Annette Stott

My Current Research Projects

Gender Politics of American Watercolor Painting A study investigating the gendering of the watercolor medium. This book-in-progress reviews watercolors by women from the colonial period to the present, and the effects of a gendered medium on the men and women who used it.

Rocky Mountain Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West This book-in-progress considers 19th-century pioneer community cemeteries and their arts in the mountain regions of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Chapters include: "From Boot Hill to Fair Mount: the Transformation of Rocky Mountain Graveyards", "Tombstone Carvers and Monument Makers of the Rocky Mountain West," M. Rauh, Riverside Marble Works and the Gendered Cemetery," "Mail-Order Monuments: Rocky Mountain Cemeteries in a National Context," and "the Sepulchral Garden in Western Life."

 

Dutch-American Art Projects

	Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture , a book by Annette Stott
	Hollandgekte, an exhibition at the Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen, the Netherlands, in 2001
	Going Dutch, Holland in America, 1609-2009, an International Conference at the University of Denver in 2005
	Dutch Utopia: American Artists in the Netherlands, 1880-1913: an exhibition in planning at teh Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia), Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah) and Singer Museum (Laren). Related to my 1986 dissertation, "American Painters Who Worked in the Netherlands, 1880-1913," Boston University, available from University Microfilms (UMI) at ProQuest.

Professional Experience:

• Director, School of Art & Art History, University of Denver, 1999-present
• Associate Professor, University of Denver, 1994-present
• Assistant Professor, University of Denver, 1991-1993
• Assistant Professor, Winthrop University, 1987-1991
• Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, Harvard University, 1989-1990
• Assistant Professor, University of Maine at Orono, 1986-1987

Educational Background:


• B.A., French & Art History, summa cum laude, Concordia College
• M.A., Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ph.D., Art History, Boston University

Selected Publications:
• "Inventing Memory: Picturing New Netherland in the Nineteenth Century." In Revisiting New Netherland, ed. Joyce Goodfriend, 13-39. Atlantic World Series, series eds Wim Klooster & Ben Schmidt. Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2005.
• "Neurasthenia and the New Woman: Thomas Eakins' Portrait of Amelia Van Buren." In In Sickness and in Health: Disease as Metaphor in Art and Popular Wisdom, ed. Laurinda S. Dixon, 125-143. Wilmington: University of Delaware Press, 2004.
• "The Woodmen of the World Monument Program." Markers XX (2003):1-29.
• "The Dutch Dining Room in Turn-of-the-Century America." Winterthur Portfolio, 37 (winter 2002): 219-238.
• Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture. New York: Overlook Press, 1998.
• "Transformative Triptychs in Multicultural America." The Art Journal 57 (Spring, 1998): 55-63.
• "Pioneer Women and Prairie Madonnas: Images of Emigrant Women in the Art of the Old West." Prospects 21 (1996): 299-325.
• "Amerikaanse Kunstenaars." In Katwijk in de schilderkunst, 110-120. Katwijk, North Holland: Katwijks Museum & Genootschap Oud Katwijk, 1995.
• "Floral Femininity, A Pictorial Definition." American Art, 6 (Spring, 1992): 60-77.
• "The Holland Years." In Gari Melchers: A Retrospective Exhibition, ed. Diane Lesko, 55-74. St. Petersburg, Florida: Museum of Fine Arts, 1990.