Love this detail from Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale's The Deceitfulness of Riches (1901). Included in the Tate exhibition, "Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920."

Enjoyed looking through some Beardsley illustrations in The Yellow Book today in UNT Special Collections 💛🖤

Beautiful 1947 catalog illustrations in the Neiman Marcus collection at UNT Special Collections

The booklets are finished for the exhibition I curated with UNT MFA student Carla Hughes! The exhibition opening for “Works Cited: Art as an Act of Citation” is tomorrow, Sept. 26 from 5-7 in the Cora Stafford Gallery at UNT College of Visual Arts & Design

“Works Cited: Art as an Act of Citation” is up at UNT College of Visual Arts & Design til Oct. 4! Curated with Carla Hughes, the exhibition features works by UNT MFA students that draw from scholarly texts, literature, and other bibliographic sources, reimagining the ideas they reference

Looked at so many fascinating materials in UNT Special Collections this week with my “Gender & Design” seminar students! I received a Special Collections Coursework Development Grant and have been enjoying incorporating the collection objects into my teaching!

Check out the great list of recommended exhibitions from the CAA’s CWA “Picks”!

Thank you Kimbell Art Museum for inviting me to speak about Frederic Leighton’s Portrait of May Sartoris in relation to Leighton’s career and artistic circle yesterday!

Pleased to announce the publication of NCAW’s Autumn 24 issue! I spent many hours editing the important digital art history project, "A Measure of Success: An African American Photograph Album from Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Connecticut" by Laura Coyle: 19thc-artworldwide.org

Seamus & his shadow 😺😺

The Fall 2024 issue of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is now live! Head over to 19thc-artworldwide.org for new articles by Laura Coyle with Mirasol Estrada and Allan McLeod, Luke Gartlan, Simon Kelly and Andrew Watson, Patricia Mainardi, and Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer.

Enjoyed teaching this wk’s seminar on Women & Machines! We looked at old telephone advertisements & discussed how the telephone has altered women’s roles & experiences, contributed to stereotyping, & been used as an uncanny extension or substitute for the female body.

Enjoyed “Spectral Shadows: Haunting Photographs from the Archives” at the UNT CoLab. So many great photos from UNT Special Collections 🖤👻

Enjoyed presenting on Arthur Hughes’s supernatural female figures in illustrations for the Scottish fantasy author and minister George MacDonald at the MacDonald Bicentenary Conference in St Andrews: george-macdonald.com/gms/2024Confer…

Glorious details from John Duncan’s The Riders of the Sidhe, 1911. In the McManus collection in Dundee

Donna Wilson’s creatures at V&A Dundee are so fun 😄

St Andrews, Scotland 💙

LIVE NOW! A huge welcome to Sarah Hardy from the De Morgan Foundation to talk about an incredible, and important, exhibition of Evelyn De Morgan's art which has opened recently at Wolverhampton Art Gallery . Why is it so incredible and important? Listen to find out 😊

💜 For #StudySaturday are three drawings by Edward Burne-Jones that all feature gold point drawn on purple prepared paper. Metalpoint drawing, using silver or gold, was very popular in the late 19th century, inspired by Renaissance techniques. …

Thanks so much to the Meadows Museum for inviting me to speak today about Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June! 🧡