2002 - 2003 Scholars

Christina Grace Cogdell
Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies
California State University, Fullerton
"Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s"
Jan - Aug 2003
8 months
Guest curator of exhibition (title above)
Cogdell's work explores the interactions between ideology and visual culture in the rise of U.S. industrial design during the 1920s and 1930s, examining multiple correlations between eugenic thought and the streamline style.

Audrey Goodman
Assistant Professor, Department of English,
Georgia State University
"Exploring Culture from the Modernist Southwest"
Sept 2002 - June 2003
8 months
Goodman's project investigates how the production and circulation of art and folklore in New Mexico reveal the central paradox of a period and place caught between enforced migration and willed regionalism.

Heather Elizabeth Hole
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art, Princeton University
"(Re)Constructing American Art: Marsden Hartley and the New Mexico Landscape, 1918-1925"
June - Aug 2003
3 months
Hole's dissertation will investigate Hartley's New Mexico art and writings. She will argue that Hartley's New Mexico works and their internal contradictions reveal a rich, complex, and hitherto underestimated attempt to construct a personal and national identity in the face of private loss and cultural upheaval.

Carolyn Winnifred Butler Palmer
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History,
University of Pittsburgh
"Interfaces: The Pop, Politics and Portraiture of David Neel and Andy Warhol"
Sept 2002 - April 2003
8 months
Palmer centers her discussion on explaining the following paradox: the art of Neel and Warhol shares formal properties, methodological techniques, and excerpts from the other's culture, and yet, each still expresses culturally distinct ideas.

Bett Kristine Schumacher
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art Department,
Johns Hopkins University
"Helen Frankenthaler's Modernism: Embodiment and Pictorial Ambiguity, 1950-1965"
Sept 2002 - Aug 2003
12 months
Through analyses of American painter Helen Frankenthaler's training, artistic practice, critical reception, and intellectual circle, Schumacher's dissertation will provide a fully articulated and sustained explanation of Frankenthaler's aesthetic enterprise.

Ann Prentice Wagner
Ph.D. Candidate, Art History & Archeology,
University of Maryland
"Living on Paper: The Culture of Drawing in the Stieglitz Circle, 1903-1925"
Jan - March 2003
3 months
In her dissertation, Wagner will study the new culture of drawing that arose in the Alfred Stieglitz Circle in the early twentieth century. Ms. Wagner will focus her inquiry on the critical impact of works by Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin, the most important graphic artists Stieglitz exhibited.

Mary N. Woods
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture,
Cornell University
"Learning to See the 'New' New York: Place and Photography in New York City: 1890-1950"
May - July 2003
3 months
Woods' project will demonstrate how artists, amateurs, journalists, and documentarians contributed to the visual canon of architectural histories of seeing the "new" New York from 1890 until 1950 and thus expanded them to include things other than the usual and conventional photographs of buildings.