ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation / Thesis: “LIVING ON PAPER ...

Research for my dissertation has taken me to a variety of museums and other
institutions in various parts of the United States. I extend my heartfelt thanks to the
following people who have found art and archival materials for me, answered my
questions, and contributed to my work in countless other ways: Stephanie Cassidy and
Pamela Koob at the Art Students League in New York; Linda Ferber at the Brooklyn
Museum of Art; the staff of Kennedy Galleries in New York; Megan Heuer, Sandi Peters,
Cynthia Iavarone, Lisa Mintz Messinger, and other staff of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York; Kathleen Curry and David Moreno at the Museum of Modern Art; Lisa
Bush Hankin at what was then the Richard York Gallery and is now Meredith Ward Fine
Art in New York; Ann B. Percy, John Ittmann, Wendy Thompson and the other staff of
the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Sara Duke
and Katherine Blood of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the staff of the
Amarillo Museum of Art in Amarillo, Texas; Barbara Hinde and other staff of the Glore
Print Study Room of the Jean and Stephen Golden Study Center at the Art Institute of
Chicago; Taran Schindler, John Monahan, Kate Ganski, and the other staff at the
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; Suzanne Greenawalt
and Mimi Cole of the Print Room at the Yale University Art Gallery; Sister Marjorie
Buttner, Archivist of the Dominican Mother House at the Sinsinawa Mound Center in
Wisconsin; the staff of the Wisconsin Historical Society; and Amy Rule at the Center for
Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona.
My dissertation came from my long interest in drawing and watercolor that began
when I was a fine art student. I would never have found this rewarding area of art history
without John Bledsoe, III, my art teacher at Walter Johnson High School, who made sure
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