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Elizabeth W. Hutchinson
Assistant Professor of Art History
Elizabeth W. Hutchinson, Assistant Professor of Art History, joined the Barnard faculty in January 2001. In addition to her teaching duties for the Department of Art History, she is affiliated with Barnard's American Studies Program.
Professor Hutchinson's research centers on the role played by visual and material culture in the interactions between the diverse cultural groups of the American west, using the tools of close visual analysis, feminist and postcolonial theory, and cultural history to interpret the contributions of art objects to current and historical cultural debates. She has written extensively on how Native Americans used "modern" art to negotiate a place for themselves within modern industrial culture at the turn of the twentieth century. More recently, she has turned her attention to the role of photography in documenting and defining the topographical and cultural landscape of the West in the nineteenth century. Professor Hutchinson's research and scholarship have received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate.
Professor Hutchinson's courses examine American visual culture from the colonial period through the early twentieth century. She has developed specialized classes on Native American art, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Hudson River school, all of which make use of the rich resources of New York City. Her teaching and mentoring at Barnard have been recognized with the Gladys Brooks Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award and the Star Teaching Award from Barnard's Office of Disability Services.
Selected Publications
The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism and Transculturation in Native American Art, 1890-1915 (Duke University Press, 2009).
"Native American Collections at Laurelton Hall," Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall, exhibition catalog, Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2006): 177–191.
"Image Peddling," New-York Journal of American History (Summer 2006): 64-74.
"Native American Art and Modern Indian Identity," Seeing High and Low: Representing Cultural Conflict in American Visual Culture, Patricia Johnston, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, April 2006): 194–209.
"They Might Be Giants: Galen Clark, Carleton Watkins and the Big Tree," October Vol. 109 (Summer 2004): 47–63.
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EDUCATION:
BA, Yale University
PhD, Stanford University
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SPECIALIZATION:
North American art to 1914
Native American Art History
History of Photography
Postcolonial theory