The Virtual Salon, cosponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art and the Dahesh Museum of Art, will feature Nancy Karrels and Christine Olson on Wednesday, July 14, at 7PM. Ms. Karrels and Ms. Olson were the joint recipients of the Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize at the seventeenth AHNCA/Dahesh Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art (2020) that took place in March 2021. They will represent their papers and discuss their work and future plans.

Nancy Karrels’s presentation is entitled “Documenting Plunder: The Dessins Denon as a Vision of Museum-Building in the Modern Era.” It is part of her doctoral dissertation “Visual Provenance: The Iconography of Cultural Conquest in France, 1796–1830,” in progress at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She curated the 2017 exhibition “Provenance: A Forensic History of Art” at the Krannert Art Museum and has published articles and given papers internationally on the history of collecting. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Doctoral Award (France) and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship. She holds degrees in Common Law and Civil Law from McGill University.

Christine Olson’s presentation is entitled “The Grammar of Ornament and the Design of Nineteenth-Century Design.” It is part of her doctoral dissertation “Owen Jones and the Epistemologies of Nineteenth-Century Design,” in progress at Yale University. She is a former Tiffany and Company Curatorial Intern in American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where her research culminated in a co-authored article in the Metropolitan Museum Journal (2016) on design drawings for Tiffany Mosaics. She holds an MA in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University, where she also completed an Advanced Certificate in Museum Studies, and a BA in Religion from Oberlin College.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please register through the following link: https://tinyurl.com/daheshredux