DORINDA EVANS

EDUCATION

Ph.D., COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART, University of London, England, l972. Dissertation under Michael Kitson and Sir Ellis Waterhouse on Mather Brown (1761-1831), A Critical Study (2 vols.).

M.A., UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, l967. Thesis under George B. Tatum on The Influence of British Architectural Pattern Books on Philadelphia Houses of the l760's.

B.A., WHEATON COLLEGE, Massachusetts, 1965. History of Art.
Winterthur Summer Institute, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Del., 1979.

EMPLOYMENT

EMORY UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Georgia, l978-present.
Professor, Art History Department, 2002-present.
Chair, Art History Department, 2003-05; 1992-94; 1985-86.
Associate Professor, Art History Department,1984-2002.
Assistant Professor, Art History Department, 1978-84.

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, Washington, D.C., l975-78.
Guest Curator, Curatorial Department.

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, Philadelphia, Pa., 1974-75.
Visiting Curator, Department of American Art.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Chicago, Illinois, l972-74.
Assistant Professor, Department of History of Architecture and Art.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, D.C., l967-69
Museum Curator, Department of American Art.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Genius of Gilbert Stuart, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1999 (216 pages).

Mather Brown, Early American Artist in England, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn., l982 (309 pages). Subsidized by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Barra Foundation.

Benjamin West and His American Students, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., l980 (203 pages, served as catalogue for traveling exh. at the National Portrait Gallery and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts).

Articles

"Gilbert Stuart and Manic Depression: Redefining His Artistic Range," American Art, 18: 1 (Spring, 2004), 10 - 31 (also online).

"Benjamin West" and "Charles Robert Leslie," essays for the New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

"Survival and Transformation: The Colonial Portrait in the Federal Era," in The Portrait in Eighteenth Century America, ed. E.G. Miles, University of Delaware Press, 1993, 123-137.

"Art and Deception: Ralph Blakelock and His Guardian," The American Art Journal, 19:1 (Spr., 1987), 39-50.

"Albert Pinkham Ryder's Use of Visual Sources," Winterthur Portfolio, 21:1 (Spr., 1986), 21-40.

"Gilbert Stuart: Two Recent Discoveries," The American Art Journal, 16:3 (Sum., 1984), 84-89.

"Raphaelle Peale's Venus Rising from the Sea: Support for a Change in Interpretation," The American Art Journal, 14:3 (Sum., 1982), 62-72.

"Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art" (co- authored), The Magazine Antiques, 110:1 (July, 1976), 126-35, 136-45.

"Twenty-Six Drawings Attributed to Mather Brown," The Burlington Magazine, 114: 833 (Aug., 1972), 534-4l.

Catalogues Co-Authored

Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, exh. cat., 1976 (665 pages). All painting and sculpture to 1830: 42 separated entries.

Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994, 26-27. Portrait by Stuart.

American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume I; A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1816, Hudson Hills Press, 1991 (340 pages), Portraits by artists born between 1741 and 1780: 23 separated entries.

American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, l970.

Reviews

"Ellwood C. Parry, The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition and Imagination," Art Bulletin, 73:3 (Sept., 1991), 495-96.

"Richard McLanathan, Gilbert Stuart," Journal of the Archives of American Art, 27:4 (Fall, 1988), 24-25.

"Wayne Craven, Colonial American Portraiture," The Burlington Magazine, 129:1017 (Dec., 1987), 812-13.

"Irma B. Jaffe, John Trumbull, Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution," The Burlington Magazine, 119:887 (Feb., l977), l26-27.

Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., Cecilia Beaux, exh. cat., in "Cecilia Beaux, Portraitist: Exhibition Review," American Art Review, 2:1 (Jan.-Feb., l975), 92-l02.

Symposia and Papers

"The Psychic States of William Rimmer," February 18, 2005, lecturer and co-chair in session: "On the Couch: Psychobiography and American Art," annual meeting of the College Art Association, Atlanta.

"Flash of Recognition: Stuart's Bipolarity," January 14, 2005; Symposium on Gilbert Stuart, Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York, NY.

"Auctoritas and the Athenaeum Washington," February 26, 2000, in session "Re-Viewing Washington Crossing the Delaware and Other Icons of National Identity," annual meeting of the College Art Association, New York, NY.

"From Copley to Cole: The Colonial and Federal Periods," Oct. 6, 1999, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.

"Manic-Depression and Gilbert Stuart's Bowdoin Pictures," Oct. 26, 1998, Henry Luce Foundation Lecture Series, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME.

"The Role of Imagination in the Federal Portrait," March 10, 1992, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.

"The Sublime in Early American Portraiture," February 21, 1991, in session "The Romantic Sublime," annual meeting of the College Art Association, Washington, DC.

"Ryder's Process of Invention," October 13, 1990, in symposium "Albert Pinkham Ryder: Determining the Vision," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn.

"Gilbert Stuart's George Washington: Where the X-Radiographs Lead Us," May 3, 1989, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI.

"Survival and Transformation: The Colonial Portrait in the Federal Era," October 17, 1987, in symposium "The Portrait in Eighteenth-Century America," National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.

"Within 'the Sacred Fire' : Albert Pinkham Ryder's Inspiration," April 9, 1985, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.

Chairman, American session: open topic, October 19, 1984, annual meeting of the Southeastern College Art Conference, Richmond, VA.

" 'Imitation is Not Inspiration:' Albert Pinkham Ryder's Use of Pictorial Paradigms," March 19, 1984, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.

"Benjamin West and His American Students," March 18, 1981, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

Chairman, American session: "Patronage in America: The Artist and His Public," February 1, 1980, annual meeting of the College Art Association, New Orleans, LA.

AWARDS

Faculty Research Awards, Emory University: spring term 2002; fall term 1997; spring term (supplement), 1987; and summers of 1984, 1983, 1982, 1980, and 1979.

Faculty Course Development Award (shared), Emory University, 2000.

Joshua C. Taylor Research Fellowship, and Smithsonian Visitor's Grant, National Museum of American Art, Washington, June - August, 1991.

Smithsonian Senior Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1986-87.

ACLS Grant-In-Aid, American Council of Learned Societies, New York, summer, 1985.

Book subventions from the Barra Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1981.

Winterthur Summer Institute Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Del., summer, 1979.

Kress Foundation Fellowship, from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1971-72.

The Paul Hamlyn Studentship, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, England, 1970-71.

Central Research Fund Grant, University of London, England, l970.