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Appointed 1997, Program in Art History |
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Ph.D., Yale University, 1982
M.Phil., Yale University, 1980
M.A., Yale University, 1978
B.A., Vassar College, 1975 |
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Recent Courses |
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AHI 1C: Baroque to Modern Art |
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AHI 110: Cultural History of Museums |
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AHI 188A: The American Home |
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AHI 188B: Architecture in the United States |
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AHI 188D: American Painting and Sculpture to 1860 |
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AHI 188E: American Painting and Sculpture 1860-1945 |
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AHI 190D: Undergraduate Proseminar. Historiography of American
Art |
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AHI 200B: Research and Writing Methods in Art History |
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AHI 250: Issues in Realism: Thomas Eakins |
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AHI 250: Issues in Romanticism |
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Recent Publications |
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Books |
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American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 at the Carnegie Museum
of Art, Pittsburgh (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1992) |
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Articles and essays |
"Catharine Beecher and the American Woman's Puritan Home," The New England Quarterly (Boston: New england Quarterly) September 2009 |
"Style, Symbols, and Persuasion: Leland Stanford's Sacramento Ball of 1872," Decorative Arts (New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts) 15, no. 2 (Spring-Summer 2008): 65-95 |
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"Andrew Carnegie's Art Museum for the Masses," Journal of
the History of Collections (Oxford University Press)
2003 |
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"The Millionaire's Palace: Leland Stanford's Commission for Pottier
& Stymus in San Francisco," Winterthur Portfolio (University
of Chicago Press) 36, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 213-243 |
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"Washington Allston: Great Painting as Mute Poetry," in Redefining
American History Painting, ed. Patricia Burnham and Lucretia
Giese (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995): 139-157 |
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The Visual Rhetoric of the Stanfords' Sacramento Home," Stanford
University Museum of Art Journal, 25 (1995): 13-24 |
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(contributor) The Taft Museum: Its History and Collections,
ed.Edward J. Sullivan (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1995) |
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(contributor) Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of
American Art, ed. Irene S. Sweetkind (New York: Harry N. Abrams,
1994) |
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"Washington Allston's Beatrice," Journal of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, 6 (1994): 63- 75 |
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"An Atelier of Drawings: the Collection at the Carnegie
Museum of Art," Drawing, 13 (July 1991): 25-28 |
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"Educating the Water-Colourist", Carnegie Magazine,
62 (Nov. 1990): 12-17, 42-44 |
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Exhibition catalogues
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The Great English Vortex: Modern Drawings form the Collection
of Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Wilsey, (San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, 1993) |
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(contributor) The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the
Italian Experience, 1760-1914, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts,
1992) winner of the Minda de Gunzburg Prize for best museum publication
about Europe |
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In the Watercolor Tradition: British Works on Paper form the
Mellon Bank Collection, (Pittsburgh: The Carnegie Museum of
Art, 1990) |
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(contributor) American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River
School, exhibition catalogue (New York: Metropolitan Museum
of Art, 1987) |
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