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Charles
C. Eldredge
Hall Distinguished Professor
of American Art and Culture
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Courses regularly taught:
American art, Colonial to Civil War
American art, 1860-1900
American art, 1900-1945
Art since 1945
Kansas Art and Popular Culture
Graduate seminars on various topics, including:
American art in the 1930s; American drawings; 19th-century American
painters in Italy; Symbolist painting; Georgia O'Keeffe; Winslow
Homer; Marsden Hartley; Comparative study: Landscape art in New
Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the U.S.; Art in New Mexico; American
still-life; Art of the American West; American folk art; John Steuart
Curry and regional art; The Gilded Age; Issues in Contemporary Art,
1990-2004.
Doctoral dissertations chaired:
American Painting and Sculpture at the World's Columbian Exposition,
Chicago, 1893
The Army and the Arts: A Study of Patronage in 19th-century America
(American Studies)
Thomas Hart Benton: Teaching and Art Theory
The Aesthetic of the Industrial Zone and Images of the Factory in
American Art, 1916-1940
Utopian Expressions: The Arts and the Ephrata Community
American Art and Environmentalism in the 1930s
Marsden Hartley's Late Paintings: American Masculinity and American
Identity in the 1930s and '40s
Agnes Pelton (1881-1961) (American Studies)
Picturing Justice: Trial and Punishment in American Visual Culture,
1850-1880
"Why Not Revolution?": The John Reed Club and Visual Culture
Legends of Bohemia: The Monterey Penninsula and Its Early Art Colony,
1875-1907
C. Bertram Hartman: Early Modernist from Kansas
Childhood's End: Representing the American
Child, 1940-1970
Immigration in American Art and Architecture in New York City, 1880-1924
Through the Eyes of an Expressionist: Southern Culture, Places, and Memories in the Art of David Bates
Doctoral dissertations, chair
(in progress):
An Epoch of the American Farm: James Ormsbee Chapin and the Marvin
Paintings
Land of Lincoln: The Sixteenth President in Interwar Culture and Collective Memory
Avis Mortis: Ornithology and Modern American Art
| EDUCATION |
| 1971 |
Ph.D., Art History, University of Minnesota |
| 1966 |
B.A., American Studies, Amherst College |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
| 1988- |
Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture,
University of Kansas |
| 1982-88 |
Director, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
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| 1971-82 |
Director, Spencer Museum of Art, and Professor, Art History,
University of Kansas |
| 1970-71 |
Curator, Museum of Art, and Assistant Professor, Art History,
University of Kansas |
| EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES |
| 1996- |
Editorial board, American Art |
| 1987 |
Founder, Smithsonian Studies in American Art |
| 1976-82 |
Editorial board, American Studies |
| 1979-81 |
Museum news editor, Art Journal (College
Art Association of America) |
| TRUSTEE |
Watkins Community Museum, Lawrence,
KS 1973-1976
Association of Art Museum Directors, 1981-1982, 1987-1988
Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 1986-1988
Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 1987-1993; Trustee Emeritus
Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, NM 1989-1995
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 2003-2006
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| SELECTED HONORS AND
AWARDS |
| 2004 |
Phi Beta Kappa, honorary |
| 2003 |
W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence
(graduate teaching) |
| 2000 |
KU Center for Teaching Excellence Award for Undergraduate
Instruction |
| 1995 |
Smithsonian Fellowship |
| 1993 |
Foundation Fellow, University of Auckland |
| 1990 |
Honorary member, Association of Art Museum Directors |
| 1989-present |
Smithsonian Research Associate |
| 1986 |
Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Minnesota |
| 1985 |
C.H. Hynson Visiting Professor of Art, University
of Texas, Austin |
| 1983 |
Fulbright Scholar (New Zealand) |
| 1979 |
Smithsonian Fellowship |
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| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
| John Steuart Curry's "Hoover and the Flood": Painting Modern History. University of North Carolina
Press, 2007.
Tales from the
Easel: American Narrative Paintings, University of Georgia
Press, 2004.
The Floor of the Sky: Artists and
the North American Prairie, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, 2000.
Reflections on Nature: Small Paintings
by Arthur Dove, 1942-1943, The American Federation of
Arts, 1997
Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern, Yale University Press, 1993
Pacific Parallels:
Artists & Landscape in New Zealand, 1840-1990, with Jim Barr and Mary Barr, University of Washington Press,
1991.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Harry N. Abrams
Inc., 1991
American Originals: Selections from Reynolda House, Museum
of American Art, with Barbara B. Millhouse, Abbeville
Press, 1990
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945: Paths
to Taos & Santa Fe , with Julie Schimmel and William
H. Truettner, Abbeville Press, 1986.
Charles Walter Stetson, Color and Fantasy , Spencer
Museum of Art, 1982
American Imagination and Symbolist Painting, Grey Art
Gallery, New York University, 1979
Ward Lockwood, 1894-1963,
University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1974.
The Arcadian
Landscape: Nineteenth-Century American Painters in Italy,
with Barbara Novak, University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1974.
Marsden Hartley, Lithographs and Related Works,
University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1972.
Articles in:
American Art, The American Art Journal, Antipodes, Apollo,
Archives of American Art, Art in America, Art Journal, Antiques
Monthly, The Art Gallery, Bulletin of New Zealand Art
History, Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design, Smithsonian
Studies in American Art. |
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