Please join us on Wednesday, November 17, at 7PM ET for Art of the Americas: Global Perspectives, the November Virtual Salon co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. This online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at https://tinyurl.com/americas19.
For this event, we are fortunate to host three specialists who will discuss this increasingly important area of nineteenth-century studies: Asiel Sepúlveda (Moderator), Katherine Manthorne, and Emmanuel Ortega. Their discussion will be followed by a Q&A and then a break-out room where attendees can socialize informally.
Asiel Sepúlveda is Assistant Professor of Art History at Simmons University. His research focuses on print culture in the nineteenth-century Caribbean. In 2015, he received the Dahesh Museum of Art Prize for the Best Paper at the 12th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art, subsequently published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2015) as “Humor and Social Hygiene in Havana’s Nineteenth-Century Cigarette Marquillas.” He is currently editing a book-length project entitled “Havana Impressions: Print Culture and Global Modernity in Plantation Cuba (1790–1860),” which explores the urban imagery of the Cuban plantation system through the lens of print studies and global art histories.
Katherine Manthorne, a specialist in modern art of the Americas, is Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; prior to that, she was the Director of the Research Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her scholarship has long focused on the landscape and hemispheric dimensions of American art, beginning with Tropical Renaissance: North American Artists Exploring Latin America, 1839–1879 (1989) and continuing in California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820 to 1930 (2017) and Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (2015). Women artists are featured in two recent books: Women in the Dark: American Female Photographers 1850–1900 (2020) and Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex (2020).
Emmanuel Ortega is the Marilynn Thoma Scholar in Art of the Spanish Americas, and an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He specializes in the topic of sentimentality as it pertains to nineteenth-century Mexico, and Novohispanic Franciscan portraiture. His essay “The Mexican Picturesque and the Sentimental Nation: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Landscape” was published in the Art Bulletin (June 2021). He is co-producer of the YouTube channel Unsettling Journeys and a recurrent lecturer for the Arquetopia Foundation for Development, the largest artist residency in México.