Locating American Art: Finding Art''s Meaning in Museums, Colonial Period to the Present List of Illustrations Table: Art Museums Represented in the Anthology Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Contributors for Locating American Art Henry Adams , Ph.D., is a graduate of Harvard University and received his MA and Ph.D. from Yale, where he received the Frances Blanshard Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in art history.ãee He is the author of over 350 articles in the American field, both scholarly and popular, and of 14 books, including Eakins Revealed , which the painter Andrew Wyeth described as "without question the most extraordinary biography I have ever read on an artist."ãee In June 2010 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Cleveland Arts Prize. Adrienne Baxter Bell , Ph.
D., is Associate Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, New York. Her scholarship focuses on nineteenth-century American art and its resonances in contemporary art. She is the author of several studies on George Inness, including George Inness and the Visionary Landscape (2003) and George Inness: Writings and Reflections on Art and Philosophy (2007). Her interest in the role of embodiment in art is reflected in her essay "Body-Nature-Paint: Embodying Experience in Gilded Age American Landscape Painting," published in The Cultured Canvas: New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting (2012). Emily C. Burns, Ph.D.
, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Auburn University. Her research considers visual culture and transatlantic exchange between France and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She received her doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis. Her projects have been supported by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Baird Library Society of Fellows, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, and the Walter Read Hovey Memorial Foundation. Sandra Cheng , Ph.D., is an assistant professor of art history at New York City College of Technology/City University of New York.
She has received the Metropolitan Museum of Art''s Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship and the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon Fellowship from the Library of Congress. Her research interests include the history of collecting, drawing and studio practice; the history of monstrosity; and the history of photography. She is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who fled China during the Cultural Revolution. Kimberlee Cloutier Blazzard , Ph.D., is the communications manager at the Sargent House Museum.ãee She currently serves as founding editor and publisher at Open Inquiry Archive, an independent, curated site for the e-publication of scholarly occasional papers. An independent scholar, she taught art history at Boston area colleges for fifteen years and has published on topics related to Northern European and American art.
ãee She received her M.A. and her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Virginia. Traci Costa completed her M.A. in art and architectural history at Roger Williams University in the spring 2015.
She received her B.A. in art therapy from Emmanuel College in 2010. After completing her undergraduate degree, she was an intern in art education at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH. She has held positions in public programming at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art and at the Gallery Night Providence Organization. Her master''s thesis focuses on the relationship between art and philosophy through the reinterpretation of works by nineteenth-century African American artist Edward Mitchell Bannister.ãee Constance L. Cutler is the curator for the Peru Community Schools Fine Art Gallery in Peru, Indiana.
ãee She is a graduate of Purdue University, and has worked with the collection for several years.ãee She originated the Arts Alive! program, which uses the art collection for educational purposes for Peru Community Schools and surrounding areas. Miguel de Baca , Ph.D., is the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Lake Forest College, where he is the chair of the American Studies program and an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History. He earned his Ph.D. degree in American Studies from Harvard University in 2009, and has held research fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Dumbarton Oaks.
His scholarly interests include issues of memory, reference, and abstraction in modern and contemporary American art, and he is the author of a book on the Minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt, forthcoming in 2016. Cynthia Fowler , Ph.D. is Professor of Art at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA. Her scholarship centers around American art in the first half of the twentieth century with an focus on textiles and women''s artistic production. Her book Hooked Rugs: Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design (Ashgate) was published in 2013. She has received fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, the Winterthur Museum, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design. She received her Ph.
D. from the University of Delaware in 2002. Herbert R. Hartel, Jr. , Ph.D,. is an art historian and specialist in twentieth century American painting and sculpture.ãee He has presented papers and published articles on Raymond Jonson, Arthur Dove, Agnes Martin, Philip Evergood, Georgia O''Keeffe and Clyfford Still.
ãee Currently, he is Adjunct Associate Professor of Art History at Hofstra University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.ãee He has also taught art history atãeeParsons School of Design, Baruch College, York College, Pratt Institute and Fordham University.ãee He received his Ph.D. in modern and American art history from the CUNY Graduate Center.ãee Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she teaches classes on modern, contemporary, and American art.ãee She earned her Ph.D.
in art history and American studies from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her recent publications include "''Train up a child in the way he should go:'' the image of idealized childhood in the slavery debate, 1850-1870" in James Marten, ed. Children and Youth in the Civil War Era (New York University Press, 2012) and "''The Earlier, Wilder Image:'' Early Artists of the American West" in Gordon Bakken, ed. The World of the American West (Routledge, 2011). Lara Kuykendall , Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Art History at Ball State University where she teaches courses on American art, the history of photography, museum studies, and art criticism and theory. She holds a Ph.
D. in American art from the University of Kansas. Her research explores issues of national identity in American visual culture of the 1930s and 1940s and examines ways in which artists used heroic imagery to understand and critique the changing social and political fabric of the United States. Jessica Marten is Curator in Charge/Curator of American Art at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. She specializes in American art of the early twentieth century and oversees the Gallery''s American art from the colonial to contemporary, African, Oceanic, Native American, and Ancient American collections. Her exhibition and catalog, Art for the People: Carl W. Peters and the Rochester WPA Murals (2015) highlights preparatory studies by Carl W. Peters for extant Works Progress Administration murals in Rochester.
Jessica Murphy , Ph.D, specializes in American art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware and wrote her dissertation on American Modernism and the female artists of the Stieglitz Circle. She has worked as a research associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she contributed to the publications Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O''Keeffe and The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925 , and as a curatorial assistant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She currently works in audience engagement at the Brooklyn Museum and gives gallery lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.ãee Sara Picard , Ph.
D., is Assistant Professor of art history at Rhode Island College. She held a Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art for the first critical study of antebellum New Orleans artist Jules Lion and is currently extending this research for a book on the history of mixed black and white race Americans in visual culture. Her writing has appeared in the SECAC Review ,ãee The Journal of Southern History , and Louisiana History . Erika Schneider is Associate Professor of Art History at Framingham State University where she teaches courses in modern, contemporary, and American art history.ãee She received her Ph.D. from Temple University.
ãee Her dissertation, a revised version which is under contract for publication, investigates the representation of the struggling artist in antebellum America.ãee She has published chapters in books, including "Talisman for the Symbolist Movement: Puvis de Chavannes'' Hope " (2009), and "Against the Tide: Paul Gauguin''s Watery Women and Their Symbolist Legacy" (2010), considers the role of American artists in the Symbolist movement. She received an inaugural Fulbright-Terra Foundation Award in the History of American Art to teach in the Netherlands in fall 2015. Laura E. Smith , Ph.D., is an assistant professor of art history at Michigan State University and affiliated facu.