Association of Historians of American Art

Friday, October 10

University of Pennsylvania, Rainey Auditorium 
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 
3260 South Street

8:30-9:00: Registration/Coffee

9:00-9:15: Welcoming Remarks: Akela Reason

9:15-10:30: Visual Culture: Case Studies
Moderator: Wendy Bellion
1. Paul Staiti: John Adams, John Singleton Copley, and the Republican Man
2. Tanya Sheehan: Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s High, Jack, Game
3. Catherine Holochwost: Charles Bird King’s Creative Appetites

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45-12:15: Lightning Round
Moderator: Kathy Foster
1. Naomi Slipp: “The Secret Figure”: Artistic Anatomy and the Search for the Medical Body in Nineteenth-Century American Art
2. Shana Lopes: “The fraternity throughout the world”: American and German Photography, Interactions from 1840 to 1890
3. Amy Torbert: Going Places: The Material and Imaginary Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840
4. Peter Han-Chih Wang: The Profane and Profound: American Road Photography from 1930 to Present
5. Christina Weyl: Abstract Expressionism: Women Printmakers and the New York Atelier 17, 1940-55
6. Shannon Vittoria: Nature and Nostalgia in the Etchings of Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899)
7. Katelyn Crawford: Transient Painters, Traveling Canvases: Portraiture and Mobility in the British Atlantic, 1750-1780
8. La Tanya Autry: Crossroads of Commemoration: Lynching Landscapes in America
9. Caroline Riley: Three Centuries of American Art: The United States on Display in 1930s Europe

12:15-1:45: Lunch

1:45-3:00: Visual Culture: Nineteenth Century
Moderator: Erika Piola
1. Sarah Burns: Victorian Obsessions
2. Isabel Taube: Inside Appropriation: W. M. Chase’s Encounter with Mariano Fortuny’s Interiors
3. Marie Stephanie Delamaire: Time and Space in Richard Caton Woodville’s Paintings of Antebellum America

3:00-3:15: Break

3:15-4:45: Visual Culture: Twentieth Century
Moderator: Theresa Leininger-Miller
1. Lauren Kroiz: Grant Wood and Photography
2. Alexandra Davis Weiss: Beyond the “Bad Dream of Modernism”:  Rethinking Cecil Beaton’s Fashion Photographs of Jackson Pollock’s Drip Paintings for Vogue Magazine
3. Rebecca Keegan VanDiver: The Pictures Not Painted: African American Artists and the Rosenwald Fund Fellowship, 1929-1948

Evening: TBD