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Transatlantic Pigments Project, 1760-1840 

Call for Graduate Student Participation in Kress-Funded Project 

Deadline February 16, 2024 

The Center for Virtual/Material Studies (CVMS) in the Department of Art History at Penn State invites graduate students to apply to participate in a project, funded by the Kress Foundation, addressing the transatlantic pigment trade from 1760 to 1840. The project circulates around a dataset, currently being generated by the CVMS, that records hundreds of newspaper advertisements for pigment sales in this period.   

Participants will attend two virtual seminars and two in-person convenings at Penn State with visiting faculty participants in 2024. The in-person events will consist of a private two-day seminar the third week of May 2024 and a public symposium related to our project the following autumn. In-person convenings will include hands-on sessions for making pigments according to period recipes, seminar meetings with guest faculty to discuss relevant texts, and an introduction to material analysis of pigments using methods such as pXRF and FTIR.  

Faculty participants will be Erma Hermens (Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge University), Jennifer van Horn (University of Delaware), Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University of London), Sean Silver (Rutgers), Caroline Kulp (Vassar), and Sarah Rich (Penn State). 

Among issues we hope to address in our convenings:  

-The origins and transatlantic itineraries of pigments between 1760 and 1840  

using documentary evidence and material analysis  

-Recovering histories of enslaved and incarcerated laborers  

-Indigenous pigment knowledge and its effects on transatlantic colorant trade 

-Local technologies and knowledge systems in conflict or concert  

with imported pigments 

-Shifting points of sale (apothecaries, grocers, ships at port) and identities of buyers 

-Storage, packaging, and inventory size of pigments along the market route 

-The effects of war on pigment trade; tariffs; boycotts 

-Market for pigments intended for art vs those intended for architecture, carriages… 

            -Smuggling, adulterated materials, piracy, black/gray markets, theft 

Graduate students of all levels are invited to apply. Four students will be chosen from among the applicants. The Kress Foundation has provided funding to support transportation, room, and board for everyone participating in this project. Applications should include a letter of intent that explains the student’s investment in the subject of transatlantic pigment trade in this period, the applicant’s curriculum vitae, and a letter of support from the student’s advisor. 

The application deadline is February 16.  Notifications of acceptance will be sent by March 1.  

Please email applications and queries to Carolyn Lucarelli, manager of the CVMS, [log in to unmask] 

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