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Linda Stone-Ferrier
Professor and Chair,
History of Art Department
17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Art

 

 

 


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Linda Stone-Ferrier

Linda Stone-Ferrier specializes in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. Her research interests include seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes, scenes of daily life, and the art of Rembrandt.

EDUCATION

 

1980

Ph.D.

History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

1975

M.A.

History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

1972

B.A.

History of Art and English Literature, University of California, Berkeley

1970-71   University of Edinburgh, Scotland
   

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1995-

Chair, History of Art Department, University of Kansas

1993-

Professor, University of Kansas

1986-93

Associate Professor, University of Kansas

1980-86

Assistant Professor, University of Kansas

   

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS

  • Center for Teaching Excellence Department Award for Graduate Teaching, University of Kansas, 2007
  • Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center Woman Educator of the Year, University of Kansas, 2006
  • John C. Wright Graduate Mentor Award, University of Kansas, 2004 
  • Hall Center for the Humanities Lecture Series, University of Kansas, 2004
  • W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (Graduate Teaching), University of Kansas, 1998
  • 11 General Research Fund Grants, University of Kansas, 1981-1995
  • Byron Alexander Graduate Mentor Award, University of Kansas,1994
  • Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellow, University of Kansas, 1992
  • James C. Seaver Lecture on Continuing Issues in Western Civilization, University of Kansas, 1991
  • National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1983-84
  • H. Bernerd Fink Award for Excellence in Teaching (Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award), University of Kansas, 1985
  • Kansas University Endowment Association Grant, 1983
  • Sigmund Martin Heller Dissertation Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-79
  • Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant , University of California, Berkeley, 1974

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 
Book/Exhibition Catalogue
 
Images of Textiles: The Weave of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Society, UMI Research Press Art Patronage Series, Ann Arbor, MI, 1985, 304pp.

Dutch Prints of Daily Life: Mirrors of Life or Masks of Morals?, scholarly exhibition catalogue, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1983, 244pp [exhibition venues: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; Yale University Art Gallery; and Huntington Art Gallery at the University of Texas, Austin]
 
Articles and Book Chapters
 

“Rembrandt Research Project: Issues and Controversies,” in Partisan Canons, ed. Anna Bryzski, University of Kentucky; Duke University Press, 2007, 225-244.

"From Shrew to Poetess: Two Non-traditional Female Roles at Opposite Ends of the Social Spectrum Evoked by a Curious Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting by Gabriel Metsu," Saints, Sinners, and Sisters. Women and the Pictorial Arts of Northern Europe in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, eds. Alison G. Stewart & Jane L. Carroll; Ashgate Publishing Ltd., England, 2003, 223-245.

"Metsu's Justice Protecting Widows and Orphans: Patron and Painter Relationships and Their Involvement in the Social and Economic Plight of Widows and Orphans in Leiden," The Public and Private in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age, eds. Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. & Adele Seeff, Newark: The University of Delaware Press & London: Associated University Presses, 2000, 227-265.

Review of Mirror of Everyday Life: Genre prints in the Netherlands 1550-1700, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, Simiolus, Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, vol. 25, nr. 4, 1997, 352-358.

"Inclusions and Exclusions: The Selectivity of Adriaen van Ostade's Etchings," Adriaen van Ostade: Etchings of Peasant Life in Holland's Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, ed. Patricia Phagan, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, 1994, 21-29.

"Gabriel Metsu's Vegetable Market at Amsterdam and Its Relationship to a Bredero Farce," Artibus et Historiae, vol 25 (XIII), 1992, Vienna, 163-180.

"Rembrandt's Landscape Etchings: Defying Modernity's Encroachment," Art History, vol. 15, nr.4 (Dec. 1992), London, 403-433.

"Market Scenes as Viewed by an Art Historian," Art in History/ History in Art: Studies in 17th-Century Dutch Culture, Issues and Debates Series, eds., David Freedberg & Jan de Vries, vol. 1, The Getty Center for the History of Art & the Humanities, Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 1991, 28-57.

"Gabriel Metsu's Vegetable Market at Amsterdam: Dutch 17th-Century Horticulture and Market Paintings," Art Bulletin, LXXI, no. 3 (September 1989), 428-452.

"Spun Virtue, the Lacework of Folly, and the World Wound Upside-Down: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Depictions of Female Handwork," Cloth and Human Experience, eds. A. Weiner & J. Schneider, Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1989, 215-242.

"Views of Haarlem: A Reconsideration of Ruisdael and Rembrandt," Art Bulletin, LXVII, No. 3 (September 1985), 417-436.

 
EXHIBITION CURATED
 
Dutch Prints of Daily Life: Mirrors of Life or Masks of Morals? [exhibition venues: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; Yale University Art Gallery; and Huntington Art Gallery at the University of Texas, Austin], 1983-84
 
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
 

Lecture: Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish Art

Graduate seminars: Rembrandt; Rubens; Vermeer; Seventeenth-century Dutch Genre Imagery; Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscapes & Cityscapes; Haarlem’s Golden Age; Seventeenth-century Dutch Portraiture

 
DISSERTATIONS CHAIRED, IN PROGRESS
 
  • The Proceeds of Prosperity: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Images of Money Management and Exchange

  • Re-forming Mary in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prints
 
DISSERTATIONS CHAIRED, COMPLETED
 
  • Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portraits in Scenes of Every Day Life

  • Refashioning Female Identity: Women’s Roles in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Historiated Portraits

  • Rembrandt’s Humor: Scatology, Satire, Burlesque, and Irony in Six Etchings

  • Images of the Soldier in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

  • Dutch Seventeenth-Century Images of Classicizing Palaces and Villas inside the Netherlands

  • Scenes from Republican Roman History in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

  • The Portuguese Jewish Community in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Images of Commemoration and Documentation

  • The Impact of Trade by the Dutch East India Company on Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art

  • The Passion of Christ in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting

  • The Last Judgment in Early Netherlandish Painting: Faith, Authority, and Charity in the Fifteenth Century

  • The Narrative Biblical Series in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting: Murillo's Life of Jacob and The Prodigal Son

 

 

 


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