Nancy
J.
(814) 641-3456
e-mail: siegel@juniata.edu
Education:
Ph.
D. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 1999 Nominated
for University Honors. Dissertation
Title: "Hellfire and Damnation: The Presence of God and the Hope for
Salvation in Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire and Selected Writings."
M.A.
and Museum Studies Program Certificate Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 1994 Master's Thesis: "An Artist Patronized
-The Abstract Paintings of Katherine S. Dreier."
B.A.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 1988
Departmental
Honors: "The Feminine Critique, The Paintings of May Stevens,
1968-78."
Publications: Books:
An Acquired Taste: Patriotic Imagery in the Home and
the Shaping of a National Culinary Culture. (under contract, University Press of New England).
The Cultured Canvas: A Social History of American
Landscape Painting. Co-author and
editor (in progress: contributors:
Sarah Burns, Eleanor Harvey, Franklin Kelly, Katherine Manthorne, David
Schuyler, Nancy Siegel, Janice Simon, Alan Wallach).
Within the Landscape: Essays on Nineteenth-Century
American Art and Culture
(Contributors: Kevin Avery, Matthew Baigell, David Schuyler, Nancy Siegel, Alan
Wallach) Co-editor and contributor. (Pennsylvania State University Press in
association with the Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, 2005).
Along the Juniata: Thomas Cole and the Dissemination
of American Landscape Imagery (Seattle: University of Washington Press in
association with the Juniata College Museum of Art, 2003). Reviewed in Pennsylvania
History (Autumn, 2003) and Print Quarterly (December, 2003).
The Morans: The Artistry of a Nineteenth-Century
Family of Painter-Etchers
(Huntingdon, PA: Juniata Press, 2001). Reviewed in Print Quarterly
(September, 2001).
Uncommon Visions of Juniata’s Past (Dover, NH: Arcadia Publishing, 2000).
Publications:
Articles
“’To
Elevate the Mind’: Female Instruction, Women Artists, and the Hudson River
School,” to be included in The Cultured
Canvas: A Social History of American Landscape Painting. Co-author and
editor. (in progress)
“Cooking
Up American Politics.” Forthcoming, Gastronomica,
8 no.3 (Summer, 2008)
“Before
the
“Decorative
Nature: The Emblematic Imagery of Thomas Cole.” In Within the Landscape: Essays on Nineteenth-Century American Art and
Culture. (Pennsylvania State University Press in association with the Trout
Gallery, Dickinson College, 2005).
“’I
never had so difficult a picture to paint:’ Albert Bierstadt’s White Mountain
Scenery and The Emerald Pool.” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 4 no.3
(Autumn, 2005).
“An
Oil Sketch by Thomas Cole of the Ruins of
Kenilworth Castle.” The Burlington Magazine (September, 2002):
557-559.
“Municipal
Parks in New York City: Olmsted, Riis, and the Transformation of the Urban
Landscape, 1858-1897.” Co-author, Mary Hague. In Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes. Eds. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi (Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books, 2002): 153-191.
“Scratching and Biting: the Etched Works of
Mary Nimmo Moran.” Women’s Arts News (January, 2002): 1-2.
“Painted
Image, Inspirational Text: Thomas Cole and the Influence of John Bunyan.” In Image and Text: American Creativity and the
Relationship between Writing and the Visual Arts, ed. Mark Andrew White
(Wichita, KS: the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, 2000): 15-26.
"An
Artist Patronized, The Abstract Paintings of Katherine S. Dreier." The
Rutgers Art Review 12/13 (1993): 23-45.
Opulence in An Age of Industry (New
Brunswick, NJ: The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1993): catalogue entries
and essays: 1-10; 21-23; 25; 33-35.
“A
Pastoral Landscape by a Follower of Jan Josefsz van Goyen” in Selected
Works on Loan from the New Jersey State Museum (New Brunswick, NJ: The Jane
Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1991): 9-12.
Publications: Reviews
“’Widow’s
Work’— Artists’ Estates: Reputations in Trust.” Aurora, vol. 7 (2006): 90-95.
“One
Artist, Three Museums, and Sixty-Six Years of Lancaster History: The Worlds of
Jacob Eichholtz.” Pennsylvania History
71 no.1 (Winter 2004): 87-95.
Philadelphia’s
Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy by Katharine Martinez and Page Talbott, eds. Book review. Aurora
,vol. 3 (2002): 122-131.
Scholarly Papers Presented:
“To Elevate
the Mind: Female Instruction and the Women of the Hudson River School.” To be
presented at the College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA. February 25-28,
2009.
“Becoming America: The Myth of the ‘Indian
Princess’ in Eighteenth-Century Prints.” Society for Historians of the Early
American Republic, Philadelphia, PA. July 17-19, 2008.
“Piss
Off: Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Prints of Protest from the American
Revolution.” American Society for 18th-Century Studies, Portland,
OR. March 26-29, 2008.
“Hail
to the Cheese: An Archival Quest for Thomas Jefferson’s Mammoth Cheddar.” American
Society for 18th-Century Studies, Atlanta, GA. March 22-24, 2007.
“A Cup of Independence and Two Pounds of
Liberty: Reading Recipes as Socio-Political Documents.” American Society for 18th-Century
Studies, Montreal, Quebec. March 30-April 2, 2006.
“Tempest
in a Teapot: British Responses to American Tea Consumption in the War for
Independence.” Paper presented at the British Society for 18th-Century
Studies, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University, UK. January 4-6, 2006.
“Pastoral Landscapes: Watercolors of the East by
Thomas Moran.” Washington County Museum
of Art, Hagerstown, MD. May 13, 2005.
“In the Name of Liber-tea: Tea Consumption as a
Socio-Political Symbol in the Early Republic.” College Art Association,
Atlanta, GA. February 16-19, 2005.
“Swallow Your Pride: Food as a Nationalistic Symbol
in the Early Republic.” American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA. November
11-14, 2004.
“Decorative Nature: The Artistry of Thomas Cole as
Emblematic Imagery.” Symposium Paper presented at: Within the Landscape: Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century American
Scenery. The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College. March 27, 2004.
“Along the Juniata: Thomas Cole and the
Dissemination of American Landscape Scenery.” Lecturer at the Phillips Museum
of Art, Lancaster, PA. February 10, 2004.
“An Acquired Taste: The Role of Staffordshire Soup
Plates in the Purchase of Culture and the Art of Thomas Cole.” The McNeil
Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania. August, 21, 2003.
“Deconstructing Cole: Consumerism and The Marketing
of American Landscape Imagery.”
Panelist. Symposium held at the Jersey
City Museum, New Jersey, (De)Constructing America: Art and Culture in the
United States in the 19th Century. March 8, 2003.
“Dishing it Out: Staffordshire Pottery and American
Nationalism- a Transatlantic Journey.” American Studies Association, Houston,
TX. November 14-17, 2002.
“Pleasing the National Palate: American landscapes
at the Bottom of Staffordshire Soup Plates.” Southeastern College Art
Conference, Mobile, AL. October 23-26, 2002.
"Over the River and Through the Woods:
Topographical Accuracy and the Art of Thomas Cole." PA Department of
Conservation and Natural Resources: Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey,
Middletown, PA. October 18, 2002.
“Of Fields and Farmlands- Images of the Eastern
Seaboard by Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran.”
Invited speaker, the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ. September 8, 2002.
“A Drawing, An Etching, and A Pink Soup Plate: The
Dissemination of American Landscape Imagery through the Art of Thomas Cole.” American
Culture Association. Toronto, Canada. March 13-16, 2002.
“A Family
Affair: Alma Mater and the Art of Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran.” Invited speaker
and guest curator. Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. October 4,
2001.
"The
Intimate Panorama: Recently Discovered Works by Thomas Moran." American
Culture Association/Southwest Texas Popular Culture Annual Meeting.
Albuquerque, NM. March 7-10, 2001.
"Hellfire
and Damnation: Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire and his Vision of
Salvation." Nineteenth-Century Studies Association annual conference.
Marymount College, Arlington, VA. March 23-25, 2000.
"Painted
Image, Inspirational Text: Thomas Cole and the Influence of John Bunyan."
Paper presented for the symposium "Image and Text: American Creativity and
the relationship Between Writing and the Visual Arts," at the Edwin A.
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS. January 21-22, 2000.
"Urban
Landscapes in the 1890s: Captured in Art, Transformed by Politics."
Co-author, Dr. Mary Hague. Society for Philosophy and Geography. Towson
University, Towson, MD. April 30, 1999.
"In
Miniature: Selections from the Worth B. Stottlemyer Collection at Juniata
College." Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA. April 7, 1998.
"The
Course of New York: The Impact of the American City on Thomas Cole's The
Course of Empire." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
conference. University of California, Santa Cruz. April 7-8, 1995.
"In
Our Own Backyard: Themes in American Outdoor Sculpture." Paper presented
for "Save Outdoor Sculpture," a joint project of the National Museum
of American Art and the National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural
Property. Ocean Grove, NJ. November 5, 1994.
"The
Rediscovery of America - 19th-Century New Jersey Landscape Artists." New
Jersey Committee for the Humanities. South Brunswick, NJ. September 9, 1993.
Grants and Awards:
2009:
Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, Research Fellow.
2008-09:
Winterthur Museum and Library, Winterthur, DE, Research Fellow.
2008:
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, Jay T. Last Research Fellow.
2008:
Goodman Professional Development Funds for Faculty/Student Research, Juniata
College.
2006:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Visiting Fellowship.
2005:
Winterthur Museum and Library, Winterthur, DE, Research Fellowship, Eleanor McD. Thompson Fellow.
2004:
Everett Helm Fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University.
2003:
Summer Research Stipend, Juniata College.
2002-
2003: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Museum Conservation
Project.
2002-2003:
Corporate Sponsorship for the exhibition,
Along the Juniata- Thomas Cole and the Dissemination of American Landscape
Imagery (April-Sept., 2003),
Kish Bank.
2001:
Summer Research Stipend, Juniata College.
2000-2001:
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Archives and Records Management
Grant.
1999-2000:
Getty Grant Institute, Conservation Survey Grant.
1998-1999:
Institute of Museum and Library Services, Conservation Assessment Grant.
1997-1999:
Gahagen Charitable Trust Research Grant.
