John Siewert

Department/Affiliation: Art and Art History
Phone: 330-263-2546
Office Address: 115 Ebert
Email: jsiewert@wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.A., University of Minnesota, 1983
• M.A., University of Michigan, 1985
• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994

Courses Taught

• ARTD 102: Introduction to Art History II (Renaissance-Present)
• ARTD 204: American Art
• ARTD 214: Nineteenth-Century Art
• ARTD 216: Gender in Twentieth-Century Art
• ARTD 222: Modern Art
• ARTD 224: Architecture II
• ARTD 230: African-American Art
• ARTD 360: Contemporary Art
• ARTD 401: Junior Independent Study Seminar

Fellowships and Awards

• Smithsonian Senior Fellow, Freer Gallery of Art/Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2012-13)
• Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, Scotland (1996-2006)
• Fellow, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (June 2003)
• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Fellowship for Scholarship in American Art (1990-91)
• Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1988-90)
• Fulbright Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, England (1987-88)
• Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan (1987-88)

Memberships

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Fulbright Alumni Association
• College Art Association
• Midwest Art History Association

Selected Publications

• “Interior Motives: Whistler’s Studio and Symbolist Mythmaking,” in Palaces of Art: Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, forthcoming 2013)
• “Locating an Aesthetics of Place in Whistler’s London Nocturnes,” in Turner Whistler Monet (London: Tate Publishing, 2005)
• “Rhetoric and Reputation in Whistler’s Nocturnes,” in After Whistler: The Artist’s Influence in American Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003)
• “Whistler’s Decorative Darkness,” in The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996)
• Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Works on Paper from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994)

Research Interests

My research and publications have focused on the work of the late nineteenth-century American artist James McNeill Whistler. I’m currently completing a book on his Nocturnes, paintings of sites in London and Venice, and their pivotal role in the formation of what I call a “cosmopolitan modernism.” Another current project extends my interests in artistic exchange between America and Britian with research into the intersections of postwar urbanism, gender, and domesticity in Anglo-American Pop Art of the 1950s and 1960s.