The Ohio State University The Department of History of Art The College of the Arts

Barbara Groseclose—Professor

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Barbara Groseclose

Professor Groseclose's primary area of expertise is in the history of American painting and sculpture, German-American art and the visual culture of British India. In addition to serving as guest curator for exhibitions at the University Art Museum, UC-Berkeley, the National Museum of American Art, and the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service, Professor Groseclose has lectured on American art throughout the United States and Europe, and was a guest speaker for the USIA in India. She has served as organizing chair for academic sessions at College Art Association, American Studies Association, and the Association of Historians of American Art; in addition, she has been a juror for the John Hope Franklin prize (for the best book in American Studies), the Netherlands-American Commission for Education Exchange, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Bode-Pearson prize (for outstanding scholar of American Studies). Her awards include fellowships from the Kress Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Smithsonian Indo-US subcommission, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1994 she was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and in 2002 she serves as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair of History and Civilization in Florence.


Education

  • Ph D (art history), University of Wisconsin, Madison, December, 1973
  • M. A. (art history), University of Wisconsin, Madison, January, 1969
  • Gasthoerer, Friedrich-Wilhelm Universitat, Bonn, Germany, 1967–8
  • B. A. magna cum laude (literature), University of Tennessee; December, 1965

Publications

    Articles & Essays

  • "Midwestern Art: an Overview," Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Indiana University Press, 2006)
  • "Imagining a Homeland, Borrowing a Symbol: Italians in the US as Patrons of Public Art," Migrants and the Homeland: Images, Symbols and Realities, ed. Harald Runblom (Uppsala University Press, 2000)
  • "Representations of America in Nineteenth-Century Art," Blackwell's Companion to Nineteenth Century American History, ed. William Barney (Blackwell's Publ., 2000)
  • "Death, Glory: Art," Colonialism Transposed: the Impact of the Colonies on British Culture, ed. Julia Codell and Diane Macleod (Scolar Press, 1998); currently being translated for Japanese publisher
  • "Andreas Achenbach und die Amerikanischen Kuenstler in Duesseldorf," Andreas und Oswald Achenbach, der A. und. O. von Landschaftsmalerie, Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf (Prestel Verlag, 1997)
  • "A Nation's Legacy," 150 Years of American Painting in Ohio Collections, Columbus Museum of Art (Ashai Shimbun, 1992). Also publ. in Japanese
  • "American Genesis: the Landing of Columbus," American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American Art, ed. T. Gaehtgens and H. Ickstadt (Abrams, 1992)
  • "The 'Missouri Artist' as Historian," George Caleb Bingham, ed. Michael Shapiro, St. Louis Museum of Art/ National Gallery of Art (Abrams, 1990)
  • American Art, Journal of the National Women's Studies Association, Art History (UK), American Art Journal, Winterthur Portfolio, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, Antiques, Nineteenth Century Prose, Comparative Drama, Michigan Quarterly Review

    • Books, Edited Volumes, & Exhibition Catalogues

  • Internationalizing American Art History, co-editor (with Jochen Wierich), Penn State University Press, forthcoming 2007
  • Nineteenth Century American Art (Oxford University Press, 2000)
  • British Sculpture and the Company Raj: Church Monuments and Public Statuary in Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta (Associated University Presses, 1995)
  • Literature and the Visual Arts in Contemporary Society, co-editor (with Suzanne Ferguson), vol. II USA20/21 (Ohio State University Press, 1985)
  • Emanuel Leutze, 1816–1868 (Smithsonian Press, 1976)

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

    Invited Lectures

  • "Model Citizens: The Drawings of George Caleb Bingham," St. Louis Art Museum, December 2007.
  • McNeil Center for Early American Studies (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Historical Society of Pennsylvania
  • Denver Art Museum
  • Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
  • Cincinnati Art Museum
  • Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
  • Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies
  • St. Louis Museum of Art
  • Wayne State University
  • Detroit Public Library
  • Smithsonian Institution Members Lecture
  • Washington University of St. Louis
  • Ithaca College
  • Indiana University
  • Brigham Young University
  • Northwest Museum of Art and Culture
  • Schloss Charlottenburg (Berlin)
  • Tate/Britain (London)
  • National Maritime Museum (London) and universities in Sheffield (England)
  • Nijmegen (Netherlands)
  • Uppsala (Sweden)
  • Florence (Italy)
  • Trivandrum (India)
  • Colombo (Sri Lanka)

    • Other

  • Smithsonian Museum of American Art

Professional Activities

    General

  • 2004–present Fulbright Senior Specialists Advisory Board
  • 2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Museums Exhibition and Consultation Grants Panel
  • 2000–2005 Senior Consulting Editor, Encyclopedia of the Midwest, Indiana University Press (2006)
  • 2000–04 College Art Association Committee on Education
  • 1994–2000 Fellowship Evaluator, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
  • 1993 Juror, John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association

    • Memberships

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • College Art Association
  • American Studies Association
  • Association of Historians of American Art
  • British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

  • 2006 Visiting Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
  • 2004 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship
  • 2001 Fulbright Distinguished Chair of History and Civilization in Florence
  • 1994 Walt Whitman Chair of American Studies, Rijksuniversitat Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 1989 NEH Exhibition Planning Grant, "The Americanization of Christopher Columbus" quincentenary exhibition, awarded (institutional)
  • 1988 USIA Affiliation Grant, University of Genoa, co-applicant, awarded (institutional)
  • 1984 Indo-US Subcommission Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution
  • 1983 American Institute of Indian Studies, fellowship (declined)
  • 1981 Polaroid Foundation (program grant)
  • 1974 American Philosophical Society Travel Grant

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