The Center’s Fellows Forum convenes regularly offering fellows an opportunity to lecture on their research projects and receive feedback from other scholars in the field, fellows, invited guests, and the general public.
Below is the schedule for the upcoming forum along with a list of all past forums, those who have participated in past forums, and the titles of their topics.
The Center’s Fall Fellows' Forum, took place on Thursday, November 21, 2019. The following papers were presented:
Collecting Philippine Art Objects in 20th century United States
Leah Abayao, Senior Fellow
Associate Professor of History, University of the Philippines Baguio
A Collection Vanishes: The Extraordinary Story of Eugenia Errázuriz, Patron and Friend of the Parisian Avant-garde
Penelope Rowlands, Leon Levy Fellow
Independent Scholar and Journalist
The Center’s Summer Fellows' Forum, took place on Tuesday, July 30, 2019. The following papers were presented:
From Private to Public: Three Thresholds and Their Measures at The Frick Collection
Anne Hilker, Junior Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, Bard Graduate Center, New York City
"A Delightful Resort": The Belgian Gallery and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York Art Market
Jan Dirk Baetens, Senior Fellow
Assistant Professor, Departments of Art History & Arts and Culture Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
The Center’s Spring Fellows’ Forum took place on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Papers were presented by two of the Winter/Spring 2019 Fellows:
"Lillie P. Bliss (1864–1931) and the New York Art Market"
Irene Walsh, Junior Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, the University of Edinburgh
"Stolen Art and History: A Curator Uncovers Theft from the Edward Hopper Estate"
Gail Levin, Leon Levy Fellow
Distinguished Professor, Baruch College, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Center’s Fall Fellows’ Lectures took place on Thursday, July 19, 2018, and Tuesday, October 23, 2018. Three papers were presented by the Summer/Fall 2018 Fellows:
Scientific Examination of Art: Connoisseurship, Collecting and Courtrooms
Thiago Piwowarczyk, Junior Research Fellow
Forensic Scientist
“In America Artistic Matters Are Treated in the Best Circles in a Far More Serious Way than in England”: David Croal Thomson’s 1898 Wooing of New York Collectors
Alison Clarke, Senior Research Fellow
Independent Scholar, London
Collecting as a Surrealists’ Practice: the Onslow Ford Collection in the 1930s and 1940s
Caterina Caputo, Leon Levy Fellow
Department of Art History, University of Florence
The Center’s Spring Fellows’ Forum took place on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. Papers were presented by the Winter/Spring 2018 Fellows:
Misia Natanson Sert – The Mystery and Mastery of an Art Collector
Anat Meidan, Junior Fellow
Independent Researcher and Art Collector, Tel Aviv
From Berlin to New York and back. Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner and Wilhelm von Bode: A Correspondence in Context
Petra Winter, Senior Fellow
Director, Central Archive, National Museums Berlin
Researching the Influence of Art Censorship on New York City Collectors in the Gilded Age
Amy Werbel, Leon Levy Fellow
Associate Professor of the History of Art, State University of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology
The Center’s Fall Fellows’ Forum took place on Thursday, November 2, 2017. Two papers were presented by the Summer/Fall 2017 Leon Levy and Senior Fellows:
Remapping the Spaces for American Art: New York’s Grand Central Art Galleries in the 1920s and 30s
Julie McGinnis Flanagan, Junior Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
“An Excellent Art Scout:” Harold Woodbury Parsons (1882-1967) and the Formation of the European Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Eliot Rowlands, Leon Levy Fellow
Independent Scholar
The Center’s Fall Fellows’ Forum took place on Tuesday, September 5, 2017. Two papers were presented by the Summer/Fall 2017 Leon Levy and Senior Fellows:
"An Excellent Art Scout:" Harold Woodbury Parsons (1882-1967) and the Formation of the European Collections at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Eliot Rowlands, Leon Levy Fellow
Independent Scholar
Northern Exposure: The Taste for Dutch and Flemish Genre Painting in Eighteenth Century France
Tanya Paul, Senior Fellow
Isabel and Alfred Bader Curator of European Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
The Center’s Spring Fellows’ Forum took place on Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Three papers were presented by the Winter/Spring 2017 Fellows:
Colleague Collectors: The Collecting Patterns of American Artists in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Diana Greenwald, Junior Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Oxford
Frans Hals Paintings in America: From ‘Naemkoopers’ to an Embarrassment of Riches
Dennis Weller, Senior Fellow
Curator of Northern European Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Discerning Languages for the Exotic Porcelain: From the Marchand-Mercier’s Nécessaires to Duveen’s Object d’art
Kyunghee Pyun, Leon Levy Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY
The Center’s Fall Fellows’ Lectures and Forum took place on Thursday, October 13, 2016. Three papers were presented by the Summer/Fall 2016 Fellows:
Nature in Place: William A. Bell, Charles Lang Freer, and the Role of Landscape Painting in the Gilded Age Collectors’ Mansion
Elizabeth Spear, Junior Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Iowa
Studies in Collecting: The Connoisseur’s Friend, Discoveries in the Drawings Collection of Count Charles Cobenzl (1712-1770) at the Hermitage
Catherine Phillips, Senior Fellow
Independent Scholar affiliated with the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Global Secessions: The Art Market at the Fin de Siècle
Jeffrey Taylor, Leon Levy Fellow
Western Colorado University
The Center’s Spring Fellows’ Lectures took place on Thursday, April 21, 2016, and Tuesday March 22, 2016. Three papers were presented by the Winter/Spring 2016 Fellows:
A Hungarian Collector, Emil Delmar Connections to Art Dealers and the Museum World in the USA (after WWII)
Andrea Rózsavölgyi, Junior Research Fellow
Associate Curator, Collection of Sculpture before 1800, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Introducing Sir William Van Horne: A Gilded Age Collector in Canada
Janet Brooke, Senior Research Fellow
Independent Scholar and Curator
The Importance of being Spitzer: on the role of provenance in the acquisitions for American museums and collections.
Paola Cordera, Leon Levy Fellow
Independent Scholar
The Center's Fall Fellows' Lecture and Forum took place on Tuesday, October 27, 2015. Three papers were presented by the Summer/Fall 2015 Fellows:
A Sanctuary of Arts: The Painting Collection of Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz (1711-1794)
Gernot Mayer, Junior Research Fellow
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Art History, University of Vienna
Reimagining the Middle Ages in Massachusetts: Hammond Castle and American Medievalism
Martha Easton, Senior Research Fellow
Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, College of Communication and the Arts, Seton Hall University
Art Dealing (and some Double Dealing): the British in Italy in the Eighteenth Century
Brendan Cassidy, Leon Levy Fellow
Professor, School of Art History, University of St Andrews
The Center's Fall Fellows' Lecture and Forum took place on Tuesday, April 7, and Monday, June 29, 2015. Three papers were presented by the Winter/Spring 2015 Fellows:
Max Ernst: (Surrealist) Collector
Kylie King, Junior Fellow
Independent Scholar, Melbourne, Australia
La Maison Goupil and the History of Collecting in America during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Agnes Penot, Senior Research Fellow
Independent Scholar, San Diego
The Frederick Mason Perkins Archive in Assisi: correspondence from important private collectors and institutions for the history of American collecting during the first half of the twentieth century
Fausto Nicolai, Leon Levy Fellow
Professor of Modern Art History, University of Cassino, Italy
The Center's Fall Fellows' Lecture and Forum took place on Wednesday, September 3, and Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Three papers were presented by the Summer/Fall 2014 Fellows:
Beyond the Havemeyers: Mary Cassatt’s Impact on New York Collections in the Gilded Age
Laura Dickey Corey, Junior Fellow
Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
A Forgotten Book of Italian Old Master Drawings: The Reconstruction of the Abrate Album and Its Collecting History
Antonella Chiodo, Senior Research Fellow
Independent Scholar, Cigliano, Vercelli, Italy
The Way Art Moves: Collecting Turner in America
Nancy J. Scott, Leon Levy Fellow
Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Mandel Center of the Humanities, Brandeis University
The Center's Spring Fellows' Lecture and Forum took place on Thursday, February 27, and Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Three papers were presented by the Winter/Spring 2014 Fellows:
Lorenz Spengler and the Tradition of Art Collecting in Denmark
Jesper Svenningsen, Junior Fellow
Ph.D. candidate, Statens Museum for Kunst
Cardinal Fesch and the Politics of Patronage in American Churches
Carole Blumenfeld, Senior Research Fellow
Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Ajaccio
Taste, Opportunity, Good Fortune: New Research on the Collections of Caroline Murat
Alba Irollo, Leon Levy Fellow
Independent Scholar
The Center's Fall Fellows' Lectures took place on Wednesday, September 25, 2013; Wednesday, October 30, 2013; and Tuesday, Janury 28, 2014. Three papers were presented by the Summer/Fall 2013 Fellows:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Art Finance: Why the Collector is More Important Than 'The Market'
Markus Stolz, Junior Research Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, Edinburgh University, School for Business and Law
The Fredrick Mason Perkins Archive in Assisi: Unpublished Letters for the History of Collecting in the United States during the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Fausto Nicolai, Senior Research Fellow
Adjunct Professor in Art History (Renaissance and Baroque), Department of Literature and Philosophy, University of Cassino and Southern Latium
William Ottley (1771-1836) as a Collector of Drawings
Marco Simone Bolzoni, Leon Levy Fellow
Independent Scholar
The Center's Spring Fellows' Forum took place on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at 4:00 pm, in The Music Room, The Frick Collection.
Three papers were presented by the Winter/Spring 2012 Fellows:
‘Portraits, Portraits Enough, in all Conscience!’: Early American domestic picture collections, c. 1780–1840
Susannah Brooke, Junior Research Fellow
Independent Scholar
Dealing with Duveen: The Hidden Hand of Mary Berenson in the Transatlantic Trade of Italian Renaissance Art
Tiffany Johnston, Senior Research Fellow
Independent Scholar
Tapestry Collectors and Dealing in Gilded Age New York
Barbara Caen, Leon Levy Fellow
Independent Scholar
The Center's Leon Levy Fellows' Forum, An Eye for Art: Sara Tyson Hallowell, took place on Thursday,
November 29, 2012, at 4:30 pm, in The Music Room, The Frick Collection.
A Pioneering Curator in Gilded Age Chicago
Carolyn Kinder Carr
National Portrait Gallery Deputy Director and Chief Curator Emerita
Monets in the Castle: Building the Palmer Collection
Kirsten M. Jensen
Independent Scholar
The Center's Fall Fellows' Forum took place on Thursday, October 18, 2012, at 4:30 pm, in The Music Room, The Frick Collection. Three papers were presented by the Fall 2012 Fellows:
Supervision: Rethinking Patronage, Collecting, and Markets in American Art History
John Ott, Senior Research Fellow
Associate Professor of Art History, James Madison University
Exotic Tastes and Eclectic Interests: American Encounters with Indian Art
Brinda Kumar, Junior Research Fellow
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University
Discovering the Women Who Collected Art at the Armory Show
Vivian Barnett, Senior Research Fellow
Independent Scholar
The Center's Spring Fellows' Forum took place on Thursday, April 26, 2012, at 4:30 pm, in The Music Room, The Frick Collection. Three papers were presented by the Winter/Spring 2012 Fellows:
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York Collector: Private Gallery to Public Museum
Margaret Laster, Leon Levy Fellow
Ph.D. candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Maiolica Comes to America: The Marketing of Renaissance Decorative Arts in the Gilded Age
Timothy Wilson, Senior Research Fellow
Keeper of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford)
Collecting Photography: Stieglitz, Camera Work, and the Institutionalization of Photography as Art
Lori Cole, Junior Research Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Center's Leon Levy Fellows' Forum took place on Thursday, February 16, 2012, 4:30–5:30 p.m., in The Music Room, The Frick Collection.
The Shopper, the Specialist & the Supplier, or, Shaw, Bode & Bardini and the Transaction of Art
Lynn Catterson, Leon Levy Fellow
Senior Fellow Departmental Representative, Art History Summer Term, Columbia University
The Center's Fellows' Forum took place on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:00 am, in The Walnut Room, The Frick Collection. Two papers were presented by the Center's Fellows:
Stefano Bardini & Supply: Archive & Artifact
Lynn Catterson
Senior Fellow Departmental Representative, Art History Summer Term, Columbia University
James Hazen Hyde and the Allegory of the Four Continents: A Research Collection for an Amateur Art Historian
Louise Arizzoli, Junior Fellow
Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University
The Center's Fellows' Forum took place on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at 3:00 pm, in The Music Room, The Frick Collection. Two papers were presented by the Center's Winter/Spring 2011 Fellows:
Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859-1920): Modern Art within an Eclectic Collection
Vivian Barnett, Leon Levy Fellow
Independent Scholar, New York
Edith Wharton's Art Collectors – From Gentlemen of Leisure to Wall Street Tycoons
Elisabetta Mezzani, Junior Fellow
Independent Scholar, Italy
The Center's Fellows' Forum took take place on Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at 4:00 pm, in The Music Room, The Frick Collection. Two papers were presented by the Center's Fall 2011 Fellows:
A Connoisseur in the Wilderness: Robert Gilmor, Jr., Prints, and Connoisseurship in Federal America
Lance Lee Humphries, Leon Levy Fellow
Independent Scholar, Baltimore
Collecting, Speculation, and Diplomacy: Colonel John Trumbull, A Federalist Art Dealer in the Age of Revolution
Matthew Fisk, Junior Research Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Center's Spring Fellows' Forum took place on Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at 4:00 pm, in The Music Room, The Frick Collection. Two papers were presented by the Center's Spring 2010 Fellows:
Case Studies on the Collecting and Display of Modern Art
Porter Aichele, Leon Levy Fellow
Professor of Art and Coordinator of Museum Studies Department of Art, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Democracy is going to be the death of art": Hugh Lane in America
Morna O’Neill, Senior Research Fellow
Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art, Wake Forest University
The Center's Fall Fellows' Forum took place on Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at 4:00 pm, in The Music Room, The Frick Collection. Two papers were presented by the Center's Fall 2009 Fellows:
"A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words": Reconstructing Robert Gilmor, Jr.'s Art Collection
Lance Lee Humphries, Leon Levy Fellow
Independent Scholar, Baltimore
Thomas Fortune Ryan: Collecting and Patronage in New York and Virginia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Stephanie Jacobe, Junior Research Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, American University, Washington, D.C.
The Center's third Fellows' Forum took place on Thursday, June 11, 2009, at 4:00 pm, in The Music Room, The Frick Collection. Three papers were presented by the Spring 2009 Fellows:
J. P. Morgan and Alexandre Imbert: Collecting Medieval Orvietan Majolica
Lucio Riccetti, Leon Levy Fellow
Università di Perugia
Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling Collection
Virginia Brilliant, Senior Research Fellow
Assistant Curator of European Art, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Education of Henry Clay Frick
Ross Finocchio, Junior Research Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Center's Fall Fellows' Forum took place on Wednesday, October 29, 2008. Two papers were presented by the Fall 2008 Fellows:
Central European Collectors and Art Collecting in America: Count János Pálffy (1829-1908) and Baron Karl Kuffner (1847-1924)
Ingrid Ciulisová, Senior Research Fellow
Institute of Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Arthur J. Sulley: Dutch Old Master Pictures and American Clients, 1893-1919
M. J. Ripps, Junior Research Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oxford
The Center's second Fellows' Forum took place on Tuesday, September 15, 2008. One paper was presented:
Alessandro Contini Bonacossi between Art and the Market (1878-1955)
Fulvia Zaninelli, Senior Research Fellow
Independent Scholar, Italy
The Center's first Fellows' Forum took place on Thursday, May 29, 2008. Two papers were presented by the Spring 2008 Fellows:
Collecting Old Master Prints: Robert Nanteuil (c. 1623-1678) and His "Amateurs" in America
Audrey Adamczak, Senior Research Fellow
Independent Art Historian, Phalempin, France
The Public and Private Collections of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1828-1887)
Margaret Laster, Junior Research Fellow
Ph.D. candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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