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.
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.
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.
Dr. Wallace was nominated by the Dean of Arts & Sciences for this celebrated award. To read more about the honor, click here.
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.
You can access the article, "Why Is the Art World Divided over Gauguin's Legacy?" here.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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."
Read Judith Mann's comments to NPR on the life and work of Artemisia Gentileschi here.
In an international symposium devoted to new research on Henri Matisse, held at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia October 14-15, Professor John Klein delivered a paper on the ontological fluidity of Matisse's paper cut-outs entitled "Ultimate Method or Ultimate Materials?" His presentation may be viewed here. Dr Klein begins at 6hr 27min.
Doctor Wallace was recently in Florence (October 2016) to help inaugurate the newly renovated Botticelli rooms in the Uffizi Gallery funded by the philanthropic group, Friends of Florence.
Professor Klein will present the paper "Ranking Decoration," about modern decorative arts as an avant-garde strategy, in the quadrennial International Congress of the History of Art (CIHA) to be held in Beijing in September. PhD candidate Heather Read will also attend the Congress, as the guest of the National Committee for the History of Art (US) and the CIHA-China Secretariat.
Professor Childs will be contributing her expertise to a symposium at the Van Gogh Museum entitled,"On the Verge of Insanity: Van Gogh and his Illness." For more about the symposium, click here.
Professor Miller received a Faculty Research Grant for summer 2016, which supported ongoing research at the New York Public Library into the papers of Lincoln Kirstein. This allowed her to continue the research she conducted at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, at the National Gallery in Washington in 2015-2016. She also interviewed a number of Kirstein's friends and associates for this project.
Professor Wallace visits Christo's "Floating Piers" installation at Lago Iseo in northern Italy, summer 2016 In Italy, Professor Wallace completed the manuscript for his new book provisionally titled, God's Architect: Michelangelo's Late Life and Art.
