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Graduate Alumni News Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture Story Number 12 2011-12 January, 2012 Graduate Alumni News Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture story In this issue: Erica Hirshler, Croll Senior Feature Article……..1, 4, 5 Curator of American Paintings at the Faculty News..………2 MFA Boston. Erica is standing in front Alumni Updates….….3-4 of the iconic John Singer Sargent painting, Alumni Support……..6 The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. The Graduate painting is the Symposium ………….6 subject of her most recent book. BU Art History Alumna is the Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Boston MFA Doctoral student Deb Stein has interviewed Did you always want to be an art historian? room for somebody interested in doing new Erica E. Hirshler (MA 1983, PhD 1992) for What were the early “signs” that it was the work. And the material was accessible. All of this edition of the Newsletter. Erica is the right career choice for you? My father this compared favorably to medieval studies, Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at taught art history and I actually was fairly where I felt like I’d always be competing with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The determined to do something else! But then I Panofsky! So, by the time I got to BU, I Museum, well known to BU History of Art & started to take art history when I was in already knew that I was interested in Architecture faculty, students, and alumni, is a college because I thought that everybody American art. Pat Hills and Keith Morgan world-class arts institution just a stone’s throw should at least take the survey…and I was were my primary advisors. I studied a lot of from the BU Charles River campus, and long hooked. architectural history as well as painting. a valued partner with BU in the art historical educational process. The Museum has Tell us about those first moments in art I should also say that I was very interested in recently opened the new Art of the Americas history and how they developed. Aside from conservation when I was in college and Wing to great critical acclaim; the ten-year countless visits to museums and churches as a actually entered BU with the idea of doing a planning and execution process was one in child, I probably became hooked first on Masters degree and going on to study which Erica was centrally involved and which medieval art (my father’s field) through an paintings conservation. I didn’t end up going she addresses in the interview. Erica also BU Alumnaearly Erica passion E. Hirshler,for historical Croll fiction. Senior I studied Curator of inAmerican that direction Paintings,, but I think my interest in reflects on her BU experience and the ways in medieval art, literature, and history at being a museum art historian instead of an Museum of Fine Arts, Boston standing in front of the Museum’s iconic John which she maximized the academic and Wellesley College. But then I began to study academic art historian is partly related to my professional springboard that it offered. Singer SargeAmericannt painting, art, which The really Daughters inspired of me Edward Darleyinterest Boit in the material thing. Finally, she shares some of the joys and because it never had occurred to me that it was challenges of keeping scholarship alive and its own sub-field until I started studying with well in her professional life. Deb’s interview Jim O’Gorman at Wellesley. There were with Erica follows here: surveys, some monographs, but still lots of Interview continued on page 4 Graduate Alumni News Page 2 Page 2 News from the desk of Professor Patricia Hills, Faculty Liaison for the History of Art & Architecture Graduate Alumni Association December 14, 2011 The Department announced a new fellowship Dear Alumni and Friends, During 2011 the following received the program for post-BA students: the four-year PhD degree: Melissa Renn and Virginia Ray and Margaret Horowitz Fellowship in This year Deb Stein, one of our doctoral Anderson. American Art. Post-BA students applying to students, conducted an interview with Erica the Boston University MA/PhD program and Hirshler (MA 1983, PhD 1992), the Croll Receiving their MA degrees are: Lara who want to study any aspect of American art Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Ayad, Joshua Perry Basseches, Mia including architecture are eligible. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which we are Cancarevic, Jacquelyn Canevari, Yue fellowship includes tuition, fees, and a stipend publishing in this Newsletter. Hu, Jeong Hye Kim, Gina Iacobelli, for four years. The first and second years the Alexandra Polemis, Laura Elizabeth student focuses on courses; the third year Thiel, Rachel Tolano, Jing Sun, and This September Professor William Moore consists of a teaching fellowship, finishing Katherine Shoemaker Sutlive. Lara, started in our Department as an Associate coursework and preparing for the doctoral Josh and Rachel are continuing in the Professor with tenure. His specialty is American examinations; the fourth year is reserved for PhD program. At the graduation material culture, so that many of his courses will doctoral exams, dissertation research, and ceremony, held on May 22, 2011, be taught for the American and New England writing. The fellowship is being funded Jacquelyn Canevari was the first recipient Studies Program. Will received his AB degree through the generosity of the Mr. and Mrs. of the Mamie Elizabeth Hyatt Memorial from Harvard University and his PhD from Raymond Horowitz Foundation. Book Award; her MA paper, “William AMNESP at Boston University. He has Klein and the Photographic Book," was published Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, For 2011-12 Austin Porter and Kenneth judged by the Graduate Studies Ritual Architecture and Masculine Archetypes Hartvigsen are holding the Ray and Margaret Committee as the best MA paper for (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, Horowitz Dissertation Fellowships in 2011. 2006), and is currently writing a book on the American Art. Austin was awarded the critical reception and promotion of the art and Fellowship in January 2010, but he postponed architecture of the Shakers. He is also the co- the award because for 2010-11 he had accepted On April 20, 2011, we heard the sad news editor with Mark A. Tabbert of Secret Societies that Mamie Hyatt, a Jan and Warren a Smithsonian American Art Museum in America: Foundational Studies of fellowship. Adelson Fellow, had died in her sleep in Fraternalism (New Orleans: Cornerstone Book Stockholm, Sweden, where she was Publishers, 2011). We are pleased to welcome During the Spring 2012 semester, Professor studying on a Fulbright Fellowship. She Will back. was there researching the art and life of Patricia Hills will be Acting Chair of the Department, while Professor Fred S. Kleiner Herbert Gentry, an African American In March 2011 Kate McNamara joined us as is on leave. He will be lecturing in Europe and artist and jazz promoter, who had spent the Director and Chief Curator of the Boston the Far East and supervising photography in the post-World War II years in Paris and Sweden. Gentry was to have been the University Art Gallery. She received her B.A. Europe for the next edition of Art through the from Hampshire College and an MA in Ages. subject of her dissertation and also of an Curatorial Studies from Bard College. She has exhibition for the BU Art Gallery. We previously worked in New York at P.S. 1. Her During 2011-12 Professor Deborah Kahn is plan to move ahead with the exhibition, with Josh Buckno as the project director first exhibition, in September, showcased the on leave for the Spring Semester and Professor prints of Joan Snyder. Her second exhibition Qianshen Bai is on leave for both semesters and Rachel Tolano as curator. “Hungry for Death’’ includes posters, fliers, with a fellowship from the National photographs, album covers, and more ephemera Endowment for the Humanities. For other We honored Mamie’s life with a service, held at the BU Art Gallery on May 19, chronicling the band “Destroy All Monsters” news of Faculty and current students, see the (Mike Kelley, Niagara, Jim Shaw, and Cary ArtBUll, 2011. Attending the service and the Loren), a punk music group active in Detroit in [http://www.bu.edu/ah/2011/12/16/fall-2011- following reception were Mamie’s mother, Deborah Hyatt, and her the 1970s. art -bull-now-available/] grandmother, Catherine Hyatt, both of Akron, Ohio. We also honored Mamie’s The new Architecture History and Architectural BU at CAA 2012! memory by setting up the Mamie Studies programs of the Department of History Elizabeth Hyatt Memorial Book Award, of Art & Architecture are thriving. Prof. Keith Join us for the annual which will be awarded annually to the N. Morgan, Director of Architectural Studies, most distinguished MA paper as judged reports that there are 3 students enrolled in the Boston University Alumni by the Graduate Studies Committee. undergraduate program for architectural history and 30 students in the undergraduate Breakfast, hosted by Professors Fred Kleiner We thank Deb Stein, our editor for this professional pre-architecture program. An issue. undergraduate Architecture Club has also been and Patricia Hills, which established. In addition, there are 3 students in the graduate program studying architecture will be held from 7:30-9 history this fall. In December, the Boston am, Friday, February 24 in Society of Architects presented Professor the Los Cerritos Room of Morgan with the 2011 Honor Award for Service to the Profession. the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles Graduate Alumni News Page 3 BU History of Art and Architecture Alumni Updates Kate Palmer Albers (PhD 2008) is in her 4th $150,000 gift which allowed Julia to be Susan Greendyke Lachevre (MA 1984) continues to year as Assistant Professor at the University of brought on board full-time.
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