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April 22, 2019
William Wallace and Betha Whitlow Receive Graduate Student Senate Awards

In April 2019, Professor William Wallace received the Graduate Student Senate Outstanding Faculty Award, and Curator of Visual Resources Betha Whitlow received the Graduate Student Senate Outstanding Staff Award. These awards are nominated and voted on by graduate students to recognize contributions to their life and work on campus. Ph.d. Candidate Lindsay Sheedy presented Professor Wallace with his award, while M.A. student Holly Chen presented Betha with her award. 

 

Lindsay Sheedy, Betha Whitlow, William Wallace, and Holly Chen

April 22, 2019
Art History Majors inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

Art History majors Ebonie Pollock and Madison Wrobly were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa on April 18, 2019. Sophomore Art History major Jonathan Cher received Phi Beta Kappa's Wheeler Book Award, which recognizes superior course selection and achievement during a student's first three semesters at WUSTL. 

 

Ebonie Pollock Madison Wrobley

Ebonie Pollock, Professor Vincent Sherry (English), and Professor Elizabeth Childs (Art History)

Jonathan Cher

 

April 8, 2019
Dr. Nathaniel Jones' book is published

 

 

The Department of Art History and Archaeology is pleased to announce that Nathaniel Jones' book Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome  has been published by Cambridge University Press. 

April 8, 2019
Dr. Nicola Aravecchia's book is published

 

 

October 30, 2018
Professor John Klein's new Matisse book published

Professor Klein’s new book, Matisse and Decoration, was published by Yale University Press. You can see a short page-turn video here.

 

June 14, 2018
Korff Postdoctoral Fellow Deborah Spivak curates "Balance and Opposition in Ancient Peruvian Textiles" at Saint Louis Art Museum, opening June 15

The exhibition "Balance and Opposition in Ancient Peruvian Textiles" will open in the main hall of the Saint Louis Art Museum starting June of 2018. The show is curated by Dr. Deborah Spivak, current Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Ancient American Art, who will be teaching courses for the Department of Art History and Archaeology this coming fall. 

Find more information about the exhibition here and here.

April 11, 2018
Professor Angela Miller takes Art History into Missouri Prison

Currently, Professor Angela Miller is teaching the seminar "The City in American Arts and Popular Culture, 1910-1940" at Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, MO.  She has joined a widening group of faculty participating in the Prison Education Project, launched in 2014 and sponsored by Washington University.  Find out more about PEP here.

 

February 9, 2018
Art History and Archaeology Cited for "Doctoral Training Innovations"

The Department of Art History and Archaeology was cited in the announcement of the "Faculty for the Next Generation" grant of $1.5 million given by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Center for the Humanities to stimulate innovations in the training of PhD students.

Read more about the Mellon grant here. 

 

February 5, 2018
Professor Angela Miller Receives NEH Award

Angela Miller will receive $50,400 to continue the project “Countermoderns: Reason and Magic in the Artistic and Literary Circle of Lincoln Kirstein.” Kirstein was a founder of the New York City Ballet, and an advocate for gay and bisexual artists such as Jared French, Paul Cadmus, and George Tooker.  

January 8, 2018
Professor Wallace Receives Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award

Dr. Wallace was nominated by the Dean of Arts & Sciences for this celebrated award.  To read more about the honor, click here.

December 7, 2017
Professor Liz Childs speaks at the Musée d'Orsay, Van Gogh Museum
In October 2017, Prof. Elizabeth Childs, who is on sabbatical this year, delivered two talks in Europe. The first concerned the aesthetic and cultural meanings of the tropical woods used by Paul Gauguin in the sculptures produced in his first trip to Tahiti (1891-93). She delivered her paper "L'alchimie des tropiques: matérialité de la sculpture tahitienne de Gauguin," in the international colloquium "Gauguin, le droit de tout oser" at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, in conjunction with the exhibition "Gauguin l'alchimiste" on view at the Grand Palais. She also reviewed the exhibition (at its Chicago venue, in the summer of 2017) for The Burlington Magazine  (vol. CLIX, September 2017), pp. 761-762. You can read the review here.
October 10, 2017
Alexis Clark Pens Review

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Alexis Clark has reviewed Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? (ed. Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski) and Cultures of International Exhibitions, 1840-1940: Great Exhibitions in the Margins (ed. Marta Filipovà) for the fall 2017 issue of Oxford Art Journal.

September 26, 2017
Recent Graduate James Anno assumes new position at the Capodimonte
James Anno (PhD Spring 2017) assumed his new position at the Capodimonte in Naples Italy, where he will oversee and help promote the collections of 15th and 16th century Italian art. Dr. Anno worked with Professor William Wallace on a dissertation on Michelangelo. His position at the Capodimonte is supported by the American Friends of Capodimonte. Anno will also be involved with writing didactic materials at the museum. His appointment received notices in two city editions of national newspapers. With Anno are his wife and two young children, who are attending Italian schools.  
August 10, 2017
Dr. Childs referenced in Artsy article, "Why Is the Art World Divided over Gauguin's Legacy?"

You can access the article, "Why Is the Art World Divided over Gauguin's Legacy?" here. 

June 8, 2017
John Klein Writes Review for CAA

Professor John Klein has reviewed the 3-volume catalogue of Matisse artworks in the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, in CAAReviews.  You can access this review here.

 

April 25, 2017
Department Administrative Assistant Nancy Rubin Receives a 2017 Outstanding Staff Award

Nancy Rubin is one of seven staff members to receive a 2017 Outstanding Staff Award from the Graduate Student Senate and the Graduate School. The Department thanks Nancy for all of her hard work and attention to detail! 

 

April 11, 2017
PhD students Receive National and International Grants

Three of our PhD students have received research grants and fellowships for the summer of 2017 and beyond. 

James Anno has been appointed the first Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow by the Board of the American Friends of Capodimonte in Naples, Italy.  This is a wo year post-doctoral position with the possibility of a third year renewal. 

Mia Laufer has received the Posen Society of Fellows - Fellowship for Emerging Scholars. It is a two year award that includes two summer seminars led by preeminent Jewish Studies scholars. 

Kate Harnish has received a visiting research fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society.  The grant will support one month of research at the Society in Worcester, MA.  Her "Drawn to Art" Fellowship support research on American art, visual culture, and other projects that will make substantial use of graphic materials as primary sources. 

March 8, 2017
"Beyond Painting" class at the Saint Louis Art Museum

Beyond Painting is a seminar taught by two Saint Louis Art Museum curators, Dr. Judith Mann and Dr. Elizabeth Wyckoff. The course is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Learning to See: Renaissance and Baroque Masterworks from the Phoebe Dent Weil and Mark S. Weil Collection. In every class, students have the unique opportunity to engage in close-looking with the museum's rich collection of prints and sculpture in order to gain a better understanding of Renaissance art.

February 6, 2017
Art History at CAA

Several members of the department will represent Washington University at this flagship art and art history conference.  Tola C Porter, PhD student, will deliver the paper "Reanimating the Possibilities of Affect in Henry Moore's The Arch, 1980," in the session "Exhibitions between Art and Design."  

December 19, 2016
Dr. Judith Mann, program alum, on NPR

Read Judith Mann's comments to NPR on the life and work of Artemisia Gentileschi here. 

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