Teaching Documents by Elizabeth Nogrady
Shakespeare at Vassar, 2016
Celebrating Dante at Vassar, 2021
Crysophere: Humans and Climate in Art at the Loeb, 2022
Papers by Elizabeth Nogrady
Dimensions of Curation: Considering Competing Values for Intentional Exhibition Practices, 2023
New Perspectives on Abraham Bloemaert and his Workshop, 2022
During his long life, Abraham Bloemaert developed a career characterized by relentless forward mo... more During his long life, Abraham Bloemaert developed a career characterized by relentless forward motion in the face of political and religious upheaval, an approach that took the form of a diverse and prolific oeuvre as well as a prolonged commitment to building relationships among colleagues and patrons. As the head of a busy studio and founding member of the city’s Guild of Saint Luke, Bloemaert did not see this professional strategy as singular, but rather applicable to generations of Utrecht artists. As a result, members of his studio produced an immense variety of imagery after becoming independent masters, one that has proved challenging to link to common training. While scholarship on Bloemaert and his studio has focused largely on his interactions with the so-called Caravaggists, this text investigates a trio of artists associated with Bloemaert’s workshop in the 1630s—Nicolaes Knüpfer, Jan Baptist Weenix, and Jan Both—who collaborated on the painting Mercury Abducts Contento from the Earth (Staatliches Museum, Schwerin) in 1651, the year of both Bloemaert’s death and the initial publication of his seminal drawing book. The artists under consideration selectively adopted and adapted the models presented by Bloemaert in his drawings and drawing book into their own works, while also remaining firmly embedded in his Utrecht circle and garnering its corresponding professional benefits. Thus, while these artists were not compelled to produce works that could be confused with those of the master, they displayed adherences to Bloemaert’s art and professional philosophy, one flexible and sophisticated enough to remain vital for a multitude of artists over the course of decades.
Master Drawings, vol. 60.1, 2022
The Bloemaert effect: colour and composition in the Golden Age, 2011
Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 2012
Books and Edited Volumes by Elizabeth Nogrady
Making and Meaning features select works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar Colle... more Making and Meaning features select works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar College, located in Poughkeepsie, New York. Through illustrated essays and entries, as well as poetry and a timeline, this book reveals the profound richness of a collection that spans from antiquity to the present day.
Showcasing a wide variety of artistic works and contributions, the volume explores paintings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, and sculptures from this stunning collection. Written by Vassar curators, faculty, community partners, students, and art historians, the texts demonstrate how the art museum at Vassar originated in 1864 and now stands, like many American academic museums, at the forefront of the rapidly evolving museum field.
Interdisciplinary thinking is the essence of the liberal arts education. A question viewed throug... more Interdisciplinary thinking is the essence of the liberal arts education. A question viewed through the lens of multiple academic disciplines can yield important insights. Such collaboration among departments can be difficult to achieve, but a successful one announces itself clearly-as in the site-specific installation Universal Collection:
Edited by Elizabeth Nogrady and Lara Yeager-Crasselt. Exh. Cat., The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Cent... more Edited by Elizabeth Nogrady and Lara Yeager-Crasselt. Exh. Cat., The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. Poughkeepsie: Vassar College, 2021.
Conference Papers and Invited Lectures by Elizabeth Nogrady
Master Drawings New York, 2019
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Lecture presented on May 14, 2021, for Vassar College's Loeb Art Center
Violet Oakley (1874–1961) was a pathbreaking American artist and social activist during the first... more Violet Oakley (1874–1961) was a pathbreaking American artist and social activist during the first half of the twentieth century. Her eloquent narrative paintings, colorful stained-glass designs, and otherworldly book illustrations conveyed morally uplifting messages for audiences in New York, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere in the United States. Between 1922 and 1924, Oakley executed a monumental, Gothic-revival painting called The Great Wonder: A Vision of the Apocalypse for the living room of Vassar College’s newly built Alumnae House. The artist also designed and furnished the living room in a hybrid medieval and Renaissance style, creating a peaceful yet visually stimulating environment which the Vassar community and visitors enjoy to this day.
Drawing on the rich holdings of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Vassar’s Special Collections Library, this exhibition features drawings, watercolors, illustrated books, and other objects that illuminate Violet Oakley’s original decorative scheme for Alumnae House. These artworks reveal how the painter developed the dynamic composition of The Great Wonder and designed even the most intricate details of its architectural setting. Oakley’s talent for creating a total artistic environment is evident not only in this undertaking – her only surviving interior-design project – but also in the elaborate medieval pageant she orchestrated for the dedication of Alumnae House in June 1924. Considered alongside The Great Wonder and the Alumnae House living room, the objects on display attest to Oakley’s creativity and dedication to inspiring others through highly original visual means.
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Teaching Documents by Elizabeth Nogrady
Papers by Elizabeth Nogrady
Books and Edited Volumes by Elizabeth Nogrady
Showcasing a wide variety of artistic works and contributions, the volume explores paintings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, and sculptures from this stunning collection. Written by Vassar curators, faculty, community partners, students, and art historians, the texts demonstrate how the art museum at Vassar originated in 1864 and now stands, like many American academic museums, at the forefront of the rapidly evolving museum field.
Conference Papers and Invited Lectures by Elizabeth Nogrady
Drawing on the rich holdings of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Vassar’s Special Collections Library, this exhibition features drawings, watercolors, illustrated books, and other objects that illuminate Violet Oakley’s original decorative scheme for Alumnae House. These artworks reveal how the painter developed the dynamic composition of The Great Wonder and designed even the most intricate details of its architectural setting. Oakley’s talent for creating a total artistic environment is evident not only in this undertaking – her only surviving interior-design project – but also in the elaborate medieval pageant she orchestrated for the dedication of Alumnae House in June 1924. Considered alongside The Great Wonder and the Alumnae House living room, the objects on display attest to Oakley’s creativity and dedication to inspiring others through highly original visual means.
Showcasing a wide variety of artistic works and contributions, the volume explores paintings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, and sculptures from this stunning collection. Written by Vassar curators, faculty, community partners, students, and art historians, the texts demonstrate how the art museum at Vassar originated in 1864 and now stands, like many American academic museums, at the forefront of the rapidly evolving museum field.
Drawing on the rich holdings of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Vassar’s Special Collections Library, this exhibition features drawings, watercolors, illustrated books, and other objects that illuminate Violet Oakley’s original decorative scheme for Alumnae House. These artworks reveal how the painter developed the dynamic composition of The Great Wonder and designed even the most intricate details of its architectural setting. Oakley’s talent for creating a total artistic environment is evident not only in this undertaking – her only surviving interior-design project – but also in the elaborate medieval pageant she orchestrated for the dedication of Alumnae House in June 1924. Considered alongside The Great Wonder and the Alumnae House living room, the objects on display attest to Oakley’s creativity and dedication to inspiring others through highly original visual means.