Perspectives sur la Recherche: A Roundtable on Franco-American Art Research
Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
Hosted by the Joan Mitchell Foundation
Welcome
Christa Blatchford
Executive Director, Joan Mitchell Foundation
Opening Remarks
Alexandra Keiser
Managing Director, Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association
Project Manager, Joan Mitchell Catalogue Raisonné
Introduction
Abigael MacGibeny
Researcher, Joan Mitchell Catalogue Raisonné
Presentations
Stephanie Herdrich on John Singer Sargent
Sewon Kang on Louise Bourgeois
Anna O. Marley on Henry Ossawa Tanner
Marin R. Sullivan on Claire Falkenstein
Christina Weyl on the artists of Atelier 17
Roundtable Discussion
Moderated by Susan J. Cooke
Independent Art Historian and Board Member, CRSA
Presenters
Stephanie Herdrich is the Alice Pratt Brown Associate Curator of American Painting and Drawing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work focuses on late 19th-century American paintings and drawings. She was co-curator of the exhibition Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents (2022) and has contributed to Met exhibitions and publications about American Impressionism, American drawings, and artists Childe Hassam, George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Hart Benton, among others. An expert on the work of John Singer Sargent, she is author of Sargent: The Masterworks (2018), and other publications, and was co-curator of The Met’s presentation of Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends (2015).
Sewon Kang is Archivist at The Easton Foundation, Louise Bourgeois’ home and studio, where she is responsible for the care of the artist’s diaries, papers, and small collection of prints and illustrated books. She previously worked in the Drawings and Prints department at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, first on the online catalogue raisonné of Bourgeois’ printed oeuvre, and then on the 2017 print retrospective, An Unfolding Portrait. Sewon also researched other areas of MoMA’s collection for new acquisition initiatives, publications, and the reinstallation of the expanded museum.
Anna O. Marley is the Chief of Curatorial Affairs and the Kenneth R. Woodcock Curator of Historical American Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). At PAFA, Marley has curated over 16 exhibitions, including the touring retrospective Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit (2012), and editing the acclaimed accompanying catalogue, published by the University of California Press. Marley's more recent exhibitions at PAFA include Women in Motion: 150 Years of Women’s Artistic Networks at PAFA (2021); and Making American Artists: Stories From PAFA, 1776-1996 (2022), which embarked on a six-venue national tour in 2023. She is a current Advisory Board Member of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Journal.
Marin R. Sullivan is an independent art historian and curator. She currently serves as the Director of the Harry Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné Project at the Harry Bertoia Foundation and is a lecturer at DePaul University in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture. She also works as a Guest Curator at the DePaul Art Museum and is a Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library, both in Chicago. Marin is a member of the Board of Directors of Docomomo US/Chicago, and serves on committees for the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association and the Public Art Consortium.
Christina Weyl is a New York-based curator and art historian with expertise on twentieth-century American printmaking and women artists. Her book, The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York (Yale University Press, 2019), which grew from her dissertation, highlights the nearly 100 women artists who advanced modernism and feminism at Atelier 17, the avant-garde printmaking studio located in New York City between 1940 and 1955. She has organized numerous exhibitions for institutions such as the Print Center New York, Art Students League, Pollock-Krasner House, and Arcadia University. She has published in Art in Print, Print Quarterly, Archives of American Art Journal, and Panorama, and contributed to several anthologies and exhibition catalogues.