AHNCA Events at CAA 2010

Private Viewing at Art Institute of Chicago

AHNCA members are invited to a private visit to the Prints and Drawings Study as well as the newly re-installed 19^th-century galleries. Martha Tedeschi, Curator of Prints and Drawings, will introduce members to highlights and recent acquisitions in the museum’s collection of works on paper. We will next meet with Gloria Groom, David and Mary Winton Green Curator, for a guided look at the recently re-installed Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works. Members who wish to continue the conversation over refreshments may adjourn to nearby Miller’s Pub. This event will take place on Wednesday, February 10 at 2:30. There is no cost for AHNCA members, but space is limited. Please contact Elizabeth Mansfield ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) before January 15, 2010 to reserve your place.

Reduced Rate Admissions at Driehaus Museum

Opened to the public in 2008, the Driehaus Museum is a late 19^th-century house museum that occupies the Dickerson Mansion, designed in 1879 by Burling and Whitehouse of Chicago. The house remains in an astonishing state of preservation and holds the Driehaus Collection of  Fine & Decorative Arts. The collection’s emphasis is on works made between 1880 and 1920 and includes examples by Majorelle, Gallé, Herter Bros., John La Farge, and Tiffany, among many others. AHNCA members may take advantage of a reduced-price entry of $10 for a guided tour on Saturday morning. If you’re interested in visiting the Driehaus during CAA, contact Elizabeth Mansfield ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) before January 15, 2010.

AHNCA-Sponsored Sessions at CAA

Julie F. Codell, Professor of Art History at Arizona State University, will moderate the annual “Future Directions” panel, which features the following speakers and topics: Sean Weiss (CUNY Graduate Center), “Engineering, Photography, and New Model of Pedagogy”; Erin Leery (University of Rochester) , “Sowing the Seeds of Nativism and Eugenics in America: Domestic Arts and Anti-Immigrant Political Action”; and Emily Morgan (University of Arizona), “The Dignity of Disinfection: The Labor and Rhetoric of Disease Containment in Street Life in London.”

Neil McWilliam, Walter H. Annenberg Professor at Duke University, will chair the session “Myths of the Nation in 19th-Century Visual Culture” on Thursday at 2:30pm. Speakers include: Leo Costello (Rice University), “‘Empire's Dust”?: Disintegration and Formation in Turner's Waterloo”; Jan Dirk Baetens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), “Capturing Liberalism for the Nation: Henry Leys and the Murals for Antwerp City Hall”; Michael Orwicz (University of Connecticut), “From ‘Peuple’ to ‘Nation’: State Nationalism, Class Conflict, and Aesthetics in Early Third Republic France”; and Dena Crosson (Independent Scholar), “Creating Spanishness: The Institución Libre de Enseñanza, El Greco, & the Myth of Toledo.”

Business Meeting

AHNCA’s annual business meeting takes place Friday at 12:30. The location of this and other AHNCA events at CAA will appear in the conference program and will be posted on www.ahnca.org in January.