Diane Chalmers Johnson
Friday, March 15, 2002
11:00 - 12:30
Considering a Private Collection of 19th Century American Paintings
Location: 6 Glebe Street

Biography: Diane Johnson is a member of the College of Charleston's Art History Department's faculty. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Kansas, where her major field of study was Modern European and American art, and her minor field of study concentrated on the history of graphic art and Mannerism. As Department Chair, Dr. Johnson led the Department through its first decade in the newly formed School of the Arts. She has held the Addlestone Chair in American Art, Culture, and History. Her publications include American Art Nouveau, and articles such as "Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens, Albert Pinkham Ryder's Response to Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung" in American Art. She recently delivered a paper entitled "Identifying Jackson Pollock's ‘Drips, Splats, and Pours:' Is Connoisseurship Enough?" for the South Eastern College Arts Conference annual conference in Columbia, South Carolina, and she served as a review panelist for Art and Architectural History for the National Endowment for the Humanities' Fellowships for University Professors and Fellowships for College Professors and Independent Scholars.

Synopsis: This session will use a private collection of nineteenth century American paintings to study formal and historic elements of American landscape paintings and works in other genres. The particular characteristics of individual works will serve to address more broad considerations about the topic.

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