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email: Ann_Murray@wheatonma.edu
I specialize in 19th and 20th-century art history and, in addition to teaching, am Director of Beard & Weil Galleries and curator of the permanent art collection. After majoring in art history at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, I worked for a year as Assistant to the Curator of Education at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Then I went on to Brown University, where I wrote a Master's thesis on the cubist painter, Henri LeFauconnier with Daniel Robbins and a doctoral dissertation on Vincent van Gogh with Kermit S. Champa. Since then I have published in Art History, The Art Bulletin, Arts Magazine, The Woman's Art Journal, The American Art Journal, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, The Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and contributed entries on paintings by artists of the Hague School to The Taft Museum, Its History and Collections, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1995. I have also written and edited numerous catalogues for the exhibitions curated for Beard & Weil Galleries. Most recently I have been involved in an exciting collaborative project with Professor Ann Sears (Music Department) and Zephorine Stickney (Archivist and Curator of Special Collections). We have been researching the life and work of Ruth Lynda Deyo (1884-1960), a pianist, composer and artist whose personal effects are on repository in the Gebbie Archives at Wheaton College. What do I do in my "spare" time?
Work in my garden and go to fleamarkets! What do I look for? Fiesta ware! What's my family like? My husband teaches geology at the University of Rhode Island, our daughter is a graduate student in geophysics at Stanford, and our two dogs, Samantha and Mooselauke (both mixed labs), take care of the house.
Education:
1974 Brown University, Ph.D. in Art History
1970 Brown University, M.A. in Art History
1962-66 Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, B.A. in Art History, minor
in English Literature, Cum Laude.
Professional Experience:
Teaching:
1987-present Professor of Art, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1981-87 Associate Professor of Art, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1974-81 Assistant Professor of Art, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1973 Instructor in Art History, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode
Island, spring semester.
1972-73 Teaching Assistant, Brown University, Providence, RI
1971-72 Instructor in Art History (part-time), Atlanta School of Art, Atlanta,
Georgia.
1971-72 Lecturer in Art History, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Museum:
1974-present Director, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College.
1966-67 Assistant to the Curator of Education, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School
of Design; Assistant to the Registrar (summers).
Publications:
I. Articles, Chapters, and Essays
2000
Candace Jans: Paintings, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, and Fischach
Gallery, New York. "Beyond Illusionism: Some Further Thoughts on the Paintings
of Candace Jans", in Candace Jans: Paintings Beard & Weil Galleries,
Wheaton College.
1999
"Remnants: Ancient Forests and City Trees," introduction to Remnants:
Ancient Forests and City Trees, (catalogue for a touring exhibition of drawings
and collages by Prilla Smith Brackett), University of Maine, Farmington; Society
for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests; Philip and Muriel Berman Museum
of Art, Ursinus College; Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College; Housatonic
Community - Technical College, c. 1999 Prilla Smith Brackett
"The Spiritual Made Visible: Ruth Lynda Deyo's Abstract Pastel Drawings,"
in An American Composer Looks at Egypt: Ruth Lynda Deyo and the Diadem of Stars,"
exh. cat. with essays by Ann Sears (Music Department), Zephorine Stickney (College
Archivist and Curator of Special Collections), Kelly Dann (Class of 2000) and
Ann H. Murray, pp. 13-21
1995
The Taft Museum: Its History and Collections. New York: Hudson Hills Press,
1995 Volume I: European and American Paintings, pp. 271-285. (Hague School Paintings)
"Squidge Davis: Dialogue with Ancient Memories," Woman's Art Journal,
16, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1995), pp. 33-39.
1991
"Pits and Pitfalls: Harriet Feigenbaum's Reclamation Art Projects in the
Strip Mined Lackawanna Valley," Woman's Art Journal, 12, no. 1 (Spring/Summer,
1991), pp. 29-35.
1990
"Reclaiming the Earth with Art," Wheaton Quarterly (Spring 1990),
pp. 5-8.
1989
"Slatted and Glued: The Latest Permutations in Nancy Helfant's Ever-changing
Female Nudes," commentary on Nancy Helfant's exhibition, Erector Square
Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
1981
"Le Fauconnier's 'Das Kunstwerk': An Early Statement of Cubist Theory and
itsUnderstanding in Germany," Arts Magazine (December), pp. 125-133.
"Eleanor Norcross: Artist, Collector and Social Reformer, "Woman's
Art Journal (Fall 1981/Winter 1982), pp. 14-18.
1980
"'Strange and Subtle Perspective...': Van Gogh, the Hague School and the
Dutch Landscape Tradition," Art History, III, no. 4 (December), pp. 410-424.
1979
Review of Phillippe Jullian, The Symbolists, in Art Bulletin (June), pp. 332-335.
"Sticks and Stones: Recent Sculpture by Robert Scofield and David Phillips,"Anyart
Journal (Summer), pp. 14-17, 40-43.
1978
"Gari Melchers' Audrey the Shepherd Lass": A Rediscovered Painting
in the Wheaton College Collection," American Art Journal (May), pp. 110-111.
"Van Gogh's Religious Background and its Relation to his Views on Nature
and Art," Journal of the American Academy of Religion (March), pp. 67-96.
1977
"Three Paintings from the Wheaton College Collection," Beard &
Weil Galleries Notes, I, no. 1 (Fall), pp. 2-8.
1976
"Computer Graphics in Historical Perspective," Artist and Computer,
ed. Ruth Leavitt (New York: Harmony Books), introductory essay, pp. 1-3.
1972
"Henri Le Fauconnier's 'Village en montagne'," Bulletin of the Rhode
Island School of Design, Museum Notes (December), pp. 21-38. An abbreviated
version of this essay appears in the more recently published catalogue of the
collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (1992).
II. Published Abstracts:
2000
Murray, Ann, Ann Sears, and Zephorine Stickney, "'Waves of Colorful Ether
in Forms Moving': Ruth Lynda Deyo and her Grand Opera," presented by Ann
Murray in the session The Harmony of the Spheres: A Model for Interdisciplinarity
College Art Association, February 2000
1990
"Art in Geologic Context," presented at the annual meeting of the
Geological Society of America, Dallas, Texas, October 30, 1991.
1986
"Feminist Art Criticism and Contemporary Art," in How is Art History?:
A Conference on a Variety of Problems in the History of Art, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst (April).
1984
"The Portrait Exchange between van Gogh and Gauguin in 1888," College
Art Association, Toronto (February).
1981
"Eleanor Norcross: Artist, Collector and Social Reformer," presented
at 1980 Women in the Arts 1880-1980, University of Pittsburgh (March, 1980),
and symposium of Rhode Island Art Historians, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School
of Design (March 1981).
III. Exhibition Catalogues and Brochures:
2000
Candace Jans: Paintings, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, and Fischach
Gallery, New York.
1999
An American Composer Looks at Egypt: Ruth Lynda Deyo and The Diadem of Stars,
Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College (co-authored with Ann Sears (Music
Department), Zephorine Stickney (CollegeArchivist and Curator of Special Collections),
and Kelly Dann (Class of 2000); wrote "The Spiritual Made Visible: Ruth
Lynda Deyo['s Abstract Pastel Drawings."
1997
The Spirit of the Dead: Topographic Wall Sculpture and Other Works by Harriet
Feigenbaum, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College (essay co-authored with
Jocelyn Leary, class of 1999, with a Gebbie Faculty/Student Collaboration Award).
1997
Re: Turnings: Recent Prints by Claudia R. Fieo, Beard & Weil Galleries,
Wheaton College 1997 Generations: An Exhibition in Honor of Vaino Kola and his
Students, 1969-1993, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College.
1995
Harriet Pappas and Ken Horii: Rattles, Eye Traps and Other Votive Offerings,
Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College.
1994
Vaughn Grylls: White Man's Tales, Beard & Weil Galleries, Norton, MA and
Natal Society of Arts, Durban, South Africa (catalogue produced by Vaughn Grylls,
the University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, England, with text by Ann H.
Murray).
1992
Candace Jans: Paintings from New England Collections 1981-1991, Beard &
Weil Galleries, Wheaton College.
1988
Dime Store Deco, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College.
1983
Judith Nulty" Recent Landscapes, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College.
1981
Hugh Townley, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College.
1980
Eleanor Norcross, Amy Cross, Edith Loring Getchell, Beard & Weil Galleries,
Wheaton College (with co-authored essay by Ann H. Murray and Sandra Davidson).
Collage, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College.
1979
Allusive Illusions, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College.
1978
Geometry as Structure in Contemporary Art, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton
College.
1978
Prints of the Twentieth Century: A Selection from the Wheaton College Collection,
Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College.
1975
Printout: An Exhibition of Computer-Generated Graphics, Beard & Weil Galleries,
Wheaton College. Essay subsequently, chosen as the introduction for Artist and
Computer, ed., Ruth Leavitt (New York, Harmony Books).
1969
The Portrait Bust, Renaissance to Enlightenment, Museum of Art Rhode Island
School of Design. For this catalogue, written jointly by seven graduate students,
I was responsible for the entries dealing with Renaissance sculpture, and for
compiling a bibliography of 91 entries on literature pertaining to portrait
bustsand medallions.
IV. Exhibition Catalogues: (edited)
1994
Meryl Brater: The Form of Language, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College
(ed. and preface by Ann H. Murray; essay by Susan L. Stoops, Curator, Rose Art
Museum, Brandeis University).
1993
Fiber and Feathers: Native Baskets of North America and Featherworks of South
America, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College (catalogue by Elizabeth
Zarur, with essays by four students in her course Native American Arts and Culture;
ed. and preface by Ann H. Murray).
1991
Giovanni Baptista Piranesi and the New Vision of Classical Antiquity, Beard
& Weil Galleries, Wheaton College (text by Thomas J. McCormick; ed. and
preface by Ann H. Murray).
1979
Prints of the Nineteenth Century: A Selection from the Wheaton College Collection,Wheaton
College (exhibition curated by students in museology seminar taught by Ann H.
Murray).
1976
Process of Perfection, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College (exhibition
curated by studentsin museology taught by Ann H. Murray and Ronald J. Onorato
seminar, with catalogue edited by Ann H. Murray). Catalogue abstracted in Répertoire
International de la Littérature de l'Art, vol. 3, no. 2, (1977), 4345.
Catalogue distributed by: Worldwide Books, Inc., Boston; Select Press Book Service,
Contoocook, N.H.; and Centor Di, Florence Italy (1976). Catalogue reviewed by
Eugenia S. Robbins in Art Journal, vol. 1 (Fall 1976), p. 249.
V. Selected Art Reviews:
1978
"Boston '78" (The Brockton Art Center-Fuller Memorial), Anyart Journal
(Spring), pp. 52-54.
"Alice Aycock: Projects Entitled 'Studies for a Town'" (Museum of
Modern Art, New York), Anyart Journal (Spring), pp. 56-57.
"Stanley Boxer: Recent Paintings" (Boston Museum of Fine Arts), Anyart
Journal (Winter), pp. 49-51.
"Lucio Fontana, 1899-1968: A Retrospective: (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum),
Anyart Journal (Winter), pp. 49-51.
1977
"Prints of the Seventies" (Boston Museum of Fine Arts), Anyart Journal
(Fall), p. 47.
"Art from the World of Beatrix Potter" (Boston Museum of Fine Arts),
Anyart Journal (Fall), pp. 46-47.
"Jerry Clapsaddle: Visual Textures" Anyart Journal (Fall), p. 45.
"Charlotte Shoemaker" (Brockton Art Center, Fuller Memorial), Anyart
Journal (Summer), p. 39.
"Degas at the Metropolitan Museum," Anyart Journal (May-June), pp.
36-37.
"Larry Bell: The Iceberg and its Shadow" (Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts
Institute ofTechnology), Anyart Journal (March), pp. 35-36.
Exhibitions, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton
College (unless otherwise noted all exhibitions were curated by Ann H. Murray)
2001
Hidden Geometries: Livia Campanella St. Florian, Spring.
TactileImages: Paintings & Painted Objects by Bill Hutson, Spring.
2000
Tim Cunard: Recent Work, Fall.
Candace Jans: Paintings (with catalogue), Fall. (Exhibition traveled to Fischbach
Gallery, New York.)
Remnants: Ancient Forests and City Trees: Prilla Smith Brackett (with catalogue),
Fall.
The Art of the Print: Selections from the Wheaton College Collection (curated
by students in Prof. Evelyn Lane's senior art history seminar, with catalogue
edited by Evelyn S,. Lane, preface by Ann H. Murray).
"Variations on the Mutated Heart:" Bob Dilworth
1999
Judy Lapides: Paintings Fall
Image into Process/Process into Image: New Work by Soles, Stone and Van Camp,
(with brochure).
Black and White: Photographs by Dorothy Karper Monolley, Fall.
An American Composer Looks at Egypt: Ruth Lynda Deyo and The Diadem of Stars,
co-curated with Ann Sears (Music Department), Zephorine Stickney (College Archivist
and Curator of Special Collections), and Kelly Dann (Class of 2000). (with catalogue)
Spring
1998
David Macaulay: Shortcut to Rome, Fall
Alice Spencer: Polymer and Carved Plaster Paintings, Fall
Paysages catalans: Paintings and Drawings by Judith Nulty, Fall
A Dialogue with the Sea: Photographs by Andrew K. Howard, Spring
Office of the Dead: Topographic Wall Sculptures by Harriet Feigenbaum (with
catalogue), Fall
Re: Turnings: Recent Prints by Claudia R. Fieo (with brochure), Fall
1997
Generations: An Exhibition in Honor of Vaino Kola and his Students, 1969-1993
(with catalogue), Fall
Ether Dreams Shaping Vapors: Recent Sculpture by Tim Cunard, Spring
The Art of Drawing: Selections from the Wheaton College Collection, (curated
by students of Prof. Roberta Olson's senior art history seminar, with catalogue
edited by Roberta J.M. Olson, preface by Ann H. Murray).
1996
Michael Shaughnessy: New Installation, Fall
The Urban Landscape: Five Visions (Jean Cain, Mark Freedman, Ping-hsing Ku,
Joseph Norman, Howard Skrill), Fall
Patty Stone: The Canonical Hours and Other Works, Spring
Intervals: Silver Point Paintings by Susan Schwalb, Spring
1995
Ken Horii and Harriet Pappas: Rattles, Eye Traps and Other Votive Offerings,
(with brochure), Fall
Inspired by Nature: Sculpture and Drawings by Marty Cain, Fall
Jack Wolfe, Paintings from a Decade- Selections from the Wittgenstein, Bogata
and Quest Series, 1985-1996, Fall
Waiting: Paintings by Susan Hoffman Fishman, Spring
Sinbad's Isle: Photographs from Lamu by Susan O'Connor, Spring
Vaughn Grylls: White Man's Tales (with catalogue), Fall
1994
Daniel Dutton: The Secret Commonwealth, Fall
Meryl Brater: The Form of Language (with catalogue), Fall. (Reviewed by Charles
Giuliano in Art New England; chosen as one of the 10 best Boston area exhibitions
in 1994 in The Improper Bostonian.
Her Story: Three Visual Tales about Women's History (with commentary), Spring
Prized Possessions: Sculpture, Artifacts, Textiles and Decorative Arts from
the Permanent Art Collection, Spring, (curated by Sarah Austin '94, under the
supervision of Ann Murray).
1993
Two in One Show, Fall
Chiaroscuro: Prints by Claudia R. Fieo
Cambodian Portraits - Attleboro, Massachusetts: Photographs by Andrew K. Howard
Fiber and Feathers: Native Baskets of North America and Featherworks of South
America, Fall, (guest curator Elizabeth Zarur, with catalogue).
Artfully Designed and Finely Crafted: An Exhibition Celebrating 1993 - "The
Year of American Craft", Fall. (Reviewed by Jennifer Williams for the Attleboro
Sun Chronicle).
Alchemical Reconnaissance: Photographs by John Huddleston, Spring
Geraldine Erman: Sculpture, Spring. (Reviewed by Carole Calo in Art New England).
1992
Gregory Gomez: Recent Work, Fall
Objects with Voice: Sculpture by Gail Scott White, Fall
Free in Spirit #3: Fabric and Fiber Art by Susan Thompson, Fall
Vaino Kola/Paintings (with commentary), Spring
Candace Jans: Paintings from New England Collections (with catalogue), Spring
1991
Cone Shaped Dreams: recent sculpture by Tim Cunard, Fall
Nineteenth Century Paintings and Drawings from the Wheaton College Collection
(with commentary), Fall
David Shapiro Sculptures (with commentary), Fall. (Reviewed in the Taunton Gazette
and the Attleboro Sun.)
Dialogue with Ancient Memories: Works in Paper, Clay and Fire by Squidge Davis,
Fall.
Piranesi and the New Vision of Classical Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century,
(with catalogueby Thomas J. McCormick), Spring. (Reviewed by The Providence
Journal), and elsewhere).
The Invisible Tourist: Photographs by Neal Graham, Spring.
Lynn Curtis: Paintings, Fall
1990
2 to B Seen, sculpture and drawings by Loretta and David Barnett, Fall.
Elizabeth Tracy: Recent Paintings from the "Euleusis Series", Fall.
1988
Vaino Kola: Beauty and Loneliness: Images of Iceland (with commentary) Spring.
Dime Store Deco (with catalogue), Spring. Reviewed by Robert Taylor, The Boston
Globe, The Brockton Enterprise, The Attleboro Sun Chronicle, The Wheaton Wire.
1987
From Wheaton's Collection (works of art pertaining to courses offered in Fall
1987, with extensive commentary), Fall.
1983
Judith Nulty: Recent Landscapes, (with brochure), Spring Wheaton College (essay).
1981
Hugh Townley, Spring, with catalogue.
Nancy Helfant - sculpture; Andrew K. Howard - photographs; Roberta Delaney -
prints, Spring.
1980
Eleanor Norcross, Amy Cross, Edith Loring Getchell (organized at Wheaton and
traveled to the Fitchburg Museum; with catalogue), Fall.
Judith Nulty and Candace Jans: Paintings, Fall.
Recent Acquisitions, Fall.
Vaino Kola: Works on Paper and Robert Scofield: Sculpture (with commentary),
Spring.
Seen Elsewhere: An Installation by Francesc Torres, Spring
Marcia Marcus: Paintings, Spring.
Collage: An Exhibition of Eleven Contemporary Artists, (with catalogue), Spring.
1979
Theo Westenberger '72: Photographs, Fall.
Anne McQueen '70: Photographs, Fall.
Nineteenth Century Prints: A Selection from the Wheaton College Collection with
catalogue resulting from museology seminar, Fall.
Nancy Hemenway - Teacher/Amy Gray - Student, (with commentary), Fall.
Allusive Illusions (with catalogue), Spring. Reviewed in Wheaton College Newsletter
(May 1979).
North American Indian Masks (with catalogue by M. Genevieve Sprinkle '80 and
Susan A. Sinberg '80), Spring.
Images: An Exhibition of Photographs by Andrew K. Howard, Spring.
1978
Geometry as Structure in Contemporary Art (with catalogue) Fall. Reviewed by
Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe (December 3).
Allan Ludwig: The Playground on Grand and Baxter Street in New York City (photographs),
Fall.
Priscilla Bender Shore: Drawings/Paintings, Fall. Reviewed by Robert Taylor,
The Boston Globe.
Conservation: A New Look (conserved paintings from the Wheaton College Collection),
Fall.
Peter Lipsitt - Work in Progress (with commentary), Spring.
Peter Berg - Installation (with commentary), Spring.
Charlotte Shoemaker: Wall Pieces - Floor Pieces (with commentary), Spring. Reviewed
by Edward J. Sozanski, The Providence Journal (March 17).
Lois Grabois: Works from 1975-1977, Spring (with commentary). Reviewed by Edward
J. Sozanski, The Providence Journal (March 17).
1977
Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints from the Wheaton College Collection (with catalogue
by Audrey Nevens '77), Spring.
Rochelle Levy: Paintings (with commentary), Fall.
Nancy Helfant: Hard Shadows (with commentary), Fall.
Bruce Helander: Recent Work (with commentary), Fall.
Wheaton: A Visual History (with catalogue by Susan Werner O'Day '77), Fall.
Nadine Hurst - Five Clay Sculptures, Spring.
A Selection of Paintings from the Wheaton College Collection, Spring.
Anton Vizy (with commentary), Spring. Reviewed by Robert Taylor, Critic's Choice,
The Boston Globe.
1976
Process of Perfection, (with catalogue by students in museology seminar taught
by Ann H. Murray and Ronald J. Onorato), Fall.
Richard Calabro: Four Movements, Fall.
Vaino Kola: Selected Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1973-1976, Fall. Reviewed
by Robert Taylor, Critics Choice, The Boston Globe (September 24).
Looking in - an exhibition of photographs and related poetry, by David Vogt
and Ancelyn Vogt (Lynch), Spring.
Prints and Drawings from the Wheaton College Collection, Spring.
Alyce Aycock: Projects, Plans, and Specifications, Spring.
Contemporary Crafts, Spring.
1975-76
Hand-Painted China (1887-1957) from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs.J. Danforth
Edwards (Edith Sawyer '24). Display cases, A-Level.
1975
Hugh Merrill: Etchings, Fall.
Peter Lipsitt: Sculpture Drawings, Fall.
Marilyn Levin: Window Series, Fall.
John Baker - Paintings, Fall. Reviewed by Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, September
10.
Una Wilkinson - Paintings, Fall.
Labyrinth (with catalogue by Ronald J. Onorato, Curatorial Assistant, Beard
& Weil Galleries), Fall. Traveled to: The Philadelphia College of Art and
the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, DC. Reviewed: Victoria Donohue, Philadelphia
Inquirer (October 31; Nessa Forman, Philadelphia Sun (November 3); and April
Kingsley, Artforum, vol. 14 (February)
Printout: An Exhibition of Computer-Generated Graphics (with catalogue), Spring.
(Introduction subsequently republished in Artist and Computer, cited above).
1974
John Udvardy - Constructions, Fall 1974 (Reviewed by Lois Grabois, Art in America
(March-April).
Stephen Smalley - Recent Work, Fall.
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