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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA
Fall 2004
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Professor Crown to Retire
Patricia Crown taught classes with densely
worded lectures in a traditional style of teaching
that required students to memorize dates
and other facts. She won three teaching
awards using that technique.
After a long and distinguished career, Professor Patricia
Dahlman Crown will retire at the end of the fall 2004
semester. The department is organizing a daylong symposium
on Nov. 13 as a tribute to her.
Half a dozen scholars — all former students of hers —
will read papers. There will also be a distinguished plenary
speaker, Professor Anne Bermingham of the University of
California, Santa Barbara. A reception will follow the lectures.
The department encourages alumni and friends to
attend the symposium, which is indeed a tribute, reunion
and party. Further information will follow.
Pat, as she is fondly known to her colleagues, joined
the department in 1977, filling a newly created position in
the history of 18th-century
art. She had graduated
Phi Beta Kappa
and summa cum Laude
with a bachelor’s degree
in art history from the
University of Southern
California (USC) in
1956. Later, she pursued
graduate study at
the University of
California, Los Angeles
(UCLA), where she
received a master of
arts in 1972 and a doctorate
in 1977.
Osmund Overby
was chair of the department
in spring 1977 and
remembers recruiting
Crown for a position at
MU. “There were several
really good new PhDs in 18th- and 19th-century art on
the market,” he says. “We felt honored when Pat, our first
choice, accepted our invitation to be a part of MU.”
Crown took delight in her work. “I’ve never gotten
over the basic psychological fascination of the visual arts,
their aesthetic wonders and the mental delight of situating
them in their historical contexts,” she says.
Not only is that statement a tribute to her training at
UCLA and the nearby Huntington Library, it is also a fitting
description of what has distinguished Crown’s teaching
and research during her MU career. She is highly
regarded by her professional colleagues for her many
scholarly publications, the papers she has read for all the
appropriate learned societies and the museums for which
she has curated exhibitions and written catalogs.
The same qualities that have distinguished those contributions
have also infused her teaching. She holds
numerous teaching awards, culminating last fall in the
Maxine Christopher
Shutz Award and
Lecture for
Distinguished
Teaching. Running
through all this is her
passionate commitment
to equity for women,
both in the workplace
and in the sensitive
focus of scholarly
endeavor — another
reason for the enormous
respect accorded
Crown by her students
and colleagues.
A few years after
Patricia Crown, professor of art history and women’s studies, ends her
teaching career with a tribute from her peers and former students. An art
history course she taught on Women, Art and Society was cross-listed with
the Women’s Studies program.
Crown’s arrival, her
husband, Keith, a distinguished
watercolorist,
joined Columbia’s
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art circles. He had remained on the art faculty at the
University of Southern California, where he had been
since 1946, then followed Pat to Columbia in 1983 when
he retired from USC. Pat herself is a painter as well, and
some department members remember seeing her work in a
dual exhibition with Keith in the Davis Gallery at
Stephens College.
In addition to her many other qualities, Pat Crown is
known for a wonderful wit. “In recommending Crown to
us in 1977, a colleague of hers wrote about her collegiality,
how great she is to talk with, how ‘her conversation falls
naturally in academic cadences.’ What a line, and how
appropriate!” Overby says.
Gifts from Alumni, Friends
Aid Students and Faculty
The enduring contributions of former students, faculty
and friends live on through the department’s student fellowships.
Awards vary each year depending on available
resources and student needs.
Your donation to any of the fellowship funds makes a
real difference in department programs. Please make
checks in any amount payable to the MU Department of
Art History and Archaeology, and specify the fund you
wish to support.
• William R. Biers Fund helps undergraduate and
graduate archaeology students attend the summer
program of the American School of Classical
Studies in Athens.
• Development Fund, a general, unrestricted gift
fund, helps meet the many pressing needs of the
department.
• Edzard Baumann Fellowship supports travel
abroad by graduate art history students.
• Osmund Overby Fund is a resource for faculty
and students whose research and professional
interests focus on American Art, architecture and
historic preservation. The fund supports projects
pertaining to the study and interpretation of art
and architecture of cultural and historic sites in
"Near Williamstown," a watercolor painting by Patricia
Crown, features an autumn landscape in the Berkshire
Mountains of western Massachusetts. Most of her works are in
watercolor, and often the subject is landscape, in California, New
Mexico, the Midwest and England.
Missouri and the American Midwest.
• John Pickard Fellowship provides annual support
for one or more outstanding full-time graduate
students enrolled in the department.
• Herbert W. Schooling Fellowship provides annual
support to advanced graduate students in the
department in honor of MU’s former chancellor.
• Saul and Gladys Weinberg Traveling
Fellowship supports overseas research by graduate
students in classical archaeology.
Communiqué is published by the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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Nancy Moen
Dan Glover
The department appreciates hearing from alumni and friends. Send announcements or milestones to the address listed above.
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From left, Stephanie Pryor, Megan Thomsen, Robert Darby, Mark Hammond and
Professor Kathleen Slane following the AHA 401 presentations in fall 2003.
401 Presentations
Are a Ritual
First-year graduate students were subjected in November
to the ritual rite of passage commonly known as the 401
Papers. The semester-long 401 course culminated in the
public presentation of papers based on research conducted
on objects from the Museum of Art and Archaeology. This
year’s program focused on a host of ancient artifacts.
• “The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars: Who’s Who on a
Roman Bronze Military Medal” by Stephanie Pryor
(BA, Minnesota State University–Moorhead; MA,
Tufts University)
• “What Goes Around Comes Around: Mirror Plaques
and the Evil Eye in Late Antiquity” by
Mark D. Hammond (BA, Brock University)
• “A Roman Portrait of a Youth” by Robert
N. Darby (BA, Minnesota State
University–Moorhead; MA, Tufts
University)
• “Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire?” by
Megan L. Thomsen (BA, Indiana
University)
MU/KU
Symposium
The Art History and Archaeology
Graduate Student Association hosted
its 12th Annual Graduate
Student Symposium at MU in
March, in conjunction with the
graduate students of the University
of Kansas. This year’s theme of
“Exploring Boundaries: Concepts
of the Liminal in Art History and
Archaeology” brought a wide range
of topics from graduate students at
the University of Kansas, Florida
State University, Boston
University, Emory University and
University of Texas-Austin, as well
as from MU.
Alumna Nancy Locke presented
the keynote speech, “Lost in
(Liminal) Space?” Those presenting
from MU’s department included Julia
C. Menes with her paper, “The Tazza Farnese: Hellenistic
or Roman?” and Abigail R. Haworth with “Sculpturae
Vitam Insufflat Pictura: Pygmalion, Gerome and Tinted
Sculpture.”
Nearly all MU graduate students from the department
were involved with the event: Haworth, as symposium
coordinator, Menes and Rebecca Roe, as co-presidents of
AHAGSA, and Robert Darby, Megan Thomsen, Stephanie
Pryor, Nathan Elkins, Mark Hammond, Ethan Gannaway
and Amy Benedict.
The graduate students thanked the department faculty
and staff, especially Daffany Hood and Beth Kopine, for
their support.
Degrees Awarded
December 2003
Ben Briggs, BA
Kelli Bruce Hansen, MA
Kimberly Herr, BA
Tara Kempen, BA
Benton Kidd, PhD
Hajime Kuroda, BA
Naomi Myers, BA
Randy Temple, BA
Devon Wilson, BA
May 2004
Shannon Bartel, BA
Lisa Moore Hunt, PhD
Kay Hunvald, PhD
Aimee Leonhard, MA
Julia Menes, MA
Leslie Tilly, BA
Yang Wang, BA
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Faculty
Kudos
Pat Crown received the College of Arts and Science
Purple Chalk Award for teaching and the Maxine Shutz
Distinguished Teaching Award. The latter included a banquet
in her honor to mark the occasion and publication of
the article “Images of Aged Women Artists in the 18th
Century” by the University of Missouri Press. Crown
gave a talk and colloquium on Dorothea Lisiewska-
Therbusch at Northwestern University as part of its seminar
in 18th-century studies, and she presented a paper
on self–portraits by women artists at the Debartolo
Conference on 18th-century Studies at the University of
South Florida. She also chaired sessions at annual meetings
of the Society for Eighteenth Century Studies in
Chicago and Los Angeles. She will present a paper, “The
Child in the Visual Culture of Consumption 1790-1830,”
at Chawton House, Hampshire, England, at the conference
titled “Women and Material Culture.”
Keith Eggener earned promotion to associate professor
with tenure in fall 2003. Among his publications during
academic year 2003-04 were essays in Cruauté &
Utopie: Villes et Paysages d’Amérique Latine, catalog for
an exhibition held in Brussels, Belgium, at the Centre
International pour la Ville, l’Architecture et le Paysage
(now being translated into English and published by
Princeton Architectural Press) and the Tokyo-based architectural
journal A+U, in a special issue on modern
Mexico. Most recently, his American Architectural
History: A Contemporary Reader was published by
Routledge, London. Eggener continues to serve as associate
editor of the Buildings of the United States series,
a project sponsored by the Society of Architectural
Historians, and he was recently named chair of that
series’ interim editorial committee. Ongoing projects
include a book on American cemeteries, which is forthcoming
as part of the Norton/Library of Congress Visual
Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design, and Engineering
series, and a book tentatively titled Modernity and
Mortality in 20th Century American Architecture.
Eggener will be on leave during academic year 2004-05.
John Klein gave an invited paper on Paul Gauguin’s
legacy in the 20th century at an international Gauguin
conference at the University of French Polynesia in
Papeete, Tahiti; the paper was published in the proceedings
later in the year. He traveled again to the Pacific
during the summer to give lectures on a cruise ship and
to participate in the Gauguin centenary festivities in the
Marquesas Islands. Klein gave an invited lecture at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison on Henri Matisse’s late
decorative projects, the subject of his book in progress.
He continues as director of graduate studies in the
department and serves on the Honors Council of the
College of Arts and Science and on the museum advisory
committee of the Museum of Art and Archaeology.
Susan Langdon presented a paper, “Constructions of
Childhood in the Ancient World,” for a conference at the
Hood Museum at Dartmouth College in November, and
her paper, “Power and Hierarchy in the History of
Civilizations,” was read in Moscow at the Third
International Congress. She was very sorry not to attend!
One of the highlights of her year was trying out a new
undergraduate topics course on Art and Gender in the
Ancient World. She continues progress on her book on art
and society in early Iron-Age Greece, a project for which
she received Research Council and Research Board grants.
In fall 2003, Norman Land stepped down as director of
undergraduate studies and assumed the mantle of acting
chair for the period of one academic year (2003-04). He
managed, nevertheless, to publish one article “Poetry and
Anecdote in Carlo Ridolfi’s Life of Titian,” in The
Cambridge Companion to Titian, edited by Patricia
Meilman, and to deliver one lecture, “Titian and
Michelangelo,” for the Southeastern College Art
Conference at North Carolina State University and
Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C. In spring 2003, he completed
terms on the faculty council and the research council.
He also accepted an invitation from the South Central
Renaissance Conference to serve as program chair for
Exploring the Renaissance, 2005, a conference to be held
at Pepperdine University, in Malibu, Calif., in March.
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Marcus Rautman spent the past year on leave to work
on a book about daily life in Byzantium. His article on
“Valley and Village in Late Roman Cyprus,” appeared in
Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside, edited
by W. Bowden, L. Lavan and C. Machado. He contributed
several entries to the exhibition catalog
Testament of Time: Selected Objects from the Collection
of Palestinian Antiquities in the Museum of Art and
Archaeology, edited by Jane Biers and James Terry.
In her third year at MU, Kristin Schwain continued to participate
in the Young Scholars in American Religion
Program, which brings together 10 junior faculty working
on the history of religion in America from a variety of disciplinary
perspectives. Led by two prominent figures in the
field and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion
and American Culture, Schwain attended two weekend
conferences in Indianapolis to discuss scholarship and
teaching. She traveled to Atlanta to deliver a paper at the
American Academy of Religion Annual Conference in
November. The subject of her talk, African-American artist
Henry Ossawa Tanner, will also be the subject of a chapter
of her book, “Signs of Grace: Religious Experience and
Visual Practice in Modernist American Art.” Thanks to a
research leave funded by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Research Center, Schwain will spend next year in Santa
Fe, N.M., completing the manuscript.
Kathleen Slane was honored to be invited to participate
in a classical colloquium in honor of the 250th birthday
of the British Museum in November. The centerpiece
was the newly discovered sculpture from Augustus’ victory
monument near Actium, which anticipates the Ara
Pacis reliefs. Attendees also heard from many other
Greek ephoreias and about recent Italian finds in Libya
as well. She attended a Roman pottery conference in
Sicily and is therefore able to report that spring in
Catania is exactly in step with spring in Columbia (the
redbuds were in bloom everywhere), but Mt. Etna was
invisible in a cloud bank. Next year she and her dog are
off again to do research in Corinth.
Professor Anne Stanton survived her first year as director
of undergraduate studies for the department and
hopes that next year will not add too many more gray
hairs when new course numbers are implemented
across the University. One pleasant development was
the resurrection of Arts Spectrum, the undergraduate
AHA group, under the capable leadership of Yang Wang
and Hannah Johnson, who organized pizza nights, field
trips and movie nights. Stanton enjoyed helping three of
her graduate students, Kelli Bruce Hansen, Aimee
Leonhard and Lisa Moore Hunt, complete their master’s
theses and doctoral dissertations. Stanton’s professional
events included acting as program co-chair, with history
Professor Lois Huneycutt, for this year’s Mid-America
Medieval Association meeting at MU in February. When
bad weather forced the plenary speaker to cancel,
Stanton gave a plenary lecture on “The Patronage of
Isabelle of France.” She also organized and chaired a
session for the International Center for Medieval Art on
“Rulers and their Images: Patronage and Power” at the
39th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies
at Kalamazoo, Mich. Her book chapter on “Isabelle of
France and her Manuscripts, 1308-1358,” (Capetian
Women, edited by Kathleen Nolan) was published in late
2003, and a chapter on “The Other Miss Rickert:
Margaret Rickert (1888-1973) and the Study of
Illuminated English Manuscripts,” (Women Medievalists
in the Academy, edited by Jane Chance) should appear
by December 2004.
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Alumni News
Lisa Auanger, PhD ’97, continues to enjoy teaching Latin in
a secondary school at Hampton Roads, Va. She spent the
spring hunting for an apartment in a quiet neighborhood.
Claudia Einecke, PhD ’94, accepted a position in the
European Painting and Sculpture Department at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art. She is working on an
exhibition of the late (i.e. post-1881) paintings of
Auguste Renoir, everybody’s favorite. The show is
scheduled to open in Ferrara, Italy, in September 2005
and will be in Los Angeles in early 2006.
Alice Fugate, MA ’80, received an appointment to the
Landmarks Preservation Commission of Chesterfield,
Mo., which is developing a local historic register of buildings
and archaeological sites. Fugate and her husband,
Steve LoGrasso, are celebrating their 15th wedding
anniversary with a trip to Portugal, Spain and France.
Rachel Gagnon, an art history minor who graduated in
May 2004, is a summer intern at the Pulitzer Institute
of the Arts in St. Louis. She works in promotion and
public outreach.
Leslie Hammond, PhD ’98, has been appointed director
of curatorial affairs at the Appleton Museum of Art at
Florida State University and Central Florida Community
College in Ocala, Fla.
Kelli [Bruce] Hansen, MA ’03, finished her master’s thesis
on medieval Spanish manuscripts in December 2003
and works as manager of print collections in the Division
of Special Collections and Rare Books at MU’s Ellis Library.
Christian Hill, BA ’92, Phi Beta Kappa, has published an
article, “Narrative Aesthetics of Time and Space in the
Comics Series ‘Broussaille,’” in the International Journal
of Comic Art. He is a comic artist and a member of the
steering committee of the National Association of
Comic Art Educators.
Lisa Moore Hunt, MA ’96, PhD ’04, wrote her dissertation
on “Illuminating the Borders of Northern French
and Flemish Manuscripts, ca. 1270-1310,” and reports
that the defense went well. In fall, she will be a visiting
assistant professor of medieval art at the College of
Wooster in Ohio.
Elizabeth Kramer, MA ’99, presented a paper, “Rethinking
‘Japan Mania’: Popular Consumption and the
Gendering of Japan,” at the College Art Association,
where she reunited with other MU art history students
Debra Byrne and Elizabeth Hunt. She also published an
article, “The Feminization of Japan,” which is on the
influence of Japanese decorative art in 19th-century
England. She continues to research Japanese and
Anglo-Japanese textiles for her dissertation and teaches
part time at the University of Manchester, England.
Julia Menes, MA ’04, is moving to China in August to
teach English at Capital Normal University. She recently
won Photograph of the Year honors from Columbia
Photo in Columbia for an image she captured during a
recent trip to Machu Picchu, Peru.
A book by Frankie Morris, PhD ’85, Artist of Wonderland:
The Life, Political Cartoons and Illustrations of Tenniel, will
be published by the University of Virginia Press.
Danielle Parks, PhD ’99, was promoted and awarded
tenure in the classics department at Brock University in
March 2004.
Julie Plax, PhD ’89, gave a paper at the National Gallery
of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in a
symposium for the exhibition “French Genre Painting in
the Eighteenth Century.”
Breanne Robertson, BA ’03, just completed her first
year of graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin.
She was selected to present a paper at the Eleanor
Greenhill Symposium in spring and invited to return to the
Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.,
as an intern in summer 2004. In the fall, she will begin a
paid internship in the education department at the
Blanton Museum at the University of Texas.
William Rossi, MA ’79, teaches at the University of
Oregon and has recently edited a book on Henry
David Thoreau.
Joe Stumpf, PhD ’03, received a CAORC postgraduate
fellowship from the American Center for Oriental
Research. He plans to be in residence in Amman, as
well as traveling around Jordan, from May 25 to Aug. 25.
Billur Tekkok, PhD ’96, spent most of the year in
Cincinnati as Margot Tytus visiting fellow while working
on the final publication of the Hellenistic and Roman
pottery from Troy. This summer she returns to Turkey,
where she will be working with the Granicus and Tarsus
projects as well as visiting Samothrace, Greece and Troy
before she returns to Cincinnati in the fall.
Yang Wang, BA ’04, completed an honors thesis,
“Contemporary Chinese Painting: Redefining the
Images of the Cultural Revolution,” in which she examined
how four contemporary Chinese artists deployed
the popular culture of the Revolution to explore the
Communist legacy and its influence on personal and
national identity. Wang later delivered a paper based on
her thesis at the Portland State University National
Spring Symposium in Portland, Ore. She is working for
the summer in the Asian art department at the St. Louis
Art Museum.
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Emeriti
Faculty
William Biers continued his travels during the fall
semester. He sandwiched a lecture tour for the
Archaeological Institute of America to Williamsburg,
Va., Buffalo, N.Y., and Toronto between an extended
trip to England and Wales for a family wedding and a
visit to Paris and Normandy in November. Annual
trips to Northern California and Vancouver, as well as
to New York, Chicago and the January AIA Meeting
in San Francisco rounded out his journeys. The second
semester was taken up in a revival of AHA 222:
Ancient Technology, which enrolled 53 students,
with engineering students forming the majority.
Howard Marshall stays extremely busy with
research and writing projects — not to mention helping
Margot keep track of the cows, sheep, horses,
chickens and dogs at their farm in Callaway County.
He continues to present programs on the fiddle
music of the Lewis and Clark era for museums, historical
societies, festivals and such. In March, he
was in Ireland doing archival research for a project
on the history of traditional fiddle music in Missouri.
His article on opera singer Jenny Lind — The
Swedish Nightingale — and her 1840s polka, which
is still played throughout the U.S. and Canada, is in
the forthcoming issue of Missouri Folklore Society
Journal. Marshall’s 2003 book, Barns of Missouri:
Storehouses of History, sold out and is in its second
printing; it seems to be selling well enough that the
publishers (www.ruralmissouri.org) have not yet
made it widely available in bookstores. Marshall
reports that if he hadn’t taken MU’s early retirement
offer, he could not have completed his “barn book,”
which he worked on for 30 years. He continues to
work with Osmund Overby on their forthcoming
tome, Buildings of Missouri. He encourages alumni
to contact him at MarshallH@missouri.edu.
Osmund Overby is still giving major attention to
Buildings of Missouri, a volume in the series
Buildings of the United States, sponsored by the
Society of Architectural Historians. Others with AHA
connections are helping — Howard Marshall, Keith
Eggener, Deb Sheals and Becky Snider — as well as
colleagues from Truman State University and Drury
University. Because St. Louis has been a focus of
many of his scholarly publications and preservation
efforts over the past 40 years, Overby was especially
gratified to receive the President’s Award from the
Landmarks Association of St. Louis for 2004. The
award was presented by their president, Jamie
Cannon, at the annual membership meeting at the
venerable St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church.
This congregation of extraordinarily dedicated parishioners
manages to hold its own, even prosper, in the
urban battlefield of north St. Louis, a welcome success
to preservationists.
Students at Work
Summer jobs, internships and presentations
engage MU’s students
In addition to being coordinator of the annual MU/KU
graduate symposium, Abby Hayworth presented papers at
three events this year. At the 28th annual meeting of the
Mid-American Medieval Association, she presented “The
Becket Windows at Canterbury: Their Importance in the
Cult of Becket.” At the MU/KU graduate student symposium
and the 39th annual graduate student symposium
hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago, she presented
“Sculpturae Vitam Insufflat Pictura: Pygmalion, Gérome and
Tinted Sculpture.”
Lauren Kling is working this summer as an intern at
Art St. Louis, a not-for-profit visual arts organization that
promotes local artists. She is setting up exhibits and writing
for their magazine.
Kristin Patterson, a junior, will spend her summer
working as an intern at the St. Louis Art Museum
(SLAM). As one of eight summer interns, she will work
under the museum’s curator of early European art. SLAM
is beginning to reinstall its nine galleries in the early
European department, requiring intern assistance in verifying
and completing a catalog and bibliography for each
work in that collection. Patterson’s main responsibility will
be researching histories of works by followers of Hugo van
der Goes, Rogier van der Weyden and others.
Kaitlyn Stout, a minor in art history, worked as an
intern to the curator of the education division of the New
Orleans Museum of Art. She will create teacher-workshops
to help educators integrate the museum’s collection into
classroom activities.
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From the Acting Chair
By Norman Land
Norman Land
I have had the honor and privilege to serve as acting department
chair during academic year 2003-04 while Associate Professor
Marcus Rautman was on leave to finish his latest book. Because of
the goodwill and generous assistance of my colleagues, the task
was not as difficult as I had expected it to be. Indeed, on the
whole, the time has been enjoyable and rewarding. I need hardly
mention that our office staff — Daffany Hood, Beth Kopine and
Erin Squires — deserve all of the credit for making the course of
our days run smoothly. We would be lost without them.
As I blithely return to my normal duties, I am pleased to
report that the department continues to welcome new undergraduate
majors as well as new graduate students into its program.
In addition, I am happy to announce that when Marcus
again takes the helm as chair on Aug. 1, he will assume a new
and well-deserved title. Congratulations to Professor Marcus
Rautman on his recent promotion!
Please keep in touch. We like to hear from you. If you are in
town, please stop by for a chat.