Monthly Archive for: ‘May, 2025’

Virtual Salon: Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment

Please join us on Tuesday, September 10, at 7PM EDT for the Virtual Salon “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment.” The Virtual Salon is a series of online events co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.

Commemorating the 150^th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition, Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment is a critical reexamination of the momentous show at Nadar’s studio on the Boulevard des Capucines. What was actually in that exhibition, and how did it relate to what was shown almost simultaneously at the Salon at the Palais de l’Industrie? How did artists in both shows respond to “l’année terrible” as Victor Hugo called the year 1870–71, the Franco-Prussian War, the siege of Paris and the savage suppression of the Commune? Exhibition curators Kim Jones and Mary Morton join Tulane Associate Professor Michelle Foa in a discussion of how their installation at the NGA addresses these questions.

Mary Morton is curator and head of the French paintings department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in history, and her PhD from Brown University, concentrating on 19^th and early 20^th century European painting. Dr. Morton began her curatorial career in the European art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and then as associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Her exhibition projects prior to arriving at the NGA include Courbet and the Modern Landscape (2006), Oudry’s Painted Menagerie (2007), and The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (2010). At the National Gallery, she organized the presentation of Gauguin: Maker of Myth (2011), a reinstallation of the Gallery’s renowned nineteenth-century collection (2012); Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye (2015), Cézanne Portraits (2017–18), Corot Women (2018), True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870 (2020), and Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment (2024).

Kimberly A. Jones is curator of Nineteenth-Century French Paintings at the Department of French Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. She received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 1996. A former museum fellow at the Musée national du château de Pau and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, she joined the curatorial staff of the National Gallery of Art in 1995. She has served as curator and catalogue author for a number of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, including Degas at the Races (1998); Edouard Vuillard, which was organized with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’Orsay/Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2003–2004); In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, which was organized in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2008); From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection (2010–2011); Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, an exhibition that traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Arts Center, Tokyo, and the Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto (2011); Degas/Cassatt (2014); Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism, which was organized with the Musée Fabre, Montpellier and the Musée d’Orsay, (2016–2017); Degas at the Opéra, organized with the Musée d’Orsay (2019–2020), and Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment, organized with the Musée d’Orsay (2024–2025).

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtdOCprzkjHd3fL7DyPlriAMQC79KKtq6r
Virtual Salon: AHNCA @ 30: Past, Present, and Future

Please join us on Tuesday, October 1 at 7PM EDT for the Virtual Salon “AHNCA @ 30: Past, Present, and Future.” The Virtual Salon is organized by Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and is part of a series of online events co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.

As AHNCA celebrates its 30th anniversary, we invite you to join Patricia Mainardi, its founder, and Roberto C. Ferrari, her former student who served on the AHNCA board, for a conversation about the history of the organization and how the study of nineteenth-century art has evolved and continues to do so today. There will also be a few surprise guests and time for Q&A as well.

Patricia Mainardi is professor emerita of art history at the doctoral program in art history of the City University of New York. A specialist in European art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, her books include Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867; The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic; Husbands, Wives and Lovers: Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century France; and Another World: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture, in addition to numerous articles, catalogues, and reviews. She has received numerous fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art (France), and the Yale Center for British Art. She is Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques of France and is one of only two art historians who received both the College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award and its Charles Rufus Morey Award for the most distinguished book of the year, Art and Politics of the Second Empire.

Roberto C. Ferrari is the Curator of Art Properties at Columbia University Libraries, where he oversees the university’s permanent collection. He received his PhD in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, focusing on nineteenth-century British art. Ferrari will guest co-curate with Sophie Lynford a major exhibition on Simeon Solomon at Delaware Art Museum in 2027. He most recently curated the exhibition Time and Face: Daguerreotypes to Digital Prints (Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2021–22). Ferrari has taught courses in art history and curatorial practice at Columbia, Drew University, and other institutions. He has published extensively and given numerous presentations on the Jewish artists Rebecca and Simeon Solomon, the Black model Fanny Eaton, the neoclassical sculptor John Gibson, and the US-born painter Florine Stettheimer.

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This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8TAmxLLJSgiiQocRwhP6ww.
Virtual Salon: Reconsidering Nineteenth-Century Sculpture

Please join us on Friday, November 15 at 11AM ET for the Virtual Salon “Reconsidering Nineteenth-Century Sculpture”. The Virtual Salon is a series of online events co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.

In this Salon, Andrew Eschelbacher will moderate a discussion among notable sculpture specialists, each presenting their own projects and views of the current state of nineteenth-century sculpture research.

Andrew Eschelbacher, Moderator, is Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. A specialist of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American sculpture, he is the editor of Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French (2023) as well as A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach (2017) and Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism (2016).

Patrick Crowley is Associate Curator of European Art at the Cantor Arts Center of Stanford University where he oversees a collection that ranges from antiquity through 1900. He is currently developing an exhibition on nineteenth-century photo sculpture. Prior to Stanford, he was Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His work has been supported by the J. Paul Getty Trust, Research Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. He is the author of The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome.

Karen Lemmey is Curator of Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Along with Grace Yasumura and Tobias Wofford, she curated SAAM’s exhibition, The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture (Nov. 8, 2024–Sept. 14, 2025). In 2015, she curated SAAM’s Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave. She previously served as monuments coordinator for the City of New York’s Department of Parks & Recreation, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where she organized the 2006 exhibition, Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier.

Laure de Margerie is Director of the French Sculpture Census, the first comprehensive catalogue of French sculpture (1500–1960) in American public collections. She was head of the Sculpture Archives at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris (1978–2009), co-authored its collection catalogue, and was part of the Orsay’s first sculpture installation team. She has curated several exhibitions: La Danse de Carpeaux (Paris and Valenciennes, 1989), Drawings by Carpeaux (Paris, 1991–92), Carpeaux peintre (Paris, Valenciennes, and Amsterdam, 1999/2000), and Charles Cordier (1827–1905), Ethnographic Sculptor (Paris, Quebec City, and New York, Dahesh Museum, 2004–05).

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This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqcuqqrTgrG9POjIW0knlAvPhiEdg9jnZu.
Virtual Salon: New Books by AHNCA Members

Please join us for two Virtual Salons, one on Friday, January 17 and the other on Friday, January 24, and learn more about books published in 2024 by AHNCA members. Each author will give a brief presentation about their book, followed by a discussion among the authors and a Q&A with the audience.

Virtual Salons are monthly online events co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.

January 17, 12:00PM EST

Phillip Dennis Cate, Paris and La Belle Epoque: The Center of Avant-Garde Artist
Shana Cooperstein, Drawing Pedagogy in Modern France: Habit’s Demise
Katie Hornstein, Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century
Heather McPherson, Picturing the Artist’s Studio, from Delacroix to Picasso
Kelly Presutti, Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France
Harmon Siegel, Painting with Monet

January 24, 2:00PM EST

Ruth E. Iskin, Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy
Sarah Lewis, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
Kimberly A. Orcutt, The American Art-Union: Utopia and Skepticism in the Antebellum Era
Jeff Rosen, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography

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This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required:

Register for book event 1, Jan 17, 2025, 12PM: AHNCAbooks1
Register for book event 2, Jan 24, 2025, 2PM: AHNCAbooks2
Virtual Salon: Art and Ecology

Please join us on Friday, February 7, 2025 at 11AM ET for “Art and Ecology”, a Virtual Salon co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.

For this event, we are fortunate to host four speakers to discuss this important area of nineteenth-century studies: Sarah Gould, Simon Kelly, Michael Lobel, and Harmon Siegel. Each speaker will give a brief presentation on an object drawn from their research, followed by discussion and then a Q&A.

Sarah Gould is an Assistant Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she focuses on the study of British art in both her research and teaching. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of the material and ecological meanings of art. She is currently working on two monographs, one on the Victorian painter John Everett Millais and the other on pollution in painting and visual culture in nineteenth-century Britain.

Simon Kelly is Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. He has curated numerous exhibitions there including, most recently, “Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape” (2023) and “Matisse and the Sea” (2024). He has published extensively on 19th- and early 20th-century French art, particularly on Barbizon and Impressionist painting, including the book, Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is currently writing a book on the 19th-century international community of artists at Barbizon. Kelly received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he also taught art history.

Michael Lobel is Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. His publications include four books, the most recent being Van Gogh and the End of Nature, published by Yale University Press in summer 2024. A regular contributor to exhibition catalogues and to such publications as Artforum, American Art, and Art Bulletin, his research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Dedalus Foundation, the NEH, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Harmon Siegel is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. His writing has appeared in Art Bulletin, American Art, and Nonsite, and he writes as a critic for Artforum and Texte zur Kunst. His book, Painting with Monet, is now out from Princeton University Press.

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This online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at: https:/tinyurl.com/Art-Ecology.
2025 AHNCA/Dahesh Graduate Student Symposium

TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART
Saturday & Sunday, March 15–16, 2025, 11AM to 5 PM EST

Co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and
the Dahesh Museum of Art.

This event will be held online. Advance registration is required.

Special thanks to the Dahesh Museum of Art for the Dahesh Museum of Art Prize for the Best Paper(s),
a gift from the Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation

Saturday, March 15, 2025

11:00 am Keynote Lecture, “Picturing the Heavens: Étienne-Leopold Trouvelot’s Astronomical Drawings”

Rachael Z. DeLue, Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art and Director of the Princeton Humanities Initiative, Princeton University

Prof. DeLue will be introduced by Michelle Foa, AHNCA Programs Chair; Q&A to follow.

Lunch break

1:30 pm Welcome

Nancy Locke, President, AHNCA

J. David Farmer, Director of Exhibitions, Dahesh Museum of Art

1:40 pm Viktoriia Bazyk, University of Vienna
“Hellish Masculinities: Virility, Violence and Eroticism in William Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil in Hell”

2:00 pm Elizabeth Keto, Yale University
“Life, Death, and Resurrection: Harriet Hosmer and the Anatomy of Neoclassical Sculpture”

2:20 pm Rhea Stark, Columbia University
“The Rise and Reformation of Temple Emanu-El: America’s ‘Cathedral Synagogue’ and the Aesthetic Identifications of Reform Jewry”

2:35–2:50 pm Q & A

2:50–3:05 pm Break

3:05 pm Paula Bruno Garcén, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Geografía
“Cosmopolitan Experiences and Technologies of Light, Space and Movement in Buenos Aires During the 19th Century”

3:25 pm Elizabeth Halide Akant, City University of New York
“Fabricating the Sultan’s Image: The Zonaros and the Politics of Ottoman Belonging, 1892–1909”

3:45–4:00 pm Q & A

4:00–4:10 pm Break

4:10–4:30 pm Response to papers from Prof. DeLue

4:30–5:00 pm General discussion with all speakers and audience

Sunday, March 16, 2025

1:00 pm Welcome

Nancy Locke, President, AHNCA

Stephen Edidin, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Dahesh Museum of Art

1:10 pm Dahi Jung, University of Zurich
“Beyond Canton, Beyond China: Pith Paper Across Cultures”

1:30 pm Taylor Stewart, The University of Chicago
“Constructing Kōgei: Shibata Zeshin’s Trompe L’Oeil Lacquers”

1:45–2:00 pm Q & A

2:00–2:15 pm Break

2:15 pm Sarah Rapoport, Yale University
“‘A pastel by Manet frozen in pietra dura’: Craft Labor and National Identity in James Tissot’s Cloisonné Enamels”

2:35 pm Tyler C. Spencer, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
“A Second Look at Illustration: Timothy O’Sullivan and American Survey Photography”

2:50–3:05 pm Q & A

3:05–3:20 pm Break

3:20–3:40 pm Response to papers from Prof. DeLue

3:40–4:10 pm General discussion with all speakers and audience

Special thanks to:

Amira Zahid, Trustee, Dahesh Museum of Art

Tannaz Hajimirzaamin, Technical Director

Jury: André Dombrowski, J. David Farmer, Michelle Foa, Nancy Locke, Mary Morton, David O’Brien, James H. Rubin
Virtual Salon: The Morality of Pictures

Please join us on Friday, April 25, 2025 at noon ET for “The Morality of Pictures,” a Virtual Salon co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.

“Art,” Baudelaire wrote, “cannot, except at the price of death or decay, assume the mantle of morality,” but he immediately added that every artwork “naturally and necessarily suggests a moral.” In this Virtual Salon, three distinguished scholars will consider what role, if any, moral values play in the production and understanding of artworks.

Bridget Alsdorf is Professor of Modern European Art at Princeton University. The author of Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting (2013) and Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France (2022), she is currently writing a book on love and collaboration in modern Scandinavian painting, photography, and silent film (ca. 1870–1920), informed by the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. With Carolyn Yerkes, she is working on a book and exhibition on Jacques Callot.

Todd Cronan is Professor of Art History at Emory University and editor-in-chief of nonsite.org. He is author of Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, Bergson, Modernism (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2013), Red Aesthetics: Rodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2023) and coeditor (with Peter Bunnell) of Minor White, Memorable Fancies (Princeton University Press, 2025). He is currently working on a book on Matisse and Manet and (with Walter Benn Michaels and Lisa Siraganian) Intention: Three Inquiries in Art and Action (Univ. of Chicago, 2026). He has also written on art and politics for Jacobin, The Nation, Brooklyn Rail, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Common Dreams.

Ralph Ubl is Professor of Modern Art History at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is author of Prehistoric Future. Max Ernst and the Return of Painting (2013) and Bildtheorie zur Einführung (2013, together with Wolfram Pichler). His most recent publications include essays on Max Klinger and Jeff Wall. He is currently writing a book on Eugène Delacroix.

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This online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at: https://tinyurl.com/The-Morality-of-Pictures