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EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Ph. D, History of Art, 2000
Major Field: Seventeenth-Century Art
Minor Fields: American Art, European Art 1830-1930
Dissertation: “Female Art Collecting and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century
Britain”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Helen Hills
FOLGER INSTITUTE, FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY, Washington, D.C.
Seminar “Researching the Renaissance,” Fall 1995
COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, England
M.A., History of Art, 1988.
Special Subject: Painting in France and Britain in the 1860s
Thesis: “British Critical Responses to French Landscape Painting, 1854-75”
Advisor: Dr. John House
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Connecticut
B. A., History of Art, 1985.
Area of concentration: European and American painting and photography, 1850-1950
Senior Essay: “Eakins and Cassatt”
PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART, YALE UNIVERSITY, London, England
Spring Semester, 1984.
Courses in seventeenth-century British architecture, literature, history
PUBLICATIONS
“Si(gh)ting the Mistress of the House: Anne Clifford and Architectural Space,” in Women as Sites of Culture: Women’s Roles in Cultural Formation from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century, ed. Susan Shifrin, Ashgate Press, 2002.
“’Repaired by me to my exceeding great Cost and Charges:’Anne Clifford and the Uses of Architecture,” in Gender and Architecture in Early Modern Europe, ed. Helen Hills, Ashgate Press (forthcoming in 2003).
“The Countess of Arundel at Tart Hall,” in The Evolution of English
Collecting, ed. Edward Chaney, Yale University Press (forthcoming spring 2003.)
“Fashioning an American Diplomat: The Mather Brown Portrait of Thomas
Jefferson,”
Dress (journal of the Costume Society of America), forthcoming in 2003.
MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
“Framing the West at Monticello: Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” brochure to accompany exhibition, Monticello, 2003.
"Fenollosa, Dow, Tack, and Phillips: A Case for ‘Subjective’ Painting in America," essay in exhibition catalogue, Augustus Vincent Tack: Landscape of the Spirit, Washington, D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 1993, 67-73.
"Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Biographical Highlights," in Roger Shattuck, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, and Belinda Rathbone, Two Lives: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, New York: Callaway Editions/HarperCollins, 1992, 119-125.
“Two Lives: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz,” brochure to accompany exhibition, The Phillips Collection, 1992, co-authored with Elizabeth Hutton Turner.
"Duncan Phillips and the School of Paris: Chronology of Acquisitions, Exhibitions and Writings," in Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Duncan Phillips Collects: Paris Between the Wars, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 1991, 51-62.
“Chronology” in Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Winslow Homer, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
Women Artists, one in a series of booklets highlighting aspects of the permanent collection of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1986.
ACADEMIC PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
“The Meanings of Artisan Mannerism: Nicholas Stone at Tart Hall,”
at conference
“Re-Constructing British Classicism: New Approaches in Eighteenth-Century
Architecture,” Victoria & Albert Museum, London, July 4-5, 2003
(forthcoming).
"'My own Picture...to Give Away Amongst My Friends': Women and Portraits
in Seventeenth-Century England," College Art Association Conference,
Philadelphia, February 2002.
“Purselin and Pantadoes: Spaces of Exoticism in Lady Arundel’s
Tart Hall,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Philadelphia,
November 17, 2001.
“Fashioning an American Diplomat: The Mather Brown Portrait of Thomas Jefferson,” 2001 Winterthur Conference, “Conversations about Costume and the Visual Arts,” Winterthur Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE, October 19, 2001, with Gaye Wilson.
“‘Storied’ Women: Rereading and Reviewing Constructions
of Identity in
Early Modern Portraits of Women,” workshop, “Attending to Early
Modern Women: Gender, Culture, and Change,” University of Maryland,
November 9, 2000, with Susan Shifrin and Brandie Siegfried.
“’Catholic in all but outward profession’: The Countess of Arundel at Tart Hall,” Women Art Patrons and Collectors: Past and Present, New York Public Library, New York, New York, March 18, 1999
“’The Old Waste Places’: Anne Clifford and the Uses of Architecture,” Historians of British Art Annual Meeting, College Art Association, Los Angeles, California, February 13, 1999 (session held at Huntington Library)
“Lady Arundel’s ‘Casino at Whitehall’,” North American Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 16, 1998
“The Countess of Arundel, Collector,” History of Collecting Research Centre, Southampton Institute, Southampton, England, July 18, 1998
“’The Countess of Arundel at Tart Hall,” Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1998
“Lady Arundel and the Gender of Collecting,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, December 5, 1997
“Lady Anne Clifford: Gender and the Use of Architectural Space,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1996
“On the ‘Meanings’ of the Double Cube Room,” 11th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 13, 1996
“The Collection of the Comtesse de Verrue,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Austin, Texas, March 29, 1996
“Wilton House And Van Dyck’s Pembroke Family Portrait: Conflict And Compromise,” Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, October 8, 1995
“Assemblage Exquis: The Collection of the Comtesse de Verrue,” Conference: Art and Domesticity: Renaissance to Modern,” Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 4, 1995
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Instructor (sabbatical replacement), Department of Art, Davidson
College, Davidson, North Carolina, Spring 1997
Survey of Western Art (prehistory to contemporary)
Emphasis on developing basic skills in viewing and interpreting works of art
and on understanding ideas expressed in visual form. Students were required
to write papers on works of art in the Davidson College collection and in
the Mint Museum in Charlotte.
Gender in the History of Art
Beginning with a general discussion of gender, this course analyzed the representation
of the female body, women as artists, and women as patrons.
Instructor, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
American Art, Fall 1999
Survey of painting, architecture, sculpture, and photography produced in the
United States from the colonial period (ca. 1650) to the mid 20th century.
Included study sessions with works of American art in the Ackland Art Museum.
Women in the Visual Arts, Summer 1996 (cross-listed as Women’s Studies)
For description see above.
Art Patronage in the Courts of Seventeenth-Century Europe, Spring 1996
Survey of painting, architecture, and sculpture produced in Western Europe
from the end of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth.
Primary consideration given to the social, political, and religious contexts
in which the works of art were commissioned and produced and art’s functions
in a court society.
Survey of Western Art II, guest lecturer for Baroque art, January and February
1996
Five lectures: “Art in the Service of the Church: Rome, the Counter-Reformation
and the Baroque,” “Art in the Service of Kingship: Patronage at
the Courts of Seventeenth-Century Spain, England, and France,” “Collecting
and the Politics of Display,” “Artist/Impresario/Genius,”
“Urbanism: Architecture and Power”
American Art, Summer 1995
Survey of painting, architecture, sculpture, and photography produced in the
United States from the colonial period (ca. 1650) to the mid 20th century.
Included a field trip to a federal period house and a study session with American
works on paper in the Ackland Art Museum.
Survey of Western Art II, Summer 1994
Renaissance to contemporary. Students were required to give a presentation
in front of a work in the Ackland Art Museum.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Survey of Western Art I and II, Spring 1994 and Fall 1994
Survey of Modern Art, Fall 1993
Responsible for leading two discussion sections per week and for grading.
Instructor, Independent Studies, Division of Continuing Education, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summer 1997 to Summer 1998
Survey of Western Art I
Graded assignments for “distance learners”: students taking course
by correspondence.
Lecturer, 18th Summer Seminar for Women, High Point University, High Point,
North Carolina, July, 1995
Gender and the Visual Arts – see above for description
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
Associate Curator of Collections, Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Foundation,
Charlottesville, Virginia, January 2000 to present.
Responsible for research and interpretation of house and its contents. Current
projects include the recreation of Jefferson’s “Indian Hall”
for the 2003 bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and reinterpretation
of the kitchen and other domestic service areas.
Assistant Curator, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., January 1990-May
1993.
Worked with Chief Curator and Associate Curator in all endeavors of Curatorial
Department, including organization of special exhibitions and presentation
of permanent collection.
Responsible for: “Honoré Daumier: Works on Paper” and eight
contemporary outdoor sculpture exhibitions. Assisted with: “Nicolas
de Staèl in America,” (June 1990), “Men of the Rebellion:
The Eight and Their Associates at The Phillips Collection,” (September
1990), “Duncan Phillips Collects: Paris Between the Wars,” (September
1991), “Two Lives: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz,”(December
1992), “Augustus Vincent Tack” (April 1993), “Jacob Lawrence's
Migration Series”(September 1993).
Exhibitions Assistant, Department of American Art, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., May 1989-January 1990.
For the Curator of American Art, performed research pertaining to exhibitions
being organized or coordinated by the department, including “American
Paintings from the Manoogian Collection,” “Frederic Edwin Church,”
“John Twachtman: Connecticut Landscapes,” “George Caleb
Bingham,” “John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo,” “James
McNeill Whistler,” and “Winslow Homer.”
Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography, National Museum of American
Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., July 1988-April 1989.
For Curator of Photography, assisted with all aspects of mounting of exhibition
“Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray.” Oversaw production of checklist
manuscript, wall labels, and extended label copy. Wrote wall text. Organized
international symposium to address issues of dada and surrealism in America
- December 3, 1989. Served as liaison with print and broadcast media, with
the artist's estate in Paris, and with museums participating in exhibition's
tour .
Curatorial Assistant, Department of Graphic Arts, National Museum of American
Art, March 1986 - August 1987.
Catalogued prints, drawings, and photographs. Assisted with preparation of
permanent collection installations.
Research Assistant, Office of the Director, National Museum of American Art,
September 1985-February 1986.
Researched and wrote twelve page booklet discussing selected works by women
artists in the museum's permanent collection. Conducted research for director,
special assistant to director and chief curator and provided support work
on acquisitions, exhibitions, publications.
Intern, Office of the Director, National Museum of American Art, Summer 1985
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND PRIZES
Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship, Royster Society of Fellows, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, academic year 1998-99. Highest honor bestowed on graduate students by the university.
Travel Fellowship, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University: for research in Britain, fall semester 1997
Off-Campus Dissertation Grant, Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: for research in Britain, fall semester 1996
Clemens E. Sommer Prize, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: research travel grant for 1996-7 academic year
Research Award, Allcott Art Research Fund, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: for travel to American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Austin, Texas, March, 1996
Folger Consortium Grant-In-Aid, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.: for weekly travel to seminar, fall semester 1995
Non-Service Awards for Ph.D. exam preparation, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: spring and fall 1995
Foushee Art Student Travel Award, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: for travel to present paper at conference at Princeton University, March 1995
Teaching Assistantships, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1993-94 academic year, fall 1994
MUSEUM LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
“The Collection of the Comtesse de Verrue,” public lecture, Theater Art Gallery, High Point, NC, March 1, 1995
"View of the Farnese Gardens: Corot in Italy," gallery talk, The Phillips Collection, November 5, 1992
"Phillip Guston's Native's Return: Abstract Impressionism and American Painting of the 1950s," gallery talk, The Phillips Collection, May 7, 1992
"Daumier's Lithographs: Art and Social Satire in Nineteenth-Century Paris," gallery talk, The Phillips Collection, January 16, 1992
"James Abbott McNeill Whistler and his Portrait of Miss Lillian Woakes," gallery talk, The Phillips Collection, August 1, 1991
“The Art of the Frame,” Moderator of symposium, The Phillips Collection, March 23, 1991
“Imagination and the Creative Process,” Panel Discussion with Washington, D.C. artists William Christenberry, Willem de Looper, Robin Rose, and Andrea Way, Moderator, The Phillips Collection, December 7, 1990
“A Conversation with Dorothy Dehner,” public program, The Phillips Collection, April 1990
LANGUAGES
French - written and oral proficiency
German - written proficiency
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
College Art Association
Historians of British Art
North American Conference on British Studies
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Society of Early Americanists
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