2025 Annual Graduate Student Symposium

The Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize, of the Dahesh Museum of Art, given for a distinguished presentation at the Twenty-Second Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art, held on March 15 and March 16, 2025. This year, three individuals received the award:

Elizabeth Keto, Yale University, for “Life, Death, and Resurrection: Harriet Hosmer and the Anatomy of Neoclassical Sculpture.”

Sarah Rapoport, Yale University, for “‘A pastel by Manet frozen in pietra dura’: Craft Labor and National Identity in James Tissot’s Cloisonné Enamels.”

Taylor Stewart, The University of Chicago, for “Simulating ‘Things Past’: Shibata Zeshin’s Trompe L’Oeil Lacquers.”

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The Dahesh In Focus Series

The Museum is pleased to announce the arrival of a new publication in the In Focus series. Begun in 2016, the series explores aspects of academic art, major artists, or a single work of art, fully illustrated with examples from the Dahesh’s rich collection and comparative visual images. Each publication in the series features an essay written by a Dahesh staff member or scholar in the field. Buy Online