Current Scholars   |
Carolyn Kastner
Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts
Ph.D.: Stanford University
Project: “Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: An American Modernist”
Dates: June through August 2008
Christopher Reed
Professor, Lake Forest College
Ph.D.: Yale University
Project: “Bachelor Japanists”
Dates: October 2007 through May 2008
Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Honorary Scholar)
University Professor, University of Virginia
Ph.D.: University of Virginia
Project: “O'Keeffe and Abstraction ”
Dates: June through mid-August 2008
Jonathan Walz
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland at College Park
Ph.D.: University of Maryland at College Park (in progress)
Project: “Abstract Portraiture and the American Avant-garde, 1912-1927”
Dates: September 2007 through August 2008
Jonathan Weinberg (Honorary Scholar)
Independent Scholar
Ph.D.: Harvard University
Project: "Painting and Photography in American Art: Sources, Ideas, and Influences, 1890s to the Present"
Dates: June through August 2008 |
| 2007 - 2008 Scholars |
Elizabeth Bischof
Assistant Professor, University of Southern Maine
Ph.D.: Boston College
Project: “Mentoring a Movement: F. Holland Day, Alfred Stieglitz and the Development of American Art Photography”
Dates: September through December 2007
Carolyn Kastner
Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts
Ph.D.: Stanford University
Project: “Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: An American Modernist”
Dates: June through August 2008
Christopher Reed
Professor, Lake Forest College
Ph.D.: Yale University
Project: “Bachelor Japanists”
Dates: October 2007 through May 2008
Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Honorary Scholar)
University Professor, University of Virginia
Ph.D.: University of Virginia
Project: “O'Keeffe and Abstraction ”
Dates: June through mid-August 2008
Jonathan Walz
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland at College Park
Ph.D.: University of Maryland at College Park (in progress)
Project: “Abstract Portraiture and the American Avant-garde, 1912-1927”
Dates: September 2007 through August 2008
Jonathan Weinberg (Honorary Scholar)
Independent Scholar
Ph.D.: Harvard University
Project: "Painting and Photography in American Art: Sources, Ideas, and Influences, 1890s to the Present"
Dates: June through August 2008 |
| 2006 - 2007 Scholars |
Meredith Paige Davis
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Ph.D.: Columbia University
Project: “Fool's Gold: American Trompe l'oeil Painting in the Gilded Age”
Dates: February 1 to July 31, 2007
Julia Kathryn Dolan
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, Boston University
Ph.D.: Boston University (in progress)
Project: “'I will Take You into the Hear of Modern Industry': Lewis Hine's Photographic Interpretation of the Machine Age”
Dates: April 1 to August 24, 2007
John P. Heon
Ph.D. Candidate, English Department, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania (in progress)
Project: “Articulate Art: Language, Literature and Linguistics in the Works of Bruce Nauman”
Dates: September 18, 2006 to August 24, 2007
Karen Rogers Noriega
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Binghamton University
Ph.D.: Binghamton University
Project: “The Influence of Modern American Grids on the Complexities and Experience of Place in New Mexico”
Dates: September 5 to December 31, 2006
Kimberly Norma Pinder
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ph.D.: Yale University
Project: “Murals in African American Churches on Chicago's South Side”
Dates: May 31 to August 24, 2007
Michelangelo Sabatino
Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston
Ph.D.: University of Toronto
Project: “'Primitivism" and the Modern Home”
Dates: June 1 to August 24, 2007 |
| 2005 - 2006 Scholars |
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Assistant Professor, Division of Liberal Arts, Rhode Island School of Design
Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley
Project: “Art Works: American Artistic Labor in the Vietnam War Era, 1965-1975.”
Ondine Chavoya
Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Williams College
Ph.D.: University of Rochester
Project: “Orphans of Modernism: Chicano Art, Public Representation, and Spatial Practice in Southern California.”
Patricia Hills
Professor, Art History Department, Boston University
Ph.D.: New York University
Project: “Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence.”
Lois Rudnick
Professor, Director, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts
Ph.D.: Brown University
Project: “Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism.”
Sue Taylor
Associate Professor, Department of Art, Portland State University
Ph.D.: University of Chicago
Project: “Grant Wood: Beyond Regionalism.”
Daniel Worden
Dept. of English & American Literature, Brandeis University
Ph.D.: Brandeis University (in progress)
Project: “Urban Cowboys and Rural Reds: The Production of Masculinity in Modern American Fiction.” |
| 2004 - 2005 Scholars |
Elizabeth West Hutchinson
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University
Ph.D.: Stanford University
Project: “The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in America, 1890-1914”
Dates: November-June 2005
Elizabeth Hutchinson’s project examines the "Indian Craze": a passion for collecting, displaying, and emulating Native American art that lasted from the late 19th century through the years of World War I. During this time, Native handicrafts were exhibited by museums, art societies, department stores, and International Expositions and used extensively in mainstream art schools and design manuals. Examining the contributions of both Anglo and Native artists, critics and theorists, Hutchinson argues that the "Indian Craze" was a transcultural phenomenon that allowed members of both groups to develop modern approaches to art and cultural identity; while Anglo artists saw Native art as the basis of a national school of modernism, Indian people used this interest to agitate for greater acceptance of their culture.
Carrie Lambert
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
Ph.D.: Stanford University
Project: “The Seeing Difficulty”: Yvonne Rainer and American Art in the 1960’s
Dates: July-August 2005
Carrie Lambert will be working on “The Seeing Difficulty”: Yvonne Rainer and American Art in the 1960s, which will be the first book on the performance career of the influential choreographer, artist, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. By tracing through the 1960s Rainer's use of the human body to revise conventions of spectatorship--from the early days of Judson Dance Theater, through Minimalism, to the political and feminist art of the early 1970s--the book will offer a new history of American art’s orientation toward the viewer in this watershed period.
Emily Ballew Neff
Curator American Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Ph.D.: University of Texas at Austin
Project: “The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950”
Dates: November 1-19, July 5-August 12
Emily Ballew Neff is curator of American painting and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. At the O'Keeffe Museum and Research Center, Neff will continue to develop, conduct research, and continue writing the catalogue for an exhibition project titled “The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950.” This exhibition will explore the role played by the West in the development of American modernism through 110 paintings, watercolors, photographs and, where thematically and aesthetically relevant, American Indian art.
Kristin Ann Schwain
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Ph.D.: Stanford University
Project: “Signs of Grace: Religious Experience, Visual Practice, and Modernist American Art”
Dates: September 2004-July 2005
" Signs of Grace: Religious Experience, Visual Practice, and Modernist American Art" examines the early history of modern art to excavate the central role religion played in its development. It shows the manifold ways four American artists - Henry Ossawa Tanner, F. Holland Day. Abbott Handerson Thayer, and Thomas Eakins - turned to religious beliefs and practices to construct modern aesthetic experience. Moreover, it explores the social implications of modernist ways of seeing on strategies of African-American uplift, new formulations of gender and sexuality, models of cultural authority, and on social relations in turn-of-the-century America more generally.
Isabelle Loring Wallace
Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Department of the History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
Ph.D.: Bryn Mawr College
Project: “Signification and Subject: The Art of Jasper Johns”
Dates: June-August 2005
This project will consider work produced by contemporary American painter Jasper Johns, linking his work to broader philosophical questions concerning the nature of authorship, signification and the relationship between representation and mortality. An attempt is also made to situate Johns' work within its proper historical and cultural context, bearing in mind that the artist’s career begins at a moment that witnesses the emergence of postmodernism, as well as the not unrelated discovery of DNA in 1953.
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| 2003 - 2004 Scholars |
Bill Anthes
Assistant Professor, Art Department, University of Memphis
Project: “Native Moderns”
Dates: September 2003 – May 2004
Anthes is preparing a book, “Native Moderns” in which he will explore the work of a small group of Native American painters and sculptors who were working after World War II and broke from the "art traditions" of their own culture to embrace and develop individual modernist styles. He will demonstrate how issues of identity, citizenship, cultural property, and sovereignty shape and are fundamental to an understanding of postwar American modernist culture.
Alan C. Braddock
Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University
Project: “Displacing Orientalism: Thomas Eakins and Ethnographic Modernity”
Dates: January 2004 – May 2004
Braddock will be examining the art of Thomas Eakins in relation to evolving anthropological conceptions of race and culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Special focus is on Eakins's 1895 portrait of, and friendship with, anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, whose unprecedented fieldwork at Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico laid the foundation for modern cultural anthropology.
Greg Forter
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of South Carolina
Project: “Melancholy Manhood: Gender Loss, and the Inability to Mourn in American Literacy Modernism”
Dates: September 2003 – August 2004
Forter’s project investigates gender, capitalism, and strategies of grieving in American literary modernism. The study concentrates on how the spread of monopoly capitalism between 1890 and 1920 gave rise to changes in the sex/gender system; how several male modernist writers experienced these changes as a profound loss; and how what they wrote reveals and seeks to resolve their conflicted responses to this issue.
Theresa Leininger-Miller
Associate Professor, Art History/School of Art, University of Cincinnati
Project: “Sculpting the New Negro: The Life and Work of Augusta Savage (1892-1962)”
Dates: June 2004 – August 2004
Theresa Leininger-Miller will be working on a book, “Sculpting the New Negro: The Life and Work of Augusta Savage (1892-1962),” which will be the first monograph on one of the key leaders in the visual arts of the New Negro Movement, and it will establish Savage’s place within and significance to the history of American Modernism.
Linda Kim
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Project: “Somatotypes: Race and Materiality in Early Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Photography”
Dates: September 2003 – May 2004
In her dissertation, Kim investigates Malvina Hoffman’s “Races of Mankind,” an American sculpture series representing racial types for a natural history museum in the 1930s, and the particular qualities that made sculpture more apt at embodying race than either plaster mannequins or photography.
Mark Andrew White
Assistant Professor, Art Department, Oklahoma State University
Project: “Selling Abstraction: American Non-Objectivity in the 1930’s”
Dates: September 2003 – August 2004
White's research examines non-objective American art of the 1930s and the strategies abstractionists used to court the attention of indifferent critics and a hostile public. Areas of investigation include the American Abstract Artists, the Transcendental Painting Group, and the Williamsburg Housing Project. |
| 2002 - 2003 Scholars |
Christina Grace Cogdell
Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Project: "Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s"
Dates: Jan - Aug 2003
Guest curator of exhibition (title above)
Cogdell's work explores the interactions between ideology and visual culture in the rise of U.S. industrial design during the 1920s and 1930s, examining multiple correlations between eugenic thought and the streamline style.
Audrey Goodman
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Georgia State University
Project: "Exploring Culture from the Modernist Southwest"
Dates: Sept 2002 - June 2003
Goodman's project investigates how the production and circulation of art and folklore in New Mexico reveal the central paradox of a period and place caught between enforced migration and willed regionalism.
Heather Elizabeth Hole
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art, Princeton University
Project: "(Re)Constructing American Art: Marsden Hartley and the New Mexico Landscape, 1918-1925"
Dates: June - Aug 2003
Hole's dissertation will investigate Hartley's New Mexico art and writings. She will argue that Hartley's New Mexico works and their internal contradictions reveal a rich, complex, and hitherto underestimated attempt to construct a personal and national identity in the face of private loss and cultural upheaval.
Carolyn Winnifred Butler Palmer
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Pittsburgh
Project: "Interfaces: The Pop, Politics and Portraiture of David Neel and Andy Warhol"
Dates: Sept 2002 - April 2003
Palmer centers her discussion on explaining the following paradox: the art of Neel and Warhol shares formal properties, methodological techniques, and excerpts from the other's culture, and yet, each still expresses culturally distinct ideas.
Bett Kristine Schumacher
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art Department, Johns Hopkins University
Project: "Helen Frankenthaler's Modernism: Embodiment and Pictorial Ambiguity, 1950-1965"
Dates: Sept 2002 - Aug 2003
Through analyses of American painter Helen Frankenthaler's training, artistic practice, critical reception, and intellectual circle, Schumacher's dissertation will provide a fully articulated and sustained explanation of Frankenthaler's aesthetic enterprise.
Ann Prentice Wagner
Ph.D. Candidate, Art History & Archeology, University of Maryland
Project: "Living on Paper: The Culture of Drawing in the Stieglitz Circle, 1903-1925"
Dates: Jan - March 2003
In her dissertation, Wagner will study the new culture of drawing that arose in the Alfred Stieglitz Circle in the early twentieth century. Ms. Wagner will focus her inquiry on the critical impact of works by Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin, the most important graphic artists Stieglitz exhibited.
Mary N. Woods
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University
Project: "Learning to See the 'New' New York: Place and Photography in New York City: 1890-1950"
Dates: May - July 2003
Woods' project will demonstrate how artists, amateurs, journalists, and documentarians contributed to the visual canon of architectural histories of seeing the "new" New York from 1890 until 1950 and thus expanded them to include things other than the usual and conventional photographs of buildings. |
| 2001 - 2002 Scholars |
Kathleen Pyne
Associate Professor, Art History, University of Notre Dame
Project: "Modernism and the Feminine Voice: The Search for Woman in Art"
Dates: Sept 2001 - July 2002
The study concentrates on six women artists during their years working in New York, 1900-1930, in order to understand how these women artists of the Stieglitz circle each differently engaged the practices and beliefs of artistic Modernism. Women artists to be included in this research are: Georgia O'Keeffe, Pamela Colman Smith, Gertrude Kasebier, Anne Brigman, Katharine Rhoades, Rebecca Salsbury Strand.
Mike Weaver
Co-Editor, History of Photography (Taylor & Francis, London)
Project: "Theory and Practice of the Equivalent in the Stieglitz-O'Keeffe Circle"
Dates: Sept 2001 - Jan 2002
Dr. Weaver's project attempts to pursue the development of the theory of "Equivalence" in American Modernism, with special reference to Stieglitz and O'Keeffe, but also in the context of Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley. He will trace in detail Stieglitz's understanding of the Equivalent in relation to the theories of G. Albert Aurier and Maurice Denis, as reflected in Gaugin and Van Gogh and mediated in the Stieglitz circle by Marius de Zayas.
Terri Weissman
Ph.D. Candidate, Art & Humanities, Columbia University
Project: "SuperSight: The Photography of Berenice Abbott"
Dates: Sept 2001 - March 2002
Ms. Weissman's dissertation is about the complexity of Abbot's deceptively simple belief that photography should provide the general public with realistic images of a changing world. It is about understanding Abbott's idea of realism, of analyzing why she made some very unfashionable artistic choices, and about exploring how her commitment to a realistic aesthetic led her to photograph science-based subject matter.
Anne Hammond (Honorary Recipient)
Co-Editor, History of Photography (Taylor & Francis, London)
Dr. Hammond is accompanying Dr. Weaver.
Dates: Sept 2001 - Jan 2002
Dr. Hammond will write about Ansel Adams, commemorating his trip to Yosemite with O'Keeffe in 1938. Her book on Ansel Adams will be published by Yale University Press in Spring 2002.
Daniel H. Peck (Honorary Recipient)
John Guy Vassar Professor of English and Director of Environmental Studies, Vassar College
Project: "Changing Conceptions of Landscape in American Literature and Painting, 1830-1930"
Dates: Feb 2002 - August 2002
The book proceeds through a set of paintings of American writers and landscape painters with deep commitments to "beauty" (as an idea and a value) embodied in landscape. While much of the study is devoted to the nineteenth century (it begins with James Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Cole), it arrives finally at the dawning of the twentieth century by representing this era as one in which-under the influence of early pragmatist philosophers such as George Santayana and William James-beauty undergoes a transformation, and shedding certain aspects of its conservatism, finds new avenues for its expression. Exemplifying this transformation are Georgia O'Keeffe and the writer and art critic John C. Van Dyke. Like O'Keeffe, Van Dyke came early in the new century to celebrate two new American landscapes, that of the west and that of the modern city. |