Please join us on Thursday, October 20 at 7PM for “(Re)Presenting the 19th Century,” a Virtual Salon organized by AHNCA’s Emerging Scholars Working Group for the 2022–2023 season. This series of online events is cosponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. “(Re)Presenting the 19th Century” will feature Iris Moon (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Emerson Bowyer (Art Institute of Chicago), and Thomas Busciglio-Ritter (Joslyn Art Museum) in conversation about their respective progress on reinstalling their institutions’ 19th-century galleries. Speakers will address various approaches and strategies for representing 19th-century collections for contemporary audiences. The panel will be moderated by Theresa A. Cunningham, Assistant Curator at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required at https://tinyurl.com/representing19.
Iris Moon, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Iris Moon is Assistant Curator in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her research on European decorative arts and architecture has been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre, the Decorative Arts Trust, the Clark Art Institute, and the Getty Research Institute. Alongside curatorial work at The Met, where she recently participated in the reinstallation of the British Galleries, she teaches at The Cooper Union. She is the author of Luxury after the Terror (2022) and Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France (2016), and co-editor with Richard Taws of Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France (2021). A new book on Wedgwood is forthcoming with MIT Press (2023).
Emerson Bowyer, The Art Institute of Chicago
Emerson Bowyer is Searle Curator, Painting and Sculpture of Europe, at the Art Institute of Chicago. A specialist in 18th- and 19th-century French and British art, he has previously worked at the Frick Collection, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His exhibitions include David d’Angers: Making the Modern Monument (Frick Collection, 2013), Luminous Worlds: British Works on Paper 1760–1900 (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), and Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (Met Breuer, 2018), for which he was co-curator. Emerson is currently working on two exhibitions, on Antonio Canova’s clay sketches and the sculpture of Camille Claudel.
Thomas Busciglio-Ritter, Joslyn Art Museum
Thomas Busciglio-Ritter is Richard and Mary Holland Assistant Curator of American Western Art and a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Delaware. His research examines the visual culture of landscape, American race relations, and tourism, as well as transatlantic circulations during the nineteenth century. A native of France, Busciglio-Ritter holds Master’s degrees in history and art history from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and the École du Louvre. His research has been published in scholarly journals such as the Revue de l’Art, Athanor, and Panorama. He has previously worked on curatorial projects at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.