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May 12, 2008
Faculty News
Professor Anne Helmreich has received a Getty Library Research Grant to study the London Goupil Gallery, and she has also been awarded a Harry Ransom Travel Grant to pursue research at the Ransom Center on the Carfax Gallery in London.
Professor Catherine Scallen has published, Julius Held and the Object of Art History, in Oud Holland, 120/3-4, 2007, 191-96.
Professor Catherine Scallen has given the following lectures:
"The Habsburgs: Princely Patrons of the Renaissance," Cleveland Museum of Art, April 2008. (In connection with the arms and armor show at the CMA)
"The Global Rembrandt," CIHA 2008 (International Congress of Art History), Melbourne, AUS, January 2008
"Americas Rembrandt," Symposium on Dutch art at CUNY Graduate Center New York, October 2007 in conjunction with the exhibition of Dutch art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tim Shuckerow (Director of Art Studio/Art Education) received the Judson Smart Living Award for his contributions to the fine arts in University Circle.
Alumni News
Bradley Bailey, Ph. D. 2004, published, "Fragmentation, Transformation, and Self-realization: Duchamp and the Formation of the Creative Imago," SOURCE: Notes in the History of Art, 27/2-3, Winter/spring 2008, 49-55.
Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Ph. D. 2007, will become curator of the art gallery at the University of Vermont in Burlington.
Susan Martis, Ph. D. 2005, has been offered a tenure track position at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Student News
Graduate Students
Theresa Bembnister, Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani, and Erin Valentine have been elected Graduate Art History Association (GAHA) representatives for 2008/2009.
Paula Burleigh will enter the doctoral program at CUNY in Fall 2008.
Arnaud Gerspacher will enter the doctoral program at CUNY in Fall 2008.
Alisa McCusker will enter the doctoral program at the University of Texas-Austin in Fall 2008 to study Northern European art with Professor Jeffrey Chips-Smith.
Lisa Volpe will enter the doctoral program at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008/2009.
Undergraduate Majors
Jason Huber won The Noah L. Butkin Award for the best term paper on an art history topic written by an undergraduate student for his paper "State of the Literature: Van Gogh's Religion and Spirituality."
Alexandra Lancaster King is the recipient of a Pancoast Award for travel to visit museums and galleries in Berlin.
Mary Manning will enter the Ph. D. program in art history at Rutgers University in the Fall 2008. She won The Muriel S. Butkin Art History Prize for overall best performance and highest grade point average by an undergraduate Art History major.
Margaret Roulett will be a summer intern at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C.
Karen Rubin will attend law school in the fall.
April 28, 2008
Awards:
Professor Ellen Landau has received the Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award for the best paper on an American art topic for her essay, "Double Consciousness in Mexico: How Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish Came to Paint a Morelian Mural," American Art, Spring 2007, 74-97.
Professor Anne Helmreich was awarded the 2008 J. Bruce Jackson, M.D. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring.
Articles:
Professor David Carrier has published, "Painting at the Beach: Impressionism, Henri Matisse, Graham Nickson," in the exhibition catalogue, Graham Nickson: Private Myths, Naples, FL:, 2007, pp. 16-23.
Conferences:
Professor Edward Olszewski read, "Bronzino's London Venus: A Lesson in Illicit Love," at the Conference on Venus and the Venereal: Interpretations and Representations from Classical Antiquity Through the Eighteenth Century at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University, 26 April 2008.
January 18, 2008
From Case Daily:
The Boston Globe named "Pollock Matters" at the McMullen Museum at Boston College one of the best exhibitions of 2007. Ellen Landau, the university's Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, was the curator. Related article
January 11, 2008
Prof. Henry Adams recently published “Vincent Campanella: Classical Abstractionist,” American Art Review, Vol, XIV, No. 5, September-October 2007, pp. 158-165;“Vincent Campanella,” principal essay in Vincent Campanella: Classical Abstractionist [exhibition catalogue], The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri, September 15-November 4, 1007, and Park University, Campanella Gallery, Parkville, Missouri, September 16-November 2, 2007, pp. 8-45; "Thomas Hart Benton’s Spring Tryout, 1944,” Altermann Galleries & Auctioneers, Auction, December 15, 2007, Session I, The Hilton of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, essay page 45;
“Charles Green Shaw, 1892-1874); a Portrait in Words,” text for Charles Green Shaw (1892-1974): The 1930s & 1940s, exhibition catalogue, D. Wigmore Fine Arts, Inc., 730 Fifth Avenue, Suite 602, New York, NY 10019, pp. 4-11.
Bradley Bailey (PhD 2004) has published"Rrose of Washington Square: Marcel Duchamp, Fanny Brice and the Jewish Origins of Rrose Selavy," SOURCE: Notes in the History of Art, 37/1, Fall 200739-45.
Prof.David Carrier has published "Two Representations in Contemporary Neapolitan Paintings of Masoniello's 1647 Revolt," SOURCE: Notes in the History of Art, 37/1, Fall 2007, 32-38.
Prof.Anne Helmreich was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Ohio Humanities Council to fund her Humanities Week 2008: Cityscape program for CWRU and the Baker-Nord Center. The program will explore ways in which the urban environment serves as a setting for artistic expression, architectural planning, and social change.
Prof. Ellen Landau (in collaboration with Claude Cernuschi) curated the exhibition and edited the catalogue Pollock Matters. Exhibition Sept. 1-Dec. 9, 2007 at the McMullen Museum, Boston College; Dec. 20-Mar. 9, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse NY. Catalogue pub. by the McMullen Museum of Art. distrib. by University of Chicago Press.
Prof. Jenifer Neils contributed “Looking for the Images: Representations of Girls’ Ritual in Ancient Athens” in the volume Finding Persephone: Women’s Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean edited by M. Parca and A. Tzanetou (Indiana University Press 2007) and delivered a paper entitled “The Dokimasia Painter at Morgantina” at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago, Dec. 4th, which highlights an important new archaeological discovery at the archaic site in central Sicily. She serves as visiting professor of the History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley for the spring 2008 semester.
Prof. Edward Olszewski has published "Expanding the Litany for Susanna and the Elders," SOURCE: Notes in the History of Art, 36/3, Spring 2007, 42-48, and "The Sexuality of Mary Magdalen in Renaissance Oblivion and Modern Recollection," SOURCE: Notes in the History of Art, 37/1, Fall 2007, 14-21.
Mattie McLaughlin Schloetzer (M.A. 2004) has curated the exhibition of plaster casts, "On a Grand Scale," at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, which received a favorable review from Joseph Giovanni in Architect, November 2007, 66-71. The collection is a gathering of early twentieth-century reproductions of major architectural and sculptural monuments from antiquity and the middle ages including the Romanesque facade of Ste. Giles du Gard, Ghiberti's bronze doors, and Nicola Pisano's Siena Duomo pulpit, among others.
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