Front Cover:

Rebecca Salsbury James (1891–1968)

Descansa en Paz, c. 1931
Oil on glass • 20 5/8 by 15 1/2 inches
Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Above:
Joseph Henry Sharp (1859–1953)
Evening on the Yellowstone, Montana, c. 1905
Oil on canvas • 12 by 18 inches
Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM

Southwest Art History Conference XXXI

PO Box 1891 October 9–11, 2019
Santa Fe, NM 87504 TAO S . N E W M E X I C O
SOUTHWEST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE XXXI
OCTOBER 9–11, 2019 • TAOS, NEW MEXICO
Wednesday, October 9
6:00 PM • Annual Anti-Social
Mabel Dodge Luhan House
Thursday, October 10
9:15 AM • OPENING REMARKS
Catherine Whitney, Philbrook Museum of Art, “Visualizing the Treaty and Native American
Tulsa, OK, President, SWAHC
9:30 AM • SESSION I
New Insights on
Joseph Henry Sharp
MODERATOR: Ellen Zieselman,
Independent Scholar, Santa Fe, NM
“The Joseph Henry Sharp Project at the
Buffalo Bill Center of the West,” Karen B.
McWhorter, Buffalo Bill Center of the West,
Cody, WY
“Self-Referential Reflections and Vanitas:
The Influence of Seventeenth-Century
Dutch Still Life Painting in the Late Work of
Joseph Henry Sharp,” Kelin Michael, Emory
University, Atlanta, GA
“Where We Were Working Best: Joseph Henry
Sharp on the Crow Reservation,” Sarah E.
Boehme, Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX
“J.H. Sharp and His Colleagues Return to
Taos,” Davison Koenig, Couse-Sharp
Historic Site, Taos, NM
Mark your calendars:
SWAHC XXXII: 7-9 October 2020
SWAHC XXXIII: 6-8 October 2021
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN Friday, October 11 2:30 PM • SESSION IV
9:30 AM • SESSION III Singular Characters
2:30 PM • SESSION II
Caught on Film Modernism Moves Around MODERATOR: Betsy Fahlman, Arizona
MODERATOR: Catherine Whitney, Philbrook State University, Tempe, AZ
MODERATOR: Louise Siddons, Oklahoma
State University, Stillwater, OK Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, President, SWAHC “A Mainer Goes West: William Herbert
“Buck” Dunton,” Michael K. Komanecky,
“‘I Saw You Dance, Domingo’: Marsden
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Sovereignty in The Invaders,” Wendy Marie Hartley’s New Mexican Santos,” Jeffrey
“Southwest by Southeast: The James
Castenell, University of Alabama, Richmond-Moll, University of Georgia
Tuscaloosa, AL Museum of Art, Athens, GA Museum of Western and Wildlife Art and
the Politics of Regional Colonialism,”
“Imogen Cunningham’s Plant Photography: “Artificial Flowers and Tinwork Frames in the Alexis L. Boylan, University of
Horticulture and Human Concern in Glass Paintings of Rebecca Salsbury James,” Connecticut, Storrs, CT
California, 1921-1935,” Ellen Macfarlane, Karli Wurzelbacher, The Baltimore Museum
University of Southern California, Los of Art, Baltimore, MD “Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and
Angeles, CA the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch,” Julie
“High Plains Modernist: Dord Fitz and Sasse, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
“Co-Opted Loyalty: Russell Lee’s Abstraction in Amarillo,” Francesca Giani,
Documentation of Mormon Utah, 1940,” University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
James Swensen, Brigham Young University, Sessions take place at
“‘Particularly Suitable for the Space’:
Provo, UT
Rethinking Georgia O’Keeffe and
The Mabel Dodge Luhan House
Reception: Midcentury Modern Design,” 240 Morada Lane, Taos, NM
seph Henry Sharp
5:30 to 6:30 PM • Jo oad, at the Couse- Sarah Rovang, Independent Scholar 18 guest rooms available ($116-$275)
on R
Studio, 146 Kit Cars cated at the end of LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1-800-846-2235 or 575-751-9686
lo
Sharp Historic Site, from the Mabel Reserve a room by October, 1 2019.
, ju st up When reserving mention the SWAHC confer-
Morada Lane
Dodge Lu ha n House. ence (there is no special conference rate, but
they do block out rooms for us).
To register, make checks out to “SWAHC” and mail to: For further information
Southwest Art History Conference, (including other places to
Box 1891, Santa Fe, NM 87504 Name Phone and or e-mail stay in Taos) or to receive
Advance conference the program in a PDF
registration: $70 format, please contact
At-the-door registration: $75 Betsy Fahlman at Arizona
Address
One day rate: $35 State University via e-mail
Please include your mailing (fahlman@asu.edu) or
address and phone number phone (480-965-2610).
and/or e-mail address. City/State Zip
You can register online by credit card at: https://www.southwestarthistory.org