Conferences

Sunday, July 6, 2008
4pm – Auditorium
Fashioning the Transatlantic Woman
Sarah Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts, Indiana University

Eminent specialist of nineteenth-century American art, Sarah Burns will give a conference related to the exhibition “Portrait of a Lady: American Paintings and Photographs in France, 1870–1915.” This conference falls within the scope of the essay that she published in the exhibition catalogue. Professor Burns is the author of numerous books and articles, notably Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (1989), Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (1996),  Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (2004) and is co-editor of a collection of texts on American art American Art of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Documentary Anthology (2008). She has also contributed to a number of exhibition catalogues including  Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and Amon Carter Museum, 2002–2003), American Women Modernists: the Legacy of Robert Henri, 1919–1945 (Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 2005).