Reconsidering Nineteenth-Century Sculpture

Please join us on Friday, 15 November at 11AM ET for the Virtual Salon, Reconsidering Nineteenth-Century Sculpture.

The Virtual Salon is a series of online events co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.

In this Salon, Andrew Eschelbacher will moderate a discussion among notable sculpture specialists, each presenting their own projects and views of the current state of nineteenth-century sculpture research.

Andrew Eschelbacher, Moderator, is Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. A specialist of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American sculpture, he is the editor of Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French (2023) as well as A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945): Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach (2017) and Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism (2016). 

Patrick Crowley is Associate Curator of European Art at the Cantor Arts Center of Stanford University where he oversees a collection that ranges from antiquity through 1900. He is currently developing an exhibition on nineteenth-century photo sculpture. Prior to Stanford, he was Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His work has been supported by the J. Paul Getty Trust, Research Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. He is the author of The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome.

Karen Lemmey is Lucy S. Rhame Curator of Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Along with Grace Yasumura and Tobias Wofford, she curated SAAM’s exhibition, The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture (Nov. 8, 2024–Sept. 14, 2025). In 2015, she curated SAAM’s Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave. She previously served as monuments coordinator for the City of New York’s Department of Parks & Recreation, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where she organized the 2006 exhibition, Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier.

Laure de Margerie is Director of the French Sculpture Census, the first comprehensive catalogue of French sculpture (1500–1960) in American public collections. She washead of the Sculpture Archives at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris (1978–2009), co-authored its collection catalogue, and was part of the Orsay’s first sculpture installation team. She has curated several exhibitions: La Danse de Carpeaux (Paris and Valenciennes, 1989), Drawings by Carpeaux (Paris, 1991–92), Carpeaux peintre (Paris, Valenciennes, and Amsterdam, 1999/2000), and Charles Cordier (1827–1905), Ethnographic Sculptor (Paris, Quebec City, and New York, Dahesh Museum, 2004–05).

This event is free and open to the public but registration is required at: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqcuqqrTgrG9POjIW0knlAvPhiEdg9jnZu