Blog Archive

March 31, 2025

Prof. Erin Pauwels to give Smithsonian American Art Museum Lunchbag Seminar

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The virtual lecture is Thursday, April 3, 12–1 PM ETIn her role as Terra Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, and Associate Professor of American Art, Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, Pauwels will be lecturing on her latest research, "Unsettled Ground: Richard Throssel’s Photographic Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation". Read More

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March 19, 2025

Emma P. Holter (PhD candidate) awarded Kress Fellowship

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emma has been awarded the 2025-2027 Kress Institutional Fellowship hosted at The Courtauld Institute of Art and The Warburg Institute! As a Kress Fellow, Emma will research and write her doctoral dissertation "Refuting the Disegno-Colore Paradigm: Underdrawing and Monochrome Painting in Renaissance Venice," which is advised by Dr. Tracy E. Cooper. This highly competitive fellowship, sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, will offer Emma the opportunity to conduct object-based and archival research on 15th- and 16th-century Venetian drawings, underdrawings, and monochromatic paintings throughout museum collections in the UK and Europe.  Read More

March 10, 2025

Emma Holter (PhD candidate) interns at the Princeton University Art Museum

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emma has been awarded the graduate summer internship in the Department of Prints & Drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum. She will be assisting the curatorial team with provenance research, and with the organization of upcoming collection rotations and special exhibitions, in advance of the museum's reopening in the autumn of 2025. Read More