Nancy J. Siegel

Juniata College Museum of Art

1700 Moore Street - Huntingdon, PA 16652

(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 the Hudson River School. Co-author and editor (in progress: contributors: Sarah Burns, Eleanor Harvey, Franklin Kelly, Katherine Manthorne, David Schuyler, Nancy Siegel, 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

“Independence Cake and Liberty Tea: Cooking Up American Politics.” (forthcoming, Gastronomica, 2008)

“’To Elevate the Mind’: Female Instruction, Women Artists, and the Hudson River School,” to be included in The Cultured Canvas: A Social History of the Hudson River School. Co-author and editor. (in progress)

“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:

“Piss Off: Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Prints of Protest from the American Revolution.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for 18^th-Century Studies, Portland, OR. March 26-29, 2008.

“Hail to the Cheese: An Archival Quest for Thomas Jefferson’s Mammoth Cheddar.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for 18^th-Century Studies, Atlanta, GA. March 22-24, 2007.

“A Cup of Independence and Two Pounds of Liberty: Reading Recipes as Socio-Political Documents.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for 18^th-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 18^th-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.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, Atlanta, GA. February 16-19, 2005.

“Swallow Your Pride: Food as a Nationalistic Symbol in the Early Republic.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA. November 11-14, 2004.

“Decorative Nature: The Artistry of Thomas Cole as Emblematic Imagery.” Paper presented at the Symposium: 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 19^th Century. March 8, 2003.

“Dishing it Out: Staffordshire Pottery and American Nationalism- a Transatlantic Journey.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Houston, TX. November 14-17, 2002.

“Pleasing the National Palate: American landscapes at the Bottom of Staffordshire Soup Plates.” Paper presented at 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.” Paper presented to the 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." Paper to be presented at the 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." Paper presented at the 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. Paper presented to the 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." Paper presented to the 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." Paper presented for the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities. South Brunswick, NJ. September 9, 1993.

Grants and Awards:

20009: 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.

Public Lecture Series:

            Scratching and Biting: the Artistry and Etching of Mary Nimmo Moran

The Intimate Panorama: East Coast Watercolors by Thomas Moran

A History of the Hudson River School and the Growth of American Identity.

Hatch and Stipple: The Making of Portrait Miniatures in Europe and America.

Art for Art's Sake (lecture series on the history of art for middle and high school students).