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