Artist Raphael Morghen from the Spencer Museum of Art Collection
 

Past Franklin D. Murphy Lecturers

2012-2013

John T. Carpenter
Curator of Japanese Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday, April 9 at 5:15 PM
Spencer Museum of Art
"Hokusai: Painting and Deluxe Prints for Special Clients."
Kevin Carr
Associate Professor of Japanese Art History
University of Michigan
Thursday, March 28 at 5:15 PM
Spencer Museum of Art
"Who is the Hase Kannon? Reflections on Sacred Identities in Medieval Japanese Art"
Michael R. Grauer
Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and
Curator of Art for Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Wednesday, October 24 at 5:15 PM
Spencer Museum of Art
"My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys and Indians, and Other Horror Stories of an Unorthodox Historian of Art (and other stuff)"
Sharon Gregory
Associate Professor of Art History
St. Francis Xavier University
Monday, October 22 at 5:15 PM
Spencer Museum of Art
"Out from Under the Tuscan Sun: Vasari, Salviati and Michelangelo in Venice"
William E. Wallace
Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
Washington University, St. Louis
Thursday, November 8 at 5:15 PM
Spencer Museum of Art
"Problems in Michelangelo's Sculpture… Many"
Laura Weigert
Associate Professor of Art History
Rutgers University
Tuesday, March 12 at 5:30 PM
Spencer Museum of Art
"The Devil's Stage: Hubert Cailleau's Illuminated Manuscripts and the Illusion of a Medieval Theater"

2011-2012

Michael Brenson
Bard College
"Anatomy of a Sculptural Masterpiece: David Smith's Australia (1951)"
Spencer Museum of Art
Thursday, April 19, 2012.  5:30 PM
"David Smith and the Challenges of Biography"
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Sunday, April 22, 2012. 2:30 PM

2009-2010

Christopher M.S. Johns
Norman & Roselea Goldberg Professor of Art History Vanderbilt University
"China and the Church: Chinoiserie and the Roman Connection"
Thursday, April 15, 5:30 pm
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium
"The Art and Visual Culture of European Chinoiserie"
Sunday, April 18, 2:30 pm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Toshio Watanabe
The Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts, London
"Modernity and Censorship: Nude Painting Controversy in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)"
Thursday, April 1 at 5:30 pm
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium
"Modern Japanese Gardens in a Transnational Context"
Thursday, April 8 at 6:00 pm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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