HART PhD candidate Lauren Lovings-Gomez was awarded the Marie Zimmermann Research Grant from the Decorative Arts Trust earlier this year and used the funds to travel to Washington DC, Delaware, and Ohio visiting a number of museums and archives for research on her dissertation โMateriality, Innovation, and Women Artists in 19th-Century Britain.โ
Lauren closely examined manuscripts, paper drawings, and artist correspondences at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in D.C. before venturing to the Delaware Art Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art, a familiar place to Lauren as she earned her MA at Case Western Reserve University.
To learn more about Laurenโs research this semester at each city, read her write-up in the Decorative Arts Trust Bulletin.
Laurenโs research interests include British, French, and American art during the long nineteenth-century with a focus on Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, the Arts & Crafts Movement, women artists, gender representation, and material culture.
[Image 1: Lauren Lovings-Gomez studying portrait miniatures by Winifred Sandys at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE.; Image 2: Lauren Lovings-Gomez observing ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช under the microscope in the paper conservation lab at the Cleveland Museum of Art.; Image 3: Christina Georgina Rossetti, ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช, c. 1853, England. Graphite, sheet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2010.462.]
Photos: Decorative Arts Trust