Students

Since the late 1960's Dr. Weisberg has taught a number of art historians whose subsequent work has influenced others in universities, museums, governmental funding agencies, galleries, archives, libraries and through publications that have been widely available, A number of these students, and where they came into contact with Professor Weisberg, are enumerated here.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO (1967-69):

Clive F. Getty, received MA, 1969. Now Professor of Art History, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Widely regarded as the foremost expert on the prints and drawings of Grandville.

Joseph Baillio, a native of Louisiana, obtained his Ph.d. from the University of Rochester in 1983 with a dissertation on the painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842). He has published extensively on French painting of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries in a number of journals, including the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, L'Oeil, Apollo, Burlington Magazine, and The Metropolitan Museum Journal. In 1982, he curated and catalogued the only monographic exhibition ever devoted to the work of Vigée Le Brun. He also organized and catalogued exhibitions on French drawings of the XVIIIth century; the watercolors, drawings and oil paintings of the sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye; and the relationship between politics and the arts during the French Revolution. He has lectured at the University of Rochester, The Frick Collection in New York; the High Museum in Atlanta, the Art Institute of Chicago; the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Ct. and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Among his credits are numerous entries he has written for the catalogue of Old Master paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Systematic Catalogue of French Painting between the XVIth and XVIIIth Centuries at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. In 1994 the French government awarded him the Ordre National du Mérite and in 2003 France's Ministère de la Culture made him a member of the prestigious Ordre des Arts et Lettres. He is the author of forthcoming catalogues raisonnés of the works of the French artists Vigée Le Brun, Jean Marc Nattier, Hubert Robert (paintings only) and is also actively involved in the preparation of a critical catalogue of the sculptures and drawings of the sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon.

Mayching Kao, received MA, 1969. Formerly Professor of Art History and Dean, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Open University of Hong Kong. Has published extensively on twentieth century art movements in the Far East and Chinese art history.

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI (1969-1973):

Laurinda Dixon, Professor of Art History, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse, University. Received MA in 1972 with a specialization in Northern Renaissance art. Has become one of the key experts on the history of alchemical imagery and the visual arts and women and the work of Hieronymous Bosch. Her most recent book on Bosch was published (2003) by Phaidon. She has worked with Dr. Weisberg on several significant publishing projects including The Documented Image (Syracuse University Press, 1987) and currently In Sickness and in Health: Disease as Metaphor in Art and Popular Wisdom (University of Delaware Press and the Associate University Presses).

Peggy A. Loar, Former Director of the American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California. She received MA in 1972 with a thesis on the printmaker Charles Meryon. Ms. Loar has served as Director of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Program and Director of the Wolfsonian Foundation (and museum) Miami Beach, Florida.

Marsha Semmel, received MA in 1973. She has served as Director of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. and is now Special Assistant for Strategic Partnerships, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, D.C.. Ms. Semmel has also served as President and CEO of the Women of the West Museum having recently published an extensive article on her experience there in Museum News (2003)

Sally Webster, Professor of Art History, Lehmann College and member of the Graduate Program at CUNY. She received the MA in 1974. Professor Webster has widely published in American art and her new book on the 1893 mural by Mary Cassatt, in the Women's Building at the Chicago Fair (1893), will be published in the Spring, 2004 by the University of Illinois Press.

Roger Wieck, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. New York. Received MA in June 1973 majoring in Northern Renaissance art. Wieck's publications include Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art.

IN MEMORIAM:

Two MA students who worked closely with me at the University of Cincinnati have since passed away. They are noted here:

Guy C. McElroy received his MA in 1972. Guy wrote an MA Thesis on "Robert Duncanson: A Problem in Romantic-Realism in American Art." After graduating from Cincinnati, McElroy pursued the Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland, receiving it in 1990. He published a very influential book on Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940, (1990). Severely injured in a car accident, Guy never fully recovered from this traumatic incident passing away in 1991.

Richard S. Schneiderman received his MA in 1972. Dedicated to the history of graphic art, Schneiderman wrote an MA Thesis on the work of Sir Francis Seymour-Haden. After graduating from Cincinnati, Schneiderman received a Ph.D. in art history from SUNY, Binghamton. He held a series of museum positions including Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Georgia Museum of Art, Director of the Georgia Museum of Art and Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh). He published two important books one on the prints of Seymour-Haden (A Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1983) and one on the work of the French nineteenth century etcher Charles Meryon (Charles Meryon. The Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints (1990). Schneiderman passed away in 1999.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (1985-):

Joan Rothfuss, Formerly Senior Curator and Curator of the Permanent Collection, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Received MA in 1988. Joan has published extensively on twentieth century and contemporary art.

Alastair Wright, Formerly Assistant Professor of Art History, Princeton University, he is now Lecturer in Art History, Oxford University, Oxford, England; he received his MA in 1989. Alastair's Plan B paper on Jules Bastien-Lepage was published in The Gazette des Beaux-Arts. He received the Ph.d. from Columbia University and the University of California Press published his first book, Matisse and the Subject of Modernism in 2004.

Lisa Michaux, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Dr. Michaux received the MA in 1989 and the Ph.d. from Minnesota in 2001. Her dissertation served as the basis for an exhibition and publication on the formation of the Ladd Collection of prints at the MIA (2006). The book, accompanying this show, was Herschel V. Jones, the Imprtin of a Great Collector (Distributed by the University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

Jennifer Komar Olivarez, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Jennifer Komar received her MA in 1990. She has published extensively on the history of design in Minnesota and throughout the mid-west region.

Colleen Denney, Professor of Art History and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Women's Studies, University of Wyoming, Laramie. Dr. Denney received the Ph.d. in 1990. Her dissertation was subsequently published as part of an exhibition catalogue on the Grosvenor Art Gallery at the British Art Center at Yale (1996) and as an independent book, At the Temple of Art, The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877- 1890 (Associated University Presses, Inc., 2000). Her book Representing Diana, Princess of Wales, Cultural Memory and Fairy Tales Revisted (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press) was published in 2005.

Kristi Holden, Adjunct Professor, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Dr. Holden received her Ph.d. (Minnesota) in 1996 and has published various aspects of her work on English l9th century naturalists in international journals such as Apollo.

Deanna Bendix, Freelance editor/writer for popular press and newspapers in Minnesota. Dr. Bendix received the Ph.d. from Minnesota in 1992; her dissertation on Whistler was subsequently published by the Smithsonian Institution Press (1995). She continues to research various aspects of Whistler's life and career.

Jennifer Howe, formerly Associate Curator of Decorative Art, The Cincinnati Art Museum; now freelance curator and researcher. Received MA in 1997. Her publications include Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors, (Edited), The Cincinnati Art Museum and Ohio University Press, 2003.

Elizabeth K. Menon, Assistant Professor of Art History, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. Menon received the Ph.d. from Minnesota in 1994; her dissertation was subsequently published as a book (Peter Lang, 1998). She has worked with Professor Weisberg on projects including an annotated bibliography on Design Reform literature in the era of Art Nouveau (Garland, 1998). Her articles have appeared widely in international journals; an essay was published in Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2001). She was a presenter at the international symposium on Art Nouveau at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, in January, 2005. Bing and Art Nouveau was published as Symposium Proceedings as part of the continuing publication program of AHNCA and Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide on line. Dr. Menon's new book Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme Fatale was published by the University of Illinois Press, 2006; it was reviewed at 19thc-artworldwide.org in the Spring, 2007 issue.

Julie L'Enfant, Associate Professor of Art History at The College of Visual Arts, St. Paul. Dr. L'Enfant received the Ph.d. in 1996; her dissertation on William Michael Rossetti's art criticism was subsequently published as a book by the University Press of America, Inc. (1999). Dr. L'Enfant's most recent book, published by Afton Historical Society Press (St. Paul, MN) (2002), examined the tradition of creativity of the Gag family and has become both highly praised and widely read.

Janet Whitmore is a freelance writer, curator and editor with considerable experience in art history and architectural history. She has recently completed co-organizing the exhibition "Currents of Change, Art and Life Along the Mississippi River, 1850-1861" for The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; she also served as a co-author of the catalogue (distributed by The University of Minnesota Press, 2004). She is also currently co-editing and writing "Architectural Visions in the Northland: Cass Gilbert and Design Reform" for The University of Minnesota Press. Her work on the origins and significance of the T.B. Walker Collection (for which she received the Ph.d. in 2002) is being readied for publication. She was also a contributor to Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture.

Elizabeth J. Fowler is continuing her tenure track position, begun in 2004, at Syracuse University; she completed her dissertation on "The Rookwood Sage: Kataro Shirayamadani, Japanism, Art Nouveau and the American Art Pottery Movement" in 2005. This work will serve as the basis for a book and exhibition catalogue for a proposed exhibition on Shirayamadani, the sage of the Rookwood Pottery organization, at The Cincinnati Art Museum and in Japan. Dr. Fowler's position at Syracuse University focuses on closely working with designers as she in Assistant Professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Debra Hegstrom successfully defended her Ph.d. dissertation "Gustav Stickley and American Home-Making in The Craftsman': Gender and Design Issues, 1890-1915". Her degree was granted in June, 2007. Ms. Hegstrom holds a permanent position as a member of the Education staff at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Lynsi Spaulding completed her MA degree in art history in 2006. Her review of "Currents of Change, Art and Life Along the Mississippi River, 1850- 1861," an exhibition at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (2004) appeared in the Fall, 2004 issue of Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide, an on-line peer-reviewed electronic publication.Ê She coordinated, in remarkable fashion, the Global Studies Course (University of Minnesota) in Amsterdam in conjunction with the "Art Nouveau, Bing Empire " exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in January, 2005.

IN MEMORIAM:

Jill Eileen Miller, was associate professor of art history at Armstrong State Atlantic University when she suddenly passed away on March 25, 2005 at the age of 39. Miller was a beloved teacher whose work as head of the Honors Program at Armstrong State Atlantic University highlighted her dedication to teaching and bringing students to a higher awareness of art monuments through extensive global travel. After receiving her MA in art history at the University of Minnesota, Miller moved into the Ph.d. program, where her dissertation "Propaganda and Utopianism: The Family and Visual Culture in Early Third Republic France (1871- 1905)" elicited high praise. Miller contributed a major essay on "Les enfants des ivrognes: Concern for the Children of Montmartre," to Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture ( 2001).

CURRENT MINNESOTA STUDENTS:

Sarah Sikis currently working toward her graduate degrees in art history. She received the MA in 2006; she is now a Ph.d. student studying nineteenth and early twentieth century visual culture. Her research interests include the work and activities of German artists at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) and the life and work of the turn-of-the-century Minneapolis designer, John Scott Bradstreet, and the importance of his international ties. Her research on the French sculptor/designer Rupert Carabin is the basis of her Ph.d. research and evolving dissertation. Her review of The Missouri Historical Society's exhibition, "The 1904 World's Fair: Looking Back at Looking Forward," appeared in the Fall, 2004 issue of Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide on line. She recently curated the exhibition (with publication) "The Birth of Celebrity Culture in the City of Lights (1890-1910)" for the University of Minnesota Libraries. Ms. Sik's essay "Pirated Posters: International Print Piolitics and the Graphic Art of Maurice Biais," has been published in Paris 1900, ex. cat., Oklahoma City Museum of Art (2007).

Erica Warren is currently a Ph.d. student focusing on 19th and early 20th century European and Scandinavian art with an evolving specialization in the applied arts and nationalist theory of Norway during the fin-de-siecle or Symbolist period of the 1890s. After completing her MA at New York University, Ms. Warren has returned to her roots as she was an undergraduate Honors major in art history at the University of Minnesota. She has also published a review in 19thc-artworldwide.org.