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UW Graduate Students of Art History Symposium on American Art May 15, 2009 1–5 pm Nordstrom Lecture Hall

Join graduate students from the University of Washington's art history department for a symposium on American Art in conjunction with the special exhibition Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery.

Schedule:
1 pm
Welcome

1:15 pm
Identity of an American Woman: Eve as Self-Portrait
Shayla Alarie

1:45 pm
Thomas Dewing’s Summer (1890) and Charles Courtney Curram’s At the Sculpture Garden (1895): A Study of Late Nineteenth-Century American Femininity
Kimberly Hereford

2:15 pm
Evil Industry: The Idea of the "Machine in the Garden" in Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
Alexand McLafferty

2:45–3:15 pm
BREAK

3:15 pm
Street Scenes: William Glackens's and John Sloan's Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock
John Impert

3:45 pm
The Enduring Power of Myth: The Paintings of Kent Monkman
Erin Fossum

4:15 pm
Common Existence: The Spirit Photography of William Mumler
Trevor Doak

Free and open to the public.