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Arline Meyer—Associate Professor Emeritus

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Arline Meyer

Professor Meyer's primary area of expertise is European art of the eighteenth century, with a special interest in British Art and in the genres of landscape, portraiture, satire and caricature, and sporting art. She has curated and written the catalogues for two major exhibitions: in London, at Kenwood House, on Landscape and Sporting Art in Early Georgian England; and at the Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, on the legacy of Raphael's Tapestry Cartoons in Eighteenth-Century England. She consults for many academic and commercial publishers, as well as for auction houses including Sotherby's and Christie's. Her pre-academic careers (first as a painter and then as a designer) surface in her course 'Artistic Materials and Techniques.'


Education

  • Ph. D. 1982 Columbia University: Dept. of Art History and Archaeology
  • M. A. 1975 Columbia University: Dept. of Art History and Archaeology
  • B. A. 1955 University of Chicago

Publications

    Articles & Essays

  • "Man's Animal Nature: Science, Art, & Satire in Thomas Rowlandson's 'Studies in Comparative Anatomy,'" in Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics, ed. Frank Palmeri, London: Ashgate, 2006
  • "From the Foothills of Parnassus; viewed by Thomas Rowlandson and John Wolcot (alias Peter Pindar), The British Art Journal, March 2002
  • "John Wootton," in "The New Dictionary of National Biography, (DNB), 1999 "Re-dressing Classical Statuary: The Eighteenth-Century 'Hand-in-Waistcoat' Portrait" Art Bulletin, March 1995.
  • "Sir William Musgrave's Portrait Lists: Head Hunting in the 1790s," The Walpole Society, V. 54, 1992.
  • "Wootton at Wimpole," Apollo Magazine, September 1985, pp. 212–219.
  • "Household Mock-Heroics," Country Life, 9 February 1984, pp. 340–342.
  • Catalogue entries: Gris; Miro; Vuillard; Meidner; Nauman, Modern Portraits: The Self and Others, ed. Kurt Varnedoe, Wildenstein, 1976.
  • "Jack Heliker," Arts Magazine, September 1983, p. 22.
  • "John Wootton and The Augustan Age: From Newmarket to Arcadia," Arts in Virginia, Virginia, Museum of Fine Arts

    • Books, Edited Volumes, & Exhibition Catalogues

  • Apostles in England: Sir James Thornhill and the Legacy of Raphael's Tapestry Cartoons, University of Washington Press, 1996.
  • John Wootton 1682–1764: Landscape and Sporting Art in Early Georgian England, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, Greater London Council, 1984.
  • Indonesian Art, The Brooklyn Museum, 1960.

    • Reviews

  • Reviewer of "Seventeenth Century French and English Art" for the new 7th edition of Jansen's History of Art, 2006
  • Review of French Architectural and Ornamental Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, in The Drawing Society (Jan./Feb. 1993).
  • Review of The Drawings of Guercino at Windsor Castle, in The Drawing Society, July/Aug. 1991
  • Review of Domenico Tiepolo, The Punchinello Drawings in The Drawing Society, March 1987
  • Monthly Exhibition Reviews for Art News 1959–60.

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

    Presentations

  • "Thomas Rowlandson's Studies after (long after) the Antique," Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Symposium on Caricature, March 2006
  • "Thomas Rowlandson's "Studies in Comparative Anatomy" American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Boston. Paper to be delivered March 2004
  • "Bloodlines and Breeding, The Turf and Chase: The Golden age of British Sporting Art," Mellon Lecture, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the exhibition "Gone Away": Gifts from the Estate of Paul Mellon. April 2002
  • "Thomas Rowlandson and Peter Pindar tweak the 'Sons of Paint,'" American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, April 2000
  • "The Eighteenth Century 'Hand-in-Waistcoat' Portrait," OSU Symposium: Gesture as Text: Reading Bodies in 18th-Century Culture 12 March 1999
  • "Landscape Gardening; The Classical Tradition," Brigham Young University 1999
  • Invited respondent to Donald Posner's plenary speech, ASECS, Milwaukee 1999
  • "Gardens of Early Modern Italy, France and England," OSU Early Modern Seminar, 1998
  • "Landscape and Sporting Art of John Wootton," Kenwood House, London, 1984
  • "The Classical Tradition in Landscape Garden Design" Columbus Museum of Art
  • "The Eighteenth Century 'Hand-in-Waistcoat' Portrait," MId-Western Association of Eighteenth Century Studies
  • "The Classical Underpinnings of the English Landscape Painting Tradition," University of Maryland, and Duke University
  • "Classical Landscape Painting"; Post College NY
  • "Literary aspects of Early Eighteenth-Century Landscape Painting in England," Columbia University Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture

Professional Activities

    Consultations

  • Sotheby's London & NY, Christies, London & NY; Bonhams; Spinks; Richard Green (et al in London); Swann Galleries (NY).
  • Advisory Board—University of Delaware Press "Studies in 17th-and 18th-Century Art and Culture

    • Curated Exhibitions

  • Guest Curator: Ira & Miriam Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, for the exhibition "Apostles in England: Sir James Thornhill and the Legacy of Raphael's Tapestry Cartoons," October 15-December 21, 1996
  • Guest Curator: The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, London "John Wootton: Landscape and Sporting Art in Early Georgian England" Summer, 1984
  • Brooklyn Museum Curatorial Fellow: Designed and installed the galleries of Indonesian and Ainu Art

    • Professional Affiliations

  • The Walpole Society
  • American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
  • Historians of British Art
  • Historians of Eighteenth Century Art and Architecture
  • Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

  • OSU, College of the Arts/Departmental grant for photographs—2005
  • OSU, College of the Arts Research Grant—Level 2 2004 (Paris)
  • OSU, College of the Arts Research Grant—Level 1 2000 (London)
  • OSU, College of the Arts Research Grant—Level 1 1998
  • University Technologies Services Instructional Technologies Small Grant—1997
  • OSU Faculty Development Grant—to attend Raphael Conference at V&A—1996
  • Nat'l. Endowment of the Arts Special Exhibitions Grant $15,000—1995
  • American Philosophical Society Travel Grant—1995
  • OSU, College of the Arts Research Grant—Level 1 1995
  • OSU, College of the Arts Research Grant—Level 2 1994
  • OSU, College of the Arts Grant—1994
  • N. E.H. Summer Seminar, Harvard University: "Portraiture and Biography"—1990
  • Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, Research Grant: British Library—1985
  • N. E.H. Summer Institute, Yale CBA: "Art & Society in Eighteenth-Century England,"—1985
  • British Embassy and British Arts Council Travel Grant—1983
  • Resident Fellow, Yale University, Center for British Art—1983
  • amuel H. Kress Fellow (1980–81); Samuel H. Kress Grant—1979–80
  • Columbia University Summer Travel Grants—1977 & 1978
  • Brooklyn Museum Travel Grant to study Greek Museums—1961
  • Brooklyn Museum Curatorial Fellowship—1960/61

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