Schuyler Black-Seitz Researches American Artist Walter Quirt in New York, Connecticut, and Illinois
The building that houses a portion of the New York City Municipal Archives
Schuyler with Quirt's preparatory drawing for The Growth of Medicine from Primitive Times
The library of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
In April of 2022 graduate student Schuyler Black-Seitz received a Graduate Research Small Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences in addition to Cathleen M. Murnane Travel Scholarship funds to travel to New York City, Hartford, Connecticut, and Champaign, Illinois to conduct research on the American artist Walter Quirt.
Schuyler traveled to the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Krannert Art Museum. He also visited the Municipal Archives in New York City and the archives of the Museum of Modern Art.
The privilege to see Quirt’s work and to review primary documents in-person was critical to consider an artist whose exclusion from art history has been even more intense than many of his peers. Quirt retrospectively identified much of his art from the thirties as a waste of time. Schuyler's research elaborates on the importance of the artist's work to the 1930s, as well as Quirt's importance to art history.
