11–13, 2017

TA O S , N E W M E X I C O • O C TO B E R
XXIX
2017 Southwest Art History Conference
Mark your calendars:
SWAHC XXX: 10-12 October 2018
SWAHC XXXI: 9-11 October 2019
Front Cover:
Joseph Henry Sharp, Indians in Taos Studio, c. 1925, oil on canvas, 20 x 27 13/16"
Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Carl S. Dentzel Family Collection (1985.136)
PO Box 1891
Santa Fe, NM 87504
SOUTHWEST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE XXIX
OCTOBER 11–13, 2017 • TAOS, NEW MEXICO
Wednesday, October 11
6:00 PM • Annual Anti-Social
Mabel Dodge Luhan House
Thursday, October 12
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
The Classics
MODERATOR: Amy Scott, Chief Curator and
Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator of
Visual Arts, Autry National Center,
Los Angeles, CA
“From the Rockies to Rothko: Albert Bierstadt’s
Rediscovery in the Age of Abstraction,” Laura
F. Fry, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
“Magical & Real: The Painting of Henriette
Wyeth,” Kirsten M. Jensen, Michener Art
Museum, Doylestown, PA
“Catharsis and Spectacle in Will Shuster’s
Zozobra,” Mark White, Fred Jones Jr. Museum
of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
“The 1924 Sands Family Trip to Taos,
New Mexico,” Tricia Loscher, Western Spirit:
Scottsdale's Museum of the West,
Scottsdale, AZ
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
2:30 PM • SESSION II
Pop! Goes the Southwest!
MODERATOR: Marie Watkins, Emerita,
Furman University, Greenville, SC
“Picture of Life: Technique, Symbolism, and
Artistic Dialogue in Two Paintings by Pablita
Velarde and Helen Hardin,” Jenna Kloeppel,
Santa Fe Art Auction, Santa Fe, NM
“Indian Pop and the Southwest Art Market,”
Kristine K. Ronan, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Research Center, Santa Fe, NM
“John Sloan and the Paradoxes of
Preservation: Protecting Traditional Pueblo
Culture, Promoting Modern Pueblo Art,”
Elizabeth S. Hawley, Graduate Center, City
University of New York, New York, NY
“Medallic Circuitry: T.C. Cannon’s “Taos, Farm Security Administration
Washington Landscape with Peace Medal Photography, and the Missing Image of the
Indian,” Natalia Gabrielsen, University of Native American,” James Swensen, Brigham
Arizona, Tucson, AZ Young University, Provo, UT
Reception: “Malvina Hoffman’s ‘The Races of Mankind,’
5:30 to 6:30 PM, Joseph Henry Sharp Studio, and the Early 20th Century Fascination with
146 Kit Carson Road (it is at the end of Navajo Sandpainting,” Jennifer McLerran,
Morada Lane, just up from the Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Mabel Dodge Luhan House), at the
Couse-Sharp Historic Site.
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
2:30 PM • SESSION IV
Friday, October 13 Provenance and Patronage
9:30 AM • SESSION III MODERATOR: Betsy Fahlman, Arizona State
Lost and Found University, Tempe, AZ
MODERATOR: Louise Siddons, Oklahoma “Return of The Wounded Pawnee,” Carol
State University, Stillwater, OK Clark, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
“Picking Wild Berries: The Art and Life of “Maynard Dixon, ‘Little Heap,’ and the Big
Taos Pueblo Artist Eva Mirabal,” Lauran Picture: ‘Truth and Beauty’ in West Coast
Ross, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Billboard Advertising, 1917–1921,” Hadley
Elizabeth Jerman, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of
“Shifting Lanes: Automobiles Performing Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
the Trickster in Modern and Contemporary
Work by Artists from Historic Native “Frank Paul Sauerwein: The Seventh
American Horse Cultures,” Aaron Chance Founder?,” Michael R. Grauer, Panhandle-
Moses, Oklahoma State University, Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, TX
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Sessions take place at The Mabel Dodge Luhan House
240 Morada Lane, Taos, NM • 1-800-846-2235 or 575-751-9686
18 guest rooms available ($98-$245) Reserve a room by 1 October 2017. When reserving
mention the SWAHC conference (there is no
special conference rate, but they do block out rooms for us).
For further information (including other places to stay in Taos)
SWAHC now
or to receive the program in a PDF format, please contact Betsy
has a website
Fahlman at Arizona State University via e-mail (conference registrations
(fahlman@asu.edu) or phone 480-965-2610). may be made online by
credit card): https://www.
southwestarthistory.org
To register, make checks out to “SWAHC” and mail to:
Southwest Art History Conference, Box 1891, Santa Fe, NM 87504
Advance conference registration: $70 • At-the-door registration: $75 • One day rate: $35
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