Lee Frank Lectures

An endowment by the family and friends of Lee Frank, Class of 1921, sponsors a special event each year : a visiting lecturer or artist, a scholar or artist in residence, or a special exhibit.
Past Lee Frank Lectures:
- 2018–2019
Roberta Wue ’85, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
Amoy Chinqua/Chitqua: On Imagining the Chinese Artist in 18th Century London - 2016–2017
Deborah DeMott ’70, Professor of Law, Duke University
Disavowed Art - 2015—2016
Elizabeth Sutton, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Northern Iowa
Mapping Colonization and Decolonization in the 17th Century and Today - 2014—2015
Daniela Bleichmar, Associate Professor of Art History and History, USC
The Legible Image: Translating Pictorial Knowledge in Early Colonial Mexico - 2013—2014
Julia Bryan-Wilson ’95, University of California at Berkeley
Cecilia Vicuna & the Problem of Thread - 2012—2013
Susan Walker, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University
Renovating the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford - 2011—2012
Ken Tadashi Oshima, University of Washington
In-between Space: Constructing Modern Architecture between Japan and the World - 2010—2011
Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania
Reading The Mirror of Yoshiwara Beauties, Compared - 2008—2009
Keith Eggener, University of Missouri.
Settings for History and Oblivion in Modern Mexico, 1942—58 - 2007—2008
Rachel DeLue ’93, Assistant Professor of American Art, Princeton University.
Painting as Translation, or Seeing and Knowing in the Art of Arthur Dove - 2006—2007
Louise Allison Cort, Curator for Ceramics, Freer Gallely of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
A Japanese Potter's Study Trip to Edo: Ceramic Research and Development in the 17th Century - 2005—2006
Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Associate Professor of American and African American Art, University of Pennsylvania
Imagined Subjectivity: Portraits of the Past in Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum - 2004—2005
Joseph Rishel, Senior Curator of European Painting, PMA
Latin American Art 1492-1825: Making an Exhibition - 2003—2004
Ingrid Schaffner, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
The Dream of Venus Dreams On: Salvador Dali's Surrealist Funhouse and Contemporary Art - 2002—2003
Matthew Biro ’83, University of Michigan
Raoul Hausmann's Revolutionary Media: Dada Performance, Photomontage, and the Development of the Cyborg in Germany - 2001—2002
Susan Sidlauskas, University of Pennsylvania
Cezanne's Significant 'Other': The Portraits of Hortense - 2000—2001
Bonnie Yochelson ’74
The Story Behind Berenice Abbott's Changing New York - 1998—1999
Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, University of Delaware
Delacroix's Late Works: Between Aesthetics & Consumerism - 1997—1998
Angela Dalle Vacche, Emory University
Italy 1945: Cinema and Painting - 1996-1997
Maxwell Hearn, Curator of Chinese Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace, Museum, Taipei - 1995—1996
Joanna E. Ziegler, College of The Holy Cross
Dance, Film, & Gender: Retrieving Historical Women - 1994—1995
Christine Poggi, University of Pennsylvania
"Vito Acconci's Bad Dream of Domesticity" - 1993-1994
Wendy Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
Construing Mapplethorpe - 1992—1993
Richard Martin, Fashion Institute of Technology
Fine Arts and Finery Arts: An Inquiry and an Odyssey - 1991-1992
Robert Storr, Museum of Modern Art, NY
...that was then, this is now--modernism, post-modernism, and post po-mo... - 1990—1991
David Freedberg, Columbia University
Naming the Visible: Art and Science in the Circle of Galileo - 1989—1990
Alison Kettering, Carleton College
The Courtship Paintings of Gerhard ter Borch - 1988—1989
Linda Seidel, University of Chicago
Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait:' Business as Usual? - 1987—1988
Meredith Claussen, University of Washington
The Department Store: Development of the Building Type - 1986—1987
Shen Fu, Freer Gallery, Smisthsonian Institution
The Mongol Princess Sengge as a Chinese Art Collector - 1985—1986
Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr College
An Excellent Horse: Critical Understandings of the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius from Antiquity to Modern Times - 1984—1985
Elizabeth Johns, University of Maryland
Thomas Eakins and Nineteenth Century Heroic Ideals - 1983—1984
Kathleen Weil-Garris-Brandt, New York University
Raphael and Cinquecento Sculpture - 1982—1983
William Heckscher, Rare Books, Princeton University
Egogenesis: Fundamental Change as an Essential Ingredient in the Formation of Genius - 1981—1982
Joanna Gottfried Williams, University of California, Berkeley
The Non-Finito in Indian Sculpture - 1980—1981
Wanda M. Corn, Woodrow Wilson International Center (Smithsonian)
The Birth of a National Icon: Grand Wood's American Gothic - 1979—1980
Svetlana Alpers, University of California, Berkeley
Looking at Words: The Representation of Texts in Dutch Seventeenth Century Art