2016
Southwest Art History Conference
Front Cover:
James Stovall Morris (1889–1973)
Velorio (Valorio), (detail), n.d.
Oil on canvas-board panel, 17 7/8 x 24 in.
On long term loan to the New Mexico
Museum of Art from the Fine Arts
Program, Public Buildings Service, U.S.
General Services Administration
(1477.23P) Photo by Blair Clark.
Information: Betsy Fahlman
at fahlman@asu.edu
XXVIII
Above:
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943)
New Mexico Landscape, 1919–20
Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 in.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
PO Box 1891
Santa Fe, NM 87504 TA O S , N E W M E X I C O
OCTOBER 12–14, 2016
SOUTHWEST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE XXVIII
OCTOBER 12–14, 2016 • TAOS, NEW MEXICO 2:30 PM • SESSION IV
Wednesday, October 12
6:00 PM • Annual Anti-Social
Mabel Dodge Luhan House
Thursday, October 13
9:15 AM • OPENING REMARKS
Catherine Whitney, Chief Curator and Curator
of American Art, Philbrook Museum of Art,
Tulsa, OK, President, SWAHC
9:30 AM • SESSION I
Departures in Western
Modernism
MODERATOR: Betsy Fahlman, Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ
“American Moderns, Spiritual Seekers:
Hartley, O’Keeffe, and Pelton in Taos,”
Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, IN
“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Soldier:
Doel Reed’s WWI Diary,” Rebecca P.
Brienen, Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater, OK
“Greenbergian Petroglyphs: Raymond
Jonson’s Search for Ancient Modernism,”
Nathan K. Rees, University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks, ND
“Maine—New Mexico: American Painting
and the Meaning of Place, 1910–1935,”
Michael K. Komanecky, Farnsworth Art
Museum, Rockland, ME
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
Mark your calendars:
SWAHC XXIX: 11-13 Oct. 2017
SWAHC XXX: 10-12 Oct. 2018
2:30 PM • SESSION II
The Road Less Traveled
MODERATOR: Marie Watkins, Emerita,
Furman University, Greenville, SC
“Highways and Skyways in the Rural Modern
Westward Migration,” Amanda C. Burdan,
Brandywine River Museum of Art,
Chadds Ford, PA
“An Unoriginal View?: The Trial of William
Henry Jackson’s The Palisades, Alpine
Pass,” Katherine Mintie, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
“Critiquing the New West: Photographs of
Suburban Denver and Albuquerque by
Robert Adams and Joe Deal, ca. 1975,”
Emilia Mickevicius, Brown University,
Providence, RI
“Ernest Thompson Seton and the
Exploration of Canada’s Fabled Aylmer
Lake,” David L. Witt, Curator, Seton Legacy
Project, Academy for the Love of Learning,
Santa Fe, NM
Reception:
wood Museum,
5:30 to 6:30 PM, Har ed by the Harwood
ponsor
238 Ledoux St., co-s uthwest Art History
Museum and the So ce.
Conferen
To register, make checks out to “SWAHC” and mail to:
Southwest Art History Conference,
Box 1891, Santa Fe, NM 87504
Advance conference
Name
registration: $65
At-the-door registration: $70
Address
One day rate: $35
Please include your mailing
address and phone number
and/or e-mail address. City/State
Friday, October 14
9:30 AM • SESSION III
Consider the Source: Native
People and Provenance
MODERATOR: Ellen Zieselman, Independent
Scholar, Santa Fe, NM
“Making/Marketing/Collecting: Louis Potter’s
The Basket Weavers (1905),” Carol Clark,
William McCall Vickery 1957 Professor of the
History of Art, Emerita, Amherst College,
Amherst, MA
“The ‘Indian Princess’ of the West:
Contemporary Monuments to Sacagawea
and the Changing American Pantheon,”
Sierra Rooney, Stony Brook University,
Stony Brook, NY
“Playing Indian: Frank Lloyd Wright and
Southwestern Indian Imagery,” Elizabeth S.
Hawley, The Graduate Center, City University
of New York, New York, NY
“Finding a Contemporary Voice: the
Legacy of Lloyd Kiva New and IAIA,”
Carmen C. Vendelin, Silver City Museum,
Silver City, NM
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
Phone and or e-mail
Zip
California Dreaming
MODERATOR: Catherine Whitney,
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
“California Dreamers: Avant-Garde
Self-Fashioning in the Early Portraits of
Imogen Cunningham and Edward
Weston,” Sasha Nicholas, The Graduate
Center, City University of New York,
New York, NY
“Light and Space and the California
Dream,” Francesca Giani, University of
Oklahoma, Norman, OK
“Representing La Raza: Photography and
the Chicano Movement.” Amy Scott, Chief
Curator and Marilyn B. and Calvin B.
Gross Curator of Visual Arts, Autry
National Center, Los Angeles, CA
Sessions take place at
The Mabel Dodge Luhan House
240 Morada Lane, Taos, NM
18 guest rooms available ($98-$245)
1-800-846-2235 or 575-751-9686
Reserve a room by October, 1 2015. When re-
serving mention the SWAHC conference
(there is no special conference rate, but they
do block out rooms for us).
For more information
(including other places to
stay in Taos) or to receive
the program in a PDF
format, please contact
Betsy Fahlman at Arizona
State University via e-mail
(fahlman@asu.edu) or
phone 480-965-2610).