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The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center sponsors research in American Modernism by awarding stipends to historians in the fields of art, architecture & design, literature, music, and photography and to museum or other professionals who wish to have or extend curatorial experience.
The Research Center is pleased to announce the following scholars for the 2002-2003 research period:
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Scholars
2002-2003
Christina Grace Cogdell
Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies California State University, Fullerton
"Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s"
Jan 6, 2003 - Aug 5, 2003
8 months: guest curator of exhibition (title above)
Ms. Codgell’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
Ms. Goodman’s project investigates how the production and circulation of New Mexican art and folklore reveals a central paradox of the period and place: how to visualize and narrate a Southwest 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 2003 - Aug 2003
3 months
Ms. 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
Ms. 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, John 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, Ms. Schumacher’s dissertation will provide a fully articulated and sustained explanation of Frankenthaler’s aesthetic enterprise.
Ann Prentice Wagner
Ph.D. Candidate, Art-Sociology Bldg, University of Maryland
"Living on Paper: The Culture of Drawing in the Stieglitz Circle, 1903-1925"
Jan 2003 - March 2003
3 months
In her dissertation, Ms. 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"
Feb 2003 - April 2003
3 months
Ms. Woods’ project, a book on how artists, amateurs, journalists, and documentarians learned to see the “new” New York from 1890 until 1950, expands the visual canon of urban and architectural histories beyond conventional photographs of buildings.
Eumie Imm-Stroukoff
Librarian and Archives Manager
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
217 Johnson St.
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
505.946.1011 tel
505.946.1093 fax
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