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Susan Rather SUSAN RATHER Department of Art and Art History The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station D1300 Austin, Texas 78712-1104 [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. 1986, Art History, University of Delaware, Newark M.A. 1981, Art History, University of Delaware, Newark B.A. 1978, with Highest Honors, Art History, Denison University, Granville, Ohio POSITIONS 1986-present Professor, University of Texas at Austin (assistant, associate, full) 1985, 1986 Lecturer, American University (spring semesters) 1993 Acting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia (fall) 1982, 1983 Lecturer, University of Delaware (summer and winter sessions) 1981-1982 Teaching Assistant, University of Delaware PUBLICATIONS Books: The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era (New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2016), 308 pp., 100 color + 80 b/w illus. 2018 Charles C. Eldredge Prize, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution New England Society Book Award for Art, 2017 Short list, 2017 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History Reviews: Loyd Grossman, Burlington Magazine 158 (Nov. 2016): 909-10. Bryan Wolf, Critical Inquiry 43 (Summer 2017): 916-918. Wendy Bellion, CAA.Reviews, October 2017. Margaretta M. Lovell, Journal of American History 104 (Sept. 2017): 481-82. Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 3 (fall 2017). Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship American Studies Series (Austin, Tx.: University of Texas Press, 1993), xiv + 268 pp. Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Essays in Exhibition Catalogues: “‘Copies or Resemblances of Nature’: The Limitations of Portrait Painting in Colonial British America,” in New England/New Spain: Portraiture in the Colonial Americas, 1492-1850, Papers from the 2015 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum, eds. Donna Pierce and Emily Ballew Neff (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2016): 11-31. “Eakins’s Socks,” Source: Notes In the History of Art 35 (fall 2015-winter 2016): 50-61. “Painters and Status in Colony and Early Nation,” for A Companion to American Art, eds. John Davis, Jennifer Greenhill, and Jason LaFountain (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), 359-77. “‘The Limner’: Harry Croswell, Newspaper Politics, and the Portraitist as a Public Figure in the Early Republic,” in Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America, ed. Maurie D. McInnis and Louis P. Nelson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011): 231-67. “Miss Cheer as Lady Rosehill: A Real-Life Drama in Late-Colonial British America,” Theatre Notebook 64: 2 (2010): 82-95. “Contrary Stuart,” American Art 24 (Spring 2010): 66-93. “Benjamin West, John Galt, and the Biography of 1816,” Art Bulletin 86 (June 2004): 323-45. “Benjamin West’s Professional Endgame and The Historical Conundrum of William Williams,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, 59 (October 2002): 821-64. “Carpenter, Tailor, Shoemaker, Artist: Copley and Portrait Painting around 1770,” Art Bulletin 79 (June 1997): 269-90. “Avant-Garde or Kitsch? Modern and Modernistic in American Sculpture between the Wars,” for the exhibition The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995): 158-170. “Stuart and Reynolds: A Portrait of Challenge,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 27 (Fall 1993): 61-84. “A Painter's Progress: Matthew Pratt and The American School,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 28 (1993): 169-83. “Rome and the American Academy: Art Mecca or Artistic Backwater?” in The Italian Presence in American Art, 1860-1920 (New York: Fordham University Press and Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1991), 214-28. “Paul Manship, Archaism, and the Dance,” Antiques 140 (August 1991): 218-27. “Toward a New Language of Form: Karl Bitter and the Beginnings of Archaism in American Sculpture,” Winterthur Portfolio 25 (Spring 1990): 1-19 Introductory Essay for Southeast Texas Collects American Art, exh. cat., (Beaumont, Texas: Art Museum of Southeast Texas, 1987), n.p. “Paul Manship and the Genesis of Archaism,” in Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America (Saint Paul: Minnesota Museum of Art, 1985), 63-77. “The Past Made Modern: Archaism in American Sculpture,” Arts Magazine 59 (November 1984): 111-119. “Gertrude Käsebier and the Woman's Experience,” Philadelphia Photo Review 4 (August-September 1979): 2-7. Book Reviews: Kevin D. Murphy, Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010); Journal of the Early Republic 32 (Fall 2012): 515-18. Margaretta M. Lovell, Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 (Summer 2006): 564-68. Linda Baumgarten, What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in association with Yale University Press, 2002); CAA.Reviews [2003] Dorinda Evans, Gilbert Stuart (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998); CAA.Reviews [1999] Ellen G. Miles, ed., The Portrait in Eighteenth-Century America (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1993); Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 119 (January/April 1995): 172-73. Elizabeth Johns, American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991); Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 117 (October 1993): 346- 48. John Manship, Paul Manship (New York: Abbeville Press, 1989); Archives of American Art Journal 31 (1992): 32-33. Harry Rand, Paul Manship (Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989); Art Journal 48 (Winter 1989): 359-61. Dictionary and Catalogue Entries: Paul Manship, Diana, 1921, for 50 Years of Collecting at the Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine: Colby College Museum of Art, 2009). American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), s.v. “Paul Manship,” “Matthew Pratt.” The New-York Historical Society, Encyclopedia of New York City, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), s.v. “Karl Bitter,” “Frederick William MacMonnies,” “Paul Manship.” Other: “Cover Story: Design, Content, and The American School,” Yale Books Unbound http://artbooks.yupnet.org/2016/04/06/cover-story-design-content-and-the-american-school/ Submitted: “Memento: Samuel F. B. Morse’s First Art Teacher and the Enduring Value of the Miniature,” for For America: The Art of the National Academy of Design (spring 2019) RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND ACADEMIC AWARDS 2017 (spring) Faculty Fellow, Humanities Institute, University of Texas: “Health, Well-Being, and Healing” 2013-14 NEH Fellowship 2012 (fall) Tyson Scholar of American Art (inaugural Senior Fellow), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art 2012 (spring) Ducloux Family Fellowship, University of Texas 1997-98 John D. Murchison Faculty Fellow in Art, University of Texas 1997 NEH Summer Stipend 1992 Andrew Oliver Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society (summer) 1990-91 Visiting Fellow, Yale Center for British Art (September) NEH Research Fellow, Winterthur Museum (October-August) ACLS Grant-in-Aid Virginia Steele Scott Foundation Fellow, The Huntington Library (declined) 1982-84 Smithsonian Fellow, National Museum of American Art 1982 Zorach Traveling Fellowship Wilford Cole Memorial Fund Fellowship, University of Delaware 1981-82 Teaching Fellow, University of Delaware 1978-81 Unidel Fellow, University of Delaware 1979 President's Award for Research on Women, University of Delaware (for "Gertrude Käsebier and the Woman's Experience") 1978 Phi Beta Kappa Competitive Grants from the University of Texas: Big XII Faculty Fellowship, November 2014, University of Oklahoma (not used) Book Subvention Grant awarded by the Office of the President, 2014 Faculty Development Program: Faculty Research Assignment, spring 1996, spring 2001, fall 2005, fall 2010 Summer Research Award, 1987, 1990; 1997 (supplement to NEH award) Special Research Grant, 1990, 1995, 1996, 2008 College of Fine Arts: Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1989, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005 SCHOLARLY PAPERS, LECTURES AT UNIVERSITIES AND MUSEUMS “The Business and Politics of Painting in New York around 1800,” Albany Institute of History and Art, 225th Anniversary Year Lecture Series, October 2016 Anchor address for session on “American Art” at symposium celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware, Newark, October 2016 “Copies or Resemblances of Nature”: The Limitations of Portrait Painting in Colonial British America, for “New England/New Spain: Portraiture in the Colonial Americas, 1492-1850” sponsored by the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for PreColumbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum, January 2015. “Undressing the Portrait: Aspiration, Attainment, and Fantasy in American Colonial Painting,” Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, December 2012 Arkansas Seminar in Early American History, University of Arkansas, November 2012 (faculty/grad student group in discussion of circulated draft introduction for my book-in-progress) “Artisan, Gentleman, Genius: The Status of the American Artist from the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries,” Texas A & M University, February
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