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American Art Reading Group The American Art Reading Group was founded in response to the rapidly expanding strengths of the department in the study of American art.¾ The group meets periodically to discuss important publications in the field, review scholarly publications, and host a variety of speakers from both within and beyond the University community.¾ It also allows graduate students and faculty the opportunity to share research and resources with one another in an informal and collegial atmosphere. 2003-2004 The first meeting
of the semester on Thursday, September 25th discussed
John Michael Vlachês article –American Folk Art: Questions and Quandries. Further meetings will be posted as they are scheduled. The American Art Reading Group encourages interested faculty and graduate students to attend lunchbag lectures sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.¾ A tentative schedule is as follows: Wednesday,
September 10 Wednesday, October 15th, 4:30 PM, National Gallery of Art (East Building Auditorium), Jules Prown, Emeritus Professor at Yale University will deliver the Inaugural Wyeth Lecture in American Art. His topic is Friends and Rivals: Copley, West, Peale, Trumball, Stuart. Reception to Follow. Sunday, October 19th, 2PM, National Gallery of Art (East Building Auditorium), John Wilmerding, Sarofim Professor of American Art, Princeton University, will present Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings Sunday, November 16th, 2PM, National Gallery of Art (East Building Auditorium), David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Wake Forest University, will present Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images Wednesday, November 19th Edgar P. Richardson Symposium on Portraiture. The program for the symposium is Self-Portraiture: The Autobiograpical Impulse in American Art. For more information, please visit the National Portrait Gallery's website at The National Portrait Gallery Events Page Thursday,
November 20th. At
3 p.m. in the Renwick Gallery, Professor Richard Meyer of the University
of Southern California, will deliver a lecture based on his 2003
Charles C. Eldredge Prize-Winning book, Outlaw Representation:
Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Oxford University Press, 2002). His lecture is entitled "Outlaws:
Queer Art and Public Controversy Since the Culture Wars" and
will followed by a reception.¾ Marylandês
own Professor Sally Promey was a member of this yearês selection
committee. December
10 7:00 P.M. Joseph Cornell Lecture
and Book Signing
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