Fall 2017 (3.2)

Editor's Welcome: Issue 3.2

Features

A painting by Wayne Thiebaud titled *Lovell Estate*, 1969, depicts houses and trees perched precariously on a steep, rounded cliff overlooking a dark chasm.

City, River, Mountain: Wayne Thiebaud’s California

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Painting of a forest scene with several plumes of black smoke

Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Cold Butter: Discourses of Hygiene and Health in the Panama Canal Zone in the Early Twentieth Century

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Colorful painting featuring a department store

Florine Stettheimer, the Department Store, and the Spaces of Display, New York 1916–1926

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In the Round

Research Notes

Entrance hall to Monticello showing 3 arched floor-length windows

“Kicked About”: Native Culture at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Kristine K. Ronan

Bully Pulpit

A gilded eagle sculpture with spread wings perches on a golden sphere, suspended by a chain.
M. Elizabeth Boone, Lauren Lessing

What Is the Role of Patriotism in the Study of American Art?

A black and white photograph of Algerian nationalist prisoners, one screaming with his mouth wide open.
David M. Lubin

Classroom Patriotism

The word 'PANORAMA' in bold white capital letters on a black background, with 'PANO' on the first line and 'RAMA' on the second.
Angela Miller

Angela Miller

A detail from the painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" showing George Washington and his troops in a boat, with the year "1976" in the top left corner.
Patricia Junker

On Patriotism

The word 'PANORAMA' in bold white capital letters on a black background, with 'PANO' on the first line and 'RAMA' on the second.
Lauren Lessing

Lauren Lessing

The word 'PANORAMA' in bold white capital letters on a black background, with 'PANO' on the first line and 'RAMA' on the second.
Alan Wallach

Alan Wallach

A satirical map of the Midwest, titled "THE MIDWEST: (a map made by people that aren't from the midwest)", with states humorously mislabeled based on stereotypes and misconceptions.
Sally Webster

Sally Webster

Book Reviews

Kara Walker's monumental white sugar sculpture, "A Subtlety," depicting a mammy-sphinx figure in an industrial factory setting.

Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race

Vivien Green Fryd
Header image showing several photographs of black people wearing 18th or 19th century clothing

Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance

Rachel Stephens
Book cover showing 3 black top hats

The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era

Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire
An antique engraved map of Bermuda, labeled "The Summer Ils," surrounded by detailed illustrations of its forts, towns, and other key structures.

Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600–1850

Whitney Martinko
Book cover showing a man adding liquids into a beaker

The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology

Ellen Handy

Exhibition Reviews

A woman sitting in front of a painting

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Levi Prombaum
art installation of several doors with painted works on them

The Wall of Respect: Vestiges, Shards and the Legacy of Black Power and Eugene Eda’s Doors for Malcolm X College

Marissa H. Baker
header image showing a black woman jumping with her arms in the air

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85

Kim Bobier
Image of a red lobster on a black background

Marsden Hartley’s Maine

Margarita Karasoulas