Art and Ecology

Please join us on Friday, February 7 at 11 am Eastern Time for Art and Ecology, a Virtual Salon co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. This online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required:  https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudeyrqD8qHNZBxkiAiSGeyH6JEiDsaekJ#/registration

For this event, we are fortunate to host four speakers to discuss this important area of nineteenth-century studies: Sarah Gould, Simon Kelly, Michael Lobel, and Harmon Siegel. Each speaker will give a brief presentation on an object drawn from their research, followed by discussion and then a Q&A. 

Bios:

Sarah Gould is an Assistant Professor at Université Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne, where she focuses on the study of British art in both her research and teaching. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of the material and ecological meanings of art. She is currently working on two monographs, one on the Victorian painter John Everett Millais and the other on pollution in and of painting and visual culture in nineteenth-century Britain.

Simon Kelly is curator and head of department of modern and contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. He has curated numerous exhibitions there including, most recently, “Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape” (2023) and “Matisse and the Sea” (2024). He has published extensively on 19th and early-20th-century French art, particularly on Barbizon and Impressionist painting, including the book, Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is currently writing a book on the 19th-century international community of artists at Barbizon. Kelly received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he also taught art history.

Michael Lobel is Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. His publications include four books, the most recent beingVan Gogh and the End of Nature, published by Yale University Press in summer 2024. A regular contributor to exhibition catalogues and to such publications as Artforum, American Art, and Art Bulletin, his research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Dedalus Foundation, the NEH, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Harmon Siegel is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. His writing has appeared in Art Bulletin, American Art, and nonsite, and he writes as a critic for Artforum and Texte zur Kunst. His book, Painting With Monet, is now out from Princeton University Press.