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DEPARTMENT OF
ART HISTORY AND ART

 

Anne Helmreich

 

EDUCATION

Northwestern University, Ph.D., Art History, 1994.

Dissertation : “Contested Grounds: Garden Painting and the Invention of a National Identity in England , 1880-1914”; Major Field : 19th-century European Art and Architecture; Subfield : 19th-century British Art and Architecture; Minor Field : Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art

University of Pittsburgh , M.A., Art History, 1989

Thesis : “British Artists and the Great War: The Studio and Blast , 1914-15” Dickinson College , B.A., cum laude , 1985

Major : History; Minor : Art History

Institute of European Studies, Vienna , 1983-1984

Major : History; Minor : Art History

 

CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor, Dept. of Art History, Case Western Reserve University , 2004- present.

Teaching Areas: Western European art (1750-1920), history of photography, gender studies, and museum studies.

 

HONORS & AWARDS

Historians of British Art Prize for Best Book on Post-1800 topic, 2004

Nominee, College of Fine Arts , Deans' Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002

Mortar Board Preferred Professor, 2000

Art and Art History Department Nominee, Dean's Teaching Award, 2000

Walter L. Arnstein Award for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies, 1992

 

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

Getty Research Institute Library Grant, 2004

Harry Ransom Center Fellowship, 2003-04

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2003

Yale Center for British Art, Visiting Fellow, 2002

Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, Travel Grant, 2001

TCU Instructional Development Grant, 2001

TCU Research and Creative Activities Research Grant, 2000

TCU Instructional Development Grant, 2000

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, Dr. and Mrs. James

C. Caillouette Fellow, 1999

American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1998

TCU Research and Creative Activities Research Grant, 1998

Dumbarton Oaks, Studies in Landscape Architecture, Summer Fellow, 1998

Graham Foundation, (publication subvention), 1997

Yale Center for British Art, Visiting Fellow, 1995

Dumbarton Oaks, Studies in Landscape Architecture, Junior Fellow, 1992

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, Mayers Foundation Fellow, 1991

Northwestern University, Dissertation Year Grant, 1991

UCLA Art Council Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 1991

Northwestern University, Mellon Preceptor, 1989-1990

TEACHING AND LECTURING EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Dept. of Art and Art History, Texas Christian University , 1996-2003

Faculty in Residence, TCU London Centre, Spring 2002

Teaching areas: Western European art (1750-1945), history of photography, gender studies, and museum studies.

Graduate Lecturing Fellow, National Gallery of Art, 1992-1993.

Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, 1990-1991.

Teaching Assistant, University of Pittsburgh, 1987-1988.

MUSEUM EXPERIENCE

Guest Curator, Amon Carter Museum , 1998, Co-curated exhibition, Masterworks in Photography: Picturing Modern Life ( 5 September 1998- 3 January 1999 ) (Co-curator, Dr. John Rohrbach)

Research Assistant, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 1993- 1996

UCLA Art Council Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, 1991

Intern, Department of Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago , 1990-1991

Assistant Director, University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery , 1988-1989

Temporary Education Assistant, Huntsville Museum of Art, Summer 1988 and 1989

Collections Manager and Weekend Manager, Pittsburgh Children's Museum, 1987-1989

 

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

Books

The English Garden and National Identity, The Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870-1914 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Book Chapters

“The Nation and the Garden: England at the World's Fairs at the Turn of the Century,” Art, Culture and National Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Europe , ed. Sharon Hirsh and Michelle Facos. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

“Domesticating Britannia: Representations of the Nation in Punch, 1870-1880,” Art, Nation, and Gender: Ethnic Landscapes, Myths, and Mother-Figures , ed. Tricia Cusack and Síghle Breathnach-Lynch. Aldershot , Hampshire and Burlington , VT : Ashgate Press, 2003.

“Poetry and Nature: John Everett Millais's Pure Landscapes,” in John Everett Millais, Beyond the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , ed. Debra Mancoff. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2001.

“The Marketing of Helen Allingham,” in Gendering the Landscape , ed. Anna Robins and Steven Adams . Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000.

“Re-presenting Nature: Ideology, Art, and Science in William Robinson's ‘ Wild Garden '” in Nature and Ideology: Natural Gardens in the 20th Century , ed. Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. Washington , D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1997.

“Re-forming London : George Cruikshank and the Victorian Age” in Victorian Urban Settings , ed. D. J. Trela and Debra Mancoff. New York : Garland Press, 1996.

Articles

“John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose , and the Condition of Modernism in England , 1887,” Victorian Studies 45 (Spring 2003): 433-455.

Therese O'Malley, Anne Helmreich, and Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, “Keywords in American Landscape Design.” Plants and People: Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folk Life 20 (June 1995): 179-188.

“George Cruikshank as Book Illustrator, a Victorian Gentleman.” The Graphic Arts Council Newsletter (Fall 1992): 11-13.

Exhibition Catalogues

“Loli Kantor, Heaven on a Biscuit: an Extended Portrait of the Hip Pocket Theatre,” Arlington , TX : Arlington Museum of Art, 2004.

“Chris Powell: Animalia,” Irving , TX : Haggerty Gallery University of Dallas , 2001.

“Jim Woodson: It's About Time,” Fort Worth , TX : J. M. Moudy Exhibition Hall, 2000.

The Victorians: Painting in the Reign of Queen Victoria , 1837-1901 , by Malcolm Warner, with contributions by Anne Helmreich and Charles Brock. New York : Abrams, 1996.

“Life in London : Prints and Illustrations from the Richard Vogler George Cruikshank Collection.” Los Angeles : The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, 1992.

“Catalogue of the Exhibition” in Wonders Never Ceasing! Viewmaking and the Rise of British Tourism . Chicago : Chicago Public Library in association with the Department of Prints and Drawings of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Reviews

“Symposium at Yale,” The British Art Journal 4 (Spring 2003): 115-116.

Review of Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites: the Anglo-American Enchantment , edited by Margaretta Frederick Watson Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies vol. 9 (Spring 2000): 110-112.

Review of Re-Framing the Pre-Raphaelites , edited by Ellen Harding, The Journal of Pre- Raphealite Studies 8 (Spring 1999): 109-111.

Review of Lutyens and the Edwardians by Jane Brown and Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood by Judith Tankard and Martin Wood, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 57 (September 1998): 342-345.

Review of The Country House Garden , from the Archives of Country Life, 1879-1949 by Brent Elliott, The Journal of Garden History 18 (Spring 1998): 67-68.

Encyclopedia articles

“Henry G. Moon,” The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists , ed. Bernard Lightman. New York and London : Continuum, 2004.

 

FORTHCOMING

Keywords in American Landscape Architecture , by Therese O'Malley, Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, and Anne Helmreich. New Haven : Yale University Press.

“Alfred Parsons,” New Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford : Oxford University Press.

“John Everett Millais,” “Edward Lear,” Gardens and Garden Design,” The Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era , Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast, editors; James Eli Adams, editor in chief. 4 vols. Danbury , CT : Grolier Academic Press.

 

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

“The Art Dealer and Taste: the Case of David Croal Thomson and the Goupil Gallery, 1885-1897,” Visual Culture and Taste in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Northumbria University , July 2004.

“The Cultural Dialectics of British Landscapists in France , c. 1900-1914,” for “Alternative Geographies of Modernity,” College Art Association annual conference, February 2003.

“Domesticating Britannia: Representations of the Nation in Punch, 1870-1880,” for “Body and

Soul,” Association of Art Historians, annual conference, April 2000.

“Nation, Watercolor, and Women: Britain and France , c. 1880-1914,” for “Visual Exchange across the Channel,” Southeastern College Art Conference, October 1999.

“Why Should England be a Garden,” for “Social Uses of Nature and Identity Construction,” Dumbarton Oaks Studies in Landscape Architecture Roundtable, March 1999.

“Our England is a Garden: National Identity and the Visual Culture of Gardens in England , 1870-1914,” for “Landscape, Gardens, Nature, and Identity,” Association of Art Historians, annual conference, Identities, April 1998.

“Defining the Nation by Ordering the Landscape: The Formal Garden in Late Nineteenth-Century England ,” for “Formalism in the Garden,” Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens & The Scripps College Humanities Institute, April 1997.

“Our England is a Garden: National Identity and the Visual Culture of Gardens,” for “Nature, Landscape and Ideas of the Environment in Victorian Britain,” Royal College of Art , Victoria & Albert, and University of Birmingham Seminar in Victorian Studies, March 1997.

“John Everett Millais's Late Landscapes,” for “John Millais in Context,” Millais Centenary Conference, Tate Gallery, October 1996.

“Reconciling Art and Nature: George Washington and 18th-Century Aesthetics,” Mount Vernon , May 1995.

“Haddon Hall and Penshurst Place as Case Studies in the Study of Representations of the Designed Landscape,” for “Representation and Landscape,” Society of Architectural Historians, annual meeting, April 1995.

“‘Our England is a Garden': Gardens and the Invention of a National Identity in England , 1880-1914,” for “British Art and National Identity,” College Art Association, annual meeting, January 1995.

“Art and Nature: The Development of the Natural Garden in Late Nineteenth-Century England ,” for “Nature & Ideology: Natural Garden Design in the 20th Century,” Studies in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks, May 1994.

“Garden Art: Gertrude Jekyll's Photographs,” for “The History of Landscape Architecture and the History of Photography,” College Art Association annual meeting, February 1994.

“Reforming London : Caricatures and Book Illustrations by George Cruikshank,” for “Victorian Urban Settings,” Midwest Victorian Studies Association, April 1993.

CHAIRED PANELS

“Desire and Experience: Circuits of Artistic Consumption,” The Historians of British Art sponsored session, North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, 18 October 2003 .

“ ‘Cool Britannia': New Directions in British Art History,” The Historians of British Art sponsored session, College Art Association Conference, 1 March 2001 .

 

PUBLIC LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

“The English Garden and National Identity, 1870-1914,” Tate Britain , June 2004.

“J. M. W. Turner's Legacy: The Next Generations,” Public Lecture, Kimbell Art Museum , May 2004.

“The English Garden and National Identity, 1870-1914,” Public Lecture, The Cleveland Botanic Garden, 10 December 2003; The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 25 September 2003.

History of Photography (7 public lectures), Amon Carter Museum , Spring 2003.

European Painting, c. 1780-1880, Docent Training, Dallas Museum of Art, 10 February 2004 .

“Monet in France and Italy ,” Gallery Lecture, Dallas Museum of Art , 26 September 2002 .

European Painting, 1780-1900 (3 lectures), Survey of Art Course, Dallas Museum of Art, April 2001.

“The English Garden and the Polite Landscape,” Public Lecture, Kimbell Art Museum , April 2001.

“Sexuality, Gender and the Avant-Garde,” Public Lecture, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , February 2001.

European Painting, c. 1780-1880, Docent Training, Kimbell Art Museum , February 2000.

NeoClassicism and Romanticism, Docent Training, Dallas Museum of Art , November 1999.

French and British Painting, 1780-1880 (2 lectures), Survey of Art Course, Dallas Museum of Art, April 1999.

History of Photography (14 public lectures), Amon Carter Museum , Fall 1998.

History of Photography, Amon Carter Museum , Docent Training, Fall 1998.

British and American Landscape Painting, Amon Carter Museum , Docent Training, Spring 1998.

“Fuseli and British Romanticism,” Gallery Lecture, Dallas Museum of Art , March 1998.

“The Lure of Light: Tourism in Monet's Mediterranean ,” Public Lecture, Kimbell Art Museum , July 1997.

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Association of Art Historians (U. K.)

Historians of British Art (Board)

Association of Historians of 19thC Art

Midwest Victorian Studies Association

College Art Association

Midwest Art History Organization