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Anne Dawson

Professor Emerita
Art and Art History
Biography

Anne Dawson is a scholar of late 19th- and early 20th-century American and European Art with a special interest in the history of painting and reception trends. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Brown University.

Research Interests
  • Impressionism
  • Gender and Art
  • History of Windham, Connecticut
Of Note

Dr. Dawson’s book, Rare Light: J. Alden Weir in Windham, Connecticut, 1882-1919 received the 2018 Ruth Emery Award from the Victorian Society of America; it was also chosen as the 2016 publication in the Driftless Connecticut Series for an outstanding book in any field on a Connecticut topic or written by a Connecticut author.

Teaching Interests
  • American Art
  • Modernism
  • Women and Art
Publications/Exhibitions

Author and Editor, Rare Light: J. Alden Weir in Windham, Connecticut, 1882-1919 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, March 2016)

Curator, A Good Summer's Work: J. Alden Weir, Connecticut Impressionist, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut, March 5 - September 11, 2016

Author, American Painters and the French Impressionists. In European Muses, American Masters, 1870-1950, 48-71. Portland, ME: Portland Museum of Art, 2004

Author and Co-Curator, Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American Painting. (San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2002); traveling loan exhibition: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California–June 29-September 15, 2002; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas– November 3, 2002- February 16, 2003

Author, The Renoir Purchased by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in 1945: A Significant Choice. Gazette des Beaux-Arts 131 (April 1998): 183-198

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