Tarbell (M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1976, Fairfield Porter’s portraits in the 2019 exhibitionLocally Sourced: Collecting Long Island Artists. (Photo courtesy of Karli Wurzelbacher) the anthropocene and a video-based performance Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh works in the special collections at Elizabethtown visiting professor 1980-84)—professor emerita, art project on global sea level rise. He also began a College. (Photo courtesy of Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh) history, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey—is a multi-year reinstallation of the museum’s permanent visiting scholar in the Department of American Art at collection galleries of American art. Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh (B.A. 2005) recently the Center for American Art, Philadelphia Museum of completed her term as chair of the Mid-Atlantic Art. For 35 years, she has been an affiliated professor Regional Archives Conference (2019-20). Since 2014, of art history with the Winterthur Museum/University she has been the archivist at Elizabethtown College, of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, currently where she manages the Earl H. and Anita F. Hess advising students in the Preservation Studies doctoral Archives and Special Collections, which focuses on program. Her review of City of Women: Female Anabaptist and Pietist groups. Artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 [Stadt der Frauen: Künstlerinnen in Wien, 1900-1938] (Vienna, Austria: Steve Stuart (B.A. 1990) has recently been hired Lower Belvedere and Munich: Prestel, 2019), was as a program analyst for the DEA Museum in Arlington, published in Woman’s Art Journal (40, no. 2, fall/winter Virginia. He is serving as operations manager and 2019). Her essay, “Appreciation: Joshua C. Taylor (1917- senior collection manager. The completely remodeled 81),” which celebrates the director of the National museum is scheduled to open in October 2020. Stuart Collection of Fine Arts [now the Smithsonian American previously worked at Mount Vernon and Hillwood Art Museum] who initiated the fellowship program in Estate, Museum and Gardens. He also serves as the 1970, was published in American Art (34, No. 2, summer archivist at Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22 and 2020). Sequestered during the pandemic, she is is on contract at Blair House, the President’s Guest preparing archival documents accumulated over fifty House. He volunteers at the White House Visitor years for donation to the Archives of American Art, Still from a video tour of In Dialogue: Cecilia Beaux’s “Twilight Confidences” by Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art, Georgia Museum of Center and the White House Visitors Office. Stuart Smithsonian Institution. Art. (Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Richmond-Moll) and his fiancé Dean live in Alexandria. Although he 34 35 Donors & Friends ‘19

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