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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

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT:
Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish Art
Graduate seminars on various topics: Rembrandt; Rubens; Vermeer; Seventeenth-century Dutch Genre Imagery; Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscapes & Cityscapes; Haarlem’s Golden Age; Seventeenth-century Dutch Portraiture

RECENT DOCTORAL STUDENT DISSERTATIONS:

“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 17th-Century Dutch Art"
"The Proceeds of Prosperity: 17th-Century Dutch Images of Money Management & Exchange"
“Re-forming Mary in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prints”
“Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portraits in Scenes of Every Day Life”

EDUCATION

 

1980

Ph.D. in the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

1975

M.A. in the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

1972

B.A. in the History of Art and English Literature, University of California, Berkeley

 

 

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

 

1981-1995

11 General Research Fund Grants, University of Kansas

1992

Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellow, University of Kansas

1983-84

National Endowment for the Arts Grant

1983

Kansas University Endowment Association Grant

 

 

SELECTED TEACHING AWARDS

 

2007 Center for Teaching Excellence Department Award for Graduate Teaching
2006 Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center Woman Educator of the Year
2004   John C. Wright Graduate Mentor Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
1998 W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (Graduate Teaching)

1994

Byron Alexander Graduate Mentor Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

1994

Most Outstanding Departmental Doctoral Dissertation Advisor

1991

James C. Seaver Lecture on Continuing Issues in Western Civilization

1985

H. Bernerd Fink Award for Excellence in Teaching (Graduate & Undergraduate)

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

“Rembrandt Research Project: Issues and Controversies,” in Partisan Canons, ed. Anna Bryzski, University of Kentucky; Duke University Press; (forthcoming: July, 2007).

Scholarly review of Roelof Straten’s Young Rembrandt: The Leiden Years 1606-1632(Leiden, the Netherlands: Foleor Publishers), 2005, 369pp., in: Renaissance Quarterly(published by the Renaissance Society of America; the Graduate School and University Center; The City University of New York); forthcoming: summer 2007)

Scholarly review of Wayne Franits’ Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, Yale University Press, 2004, in: CAA.online reviews

"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.

Scholarly review of Mirror of Everyday Life: Genreprints 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'sVegetable 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.

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 and accompanying catalogue, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1983, 244pp [toured Yale University Art Gallery and Huntington Art Gallery at the University of Texas, Austin]

 


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