Henriette Ronner, Kitten at Play (The Young Artist), oil on canvas on panel, ca. 1870.
Henriette Ronner, Kitten at Play (The Young Artist), oil on canvas on panel, ca. 1870

Professor Yonan, art history and cats

  • by Staff

Professor Michael Yonan recently presented a paper titled “Modernism is a Cat” at the symposium Animal Modernities: Images, Objects, Histories 1750–1900, held at Dartmouth College on Oct. 13, 2022.

The essay is part of a project on cats in artists’ studios that he is co-writing with Amy Freund, Southern Methodist University.

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Art History