Artist Short Essay

Focusing on the 1900-1950 time period, students selected an artist of interest and wrote an wrote an essay about one one or more of that artist’s works in one of the following art collections: Karen and Kevin Kennedy ’70; Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute; and the Wellin Museum Collection of American Art.

Hillary Bisono Ortega ’21 – Georgia O’Keeffe: Prowess, Strength, and Femininity

Jay Carhart ’21 – The Dynamics of John Marin

Sunny Chen ’20 – Georgia O’Keeffe

Emma Fighera ’20 – Marsden Hartley the Transcendentalist

Amanda Ghiloni ’22 – Rural America Through The Eyes of Charles Burchfield

Jesse Gross ’22 – Reginald Marsh: The Britannic Sails and Texas Guinan and Her Gang

Sam Guindon ‘ 21 – Texas Guinan and Her Gang

Madeline Justiniano ’21 – Synesthesia and Insects

Kathryn Kearney ’21 – Stuart Davis and American Abstraction

Lydia McGinn ’22 – Georgia O’Keeffe’s Pelvis with Pedernal

Satchel McLaughlin ’22 – John Marin: Wind, Maine and Middle Manhattan Movement

Adriana Mullin ’21 – Paul Outerbridge, Jr.,  Ide Collar (An Advertisement made for Geo. P. Ide & Co.), 1922.

Olivia Munnelly ’20 – Charles Burchfield

Mary Bei Prince ’20 – Marsden Hartley

Lila Reid ’20 – Charles Burchfield’s Blackbirds, Spring Rain, and Crows in March in the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art Permanent Collection

Eliana Silk ’22 – Charles Demuth, The Cabaret