John Siewert
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Phone: 330-263-2546
Office: Ebert 115
Degrees
- B.A., University of Minnesota, 1983
- M.A., University of Michigan, 1985
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994
John Siewert holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research and publications have focused on the work of the late nineteenth-century American artist James McNeill Whistler. He is currently completing a book on Whistler’s Nocturnes, paintings of sites in London and Venice, and their pivotal role in the formation of what Professor Siewert calls a “cosmopolitan modernism.” Another current project extends his interests in artistic exchange between America and Britain with research into the intersections of postwar urbanism, gender, and domesticity in Anglo-American Pop Art of the 1950s and 1960s. He joined The College of Wooster faculty in 2000.
Courses Taught
- ARTH 102: Introduction to Art History II (Renaissance-Present)
- ARTH 204: American Art
- ARTH 214: Nineteenth-Century Art
- ARTH 216: Gender in Twentieth-Century Art
- ARTH 222: Modern Art
- ARTH 224: Architecture II
- ARTH 230: African-American Art
- ARTH 260: Art Since 1960
- ARTH 360: Contemporary Art
- ARTH 389: Theory & Applications in Art History
- ARTH 401: Junior Independent Study Seminar
Publications
- “Interior Motives: Whistler’s Studio and Symbolist Mythmaking,” in Palaces of Art: Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, forthcoming 2013)
- “Locating an Aesthetics of Place in Whistler’s London Nocturnes,” in Turner Whistler Monet (London: Tate Publishing, 2005)
- “Rhetoric and Reputation in Whistler’s Nocturnes,” in After Whistler: The Artist’s Influence in American Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003)
- “Whistler’s Decorative Darkness,” in The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996)
- Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Works on Paper from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994)
Professional Affiliations
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Fulbright Alumni Association
- College Art Association
- Midwest Art History Association
Awards
- Smithsonian Senior Fellow, Freer Gallery of Art/Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2012-13)
- Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, Scotland (1996-2006)
- Fellow, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (June 2003)
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Fellowship for Scholarship in American Art (1990-91)
- Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1988-90)
- Fulbright Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, England (1987-88)
- Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan (1987-88)