Catherine Lawrence
Title:
Adjunct Professor
Degrees:
MA Art History, Hunter College, CUNY
MA International Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
BA Speech and Theatre, UNC at Appalachian State
Contact:
Manhattan:
address:
Fine Arts Department
New Technology Building
16 W 61st Street
Room 911
Fax: 212.261.1719
e-mail:
Personal Links:
curriculum vitae
website (under development)
Areas of Scholarly and Artistic Interest:
AMERICAN ART (Colonial to WWII)
Career Summary:
Catherine Lawrence is a New York Art Historian and Lecturer with MA degrees in Art History from Hunter College CUNY, and in International Education from Columbia University, Teacher’s College. She has taught Art History and English at Columbia University, Cornell University, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center and most recently at the NYIT. She has also developed and taught special courses for the American Language Program at Columbia University, which utilize her artistic experience in music and theatre as well as art history. These offerings include: “The History of American Musical Theatre” and “American Art, Culture and Ideas,” a humanities class based on the visual arts and designed as an introduction to American history and culture.
Catherine worked as a Curatorial Research Assistant in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum for the 2003 exhibition, “Hudson River School Visions, the Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford.” She has given numerous lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, permanent collections and special exhibitions, and has led tours at many other New York museums and galleries. In 2007 Catherine founded InsideArtnyc.com, which offers art education lectures and tours to nonprofit organizations, cultural clubs and business professionals in the New York area.Roster of Lectures:
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART:
J.M.W. Turner, Retrospective, Summer 2008
Gustave Courbet, Spring 2008
19th Century- Early Modern, (Gallery Reinstallation) Winter, 2008
The Age of Rembrandt, Fall 2007
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Laurelton Hall, Spring 2007
Americans in Paris, Fall 2006
Gilbert Stuart, Fall 2005
Childe Hassam, American Impressionism, Summer 2004
Great American Art: The American Wing, 2003-2007
Likeness of Not: The Makings of a Portrait, 2005-2006
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings, Fall 2008
Life’s Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists’ Brush with Leisure, Fall 2007
NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM:
The Unknown Ralph Albert Blakelock, Fall 2008
The Abstract Impulse, Fall 2007
THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Winter 2008
SPECIAL RESEARCH TOPICS:
American Landscape: The Iconography of Nature
Georgia O’Keeffe and American Spirituality
Selected Publications:
Georgia O’Keeffe and American Spirituality. Hunter College CUNY, Art History Department, MA Thesis, 2006
Artists With Dual Careers. Columbia University, Teachers College, Dept. of International Education, Research Project and Masters’ Thesis, 1994
An Actor Speaks. Research Center for Arts and Culture, Joan Jeffri-Editor,
Dept. of Arts Administration and Columbia Oral History Collection,
(Researcher-Interviewer-Project Coordinator), Greenwood Press, 1993.
Recommended web sites:
Art History Database by William Ganis
http://athena.wells.edu:6080/special/user-wganis/
ArtStor Visual Database and Resource
http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml
MET Museum Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
National Endowment for the Arts: Picturing America
http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/
Public Broadcasting Service - Art:21 and Power of Art
http://www.pbs.org/art21/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/powerofart/
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
http://www.aaa.si.edu/