The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, formerly known as the Washington University Gallery of Art, is located in the same building as the Department of Art History and Archaeology. It is a wonderful resource for the Department's faculty, staff, and students, along with the Washington University community. The Museum's collection contains strong holdings of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs. The collection also includes the Wulfing Collection of Ancient Coins, Egyptian and Greek antiquities, over one hundred Old Master prints, and Native American objects. Art History students can take advantage of the Museum's resources through participating in the Teaching Galleries (Student Docent) Program and researching works of art in the galleries or through Study Room visits.
Teaching Gallery
The Teaching Gallery at the Kemper Art Museum allows for Washington University faculty and graduate students to organize exhibitions integrating objects from the Museum's collection into the curricula of a specific course taught during the fall, spring, or summer semesters. The gallery is located within the Bernoudy Permanent Collection Gallery. Here is a list of all Teaching Gallery exhibitions that have been organized and curated by the faculty and/or graduate students of the Department of Art History and Archaeology (to learn more about each exhibtion, click the exhibition title):
Studying the Art Object: Materials and Methods
Organized by Mark Weil, E. Desmond Lee Professor Emeritus
Course: Looking at Art: Excercises in Learning to Know
August 20, 2010 - January 10, 2011
Humor, Irony, and Satire: Strategies of Critique in Modern Art and Culture
Organized by Bryna Campbell, Ph.D. Candidate
Course: Caricature, Comic Strips, and Beyond: Humor in the Art and Visual Culture of the Modern Age
May 21 - July 18, 2010
A Challenge to Democracy: Ethnic Profiling of Japanese Americans During World War II
Organized by Anna Warbelow and Elissa Weichbrodt, Ph.D. Candidates, with Angela Miller, Professor of Art History and Archaeology
September 18, 2009 - January 4, 2010
The Political Eye: Nineteenth-century French Cariacture and the Mass Media
Curated by Elizabeth Childs, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, and Steve Hause, Senior Scholar in the Humanities
Course: French Art and Politics in the Belle Epoque
January 30 - April 27, 2009
Serious Drinking: Vases of the Greek Symposium
Curated by Susan Rotroff, the Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities
Course: Ancient Athens
August 22, 2008 - January 5, 2009
Pressing Issues: The Social Agency of Prints
Organized by Lisa Bulawaky, Associate Professor of Art, and Elizabeth Childs, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Course: Special Topics in Printmaking: History and Practice of Printmaking
October 25 - December 31, 2006