Please join us for the 2016 Masters in Art History Candidate Symposium. This event is free and open to the public.

Schedule:

2:00-2:05 Welcome and opening remarks

2:05-2:35 RACHEL RAMSEY-BRUBAKER: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Gilded Age Mansion: the Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, Illinois

2:35-3:05 JIAYING GU: Landscaping My Mind: New Perceptions on Representing the Idea of Travel in Early 17th Century Garden Paintings

3:05-3:35 BRITTANY ROYER: City Beautiful Pictured: Arthur Mathews’s Provincial Aesthetic of Art, Architecture and Nature in San Francisco 1906-1915

3:35-3:50 Break

3:50-4:20 CRISTINA URRUTIA: Exhuming the Ancient Body: A Re-examination of the Classical Nude in Carracci’s Farnese Gallery

4:20-4:50 MAIZY ENCK: The Innovative Abstraction of Augustus Tack’s 1944 Theater Curtain for George Washington University

4:50-5:15 Group discussion and Q & A