Join us on Friday, October 20th at 5:00 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art Lecture Hall for the 2023 Harvey Buchanan Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, which will be given by Carolyn Kinder Carr, PhD. Dr. Carr is the former Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery and alumna of the Department of Art History and Art at CWRU. The lecture is entitled “Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age.”
Please join us in congratulating doctoral candidate Jillian Kruse and Dr. Britany Salsbury, Curator of Prints & Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art and CWRU alumna (BA Art History and English), on the opening of the exhibition Degas and the Laundress! On view in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery of the CMA until January 14, the exhibition is the first to explore Impressionist artist Edgar Degas’s representations of Parisian laundresses, as well as to place this important series in context with paintings, drawings, and prints of the same subject by the artist’s contemporaries.
Congratulations to our very own Professor Elina Gertsman for her appointment as Distinguished University Professor, the highest distinction granted to faculty at CWRU. Professor Gertsman is not only the youngest faculty member at CWRU to ever be awarded this title—she is also the first professor from our department and the second woman in all of the humanities. Read more and see more photos by clicking below!
This summer, third-year PhD students Clara Pinchbeck and Arielle Suskin were accepted to be part of the American Excavations at Samothrace team. They traveled to Athens and scoped out the Acropolis, found Arielle’s favorite vase fragments in the Acropolis Museum, then landed in Samothrace, land of the ancient sanctuary and many goats.
