The Department of Art History PhD candidates Lauren Lovings-Gomez, James McCabe, and Allison Springer, alongside Victoria Kenyon from the University of Delaware, will be participating in the College Art Association (CAA) Conference this Friday, February 14 in New York City in their panel "Troubling the Archive: Reassessing Women's Artistic Production in the Long Nineteenth Century."
The 113th CAA Annual Conference is the largest convening of art historians, artists, designers, curators, and visual art professionals who have the opportunity to participate in sessions, workshops, receptions, and book fairs.
Chaired by James McCabe, the panel will deliver the following presentations:
• Allison Springer: “Hidden Identities: Analyzing the Transatlantic Influence in American Visual Culture by Examining Subversive Forms of Representation of Women of Color in the Nineteenth Century”
• Victoria Kenyon: “Unobservable: Eunice Newton Foote and Photographic Evidence”
• James McCabe: “Julie Looks at Laure and Laure Looks Back: The Issue of Reproducing Édouard Manet’s Olympia in Julie Manet-Rouart’s Copies”
• Lauren Lovings-Gomez: “Unraveling Materiality: Anna Lea Merritt’s The Weaving Shed and the Transatlantic Textile Industry”
Visit the CAA website for the full conference schedule and more details.