Art History Professor Invited to Speak at National Gallery of Art Symposium

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Andrew Wyeth, Wind from the Sea, 1947, tempera on hardboard, National Gallery of Art, Gift of Charles H. Morgan, 2009. © Andrew Wyeth

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Leo Mazow, associate professor of art history in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, will present a lecture at the National Gallery of Art, Friday, Oct. 17, as part of the gallery’s “Andrew Wyeth in Context: Contemporary Art and Scholarship” symposium.

The symposium complements the exhibition, Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In, which is on display until Sunday, Nov. 30. Wyeth is an American painter who often turned to the subject of windows. Mazow’s lecture, “Hopper’s Hotels: Windows, Walls, and Other Prospects,” focuses on another 20th century American artist, Edward Hopper. The lecture is derived from a chapter of Mazow's current book project, tentatively titled Hopper’s Hotels.

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., organized the symposium in conjunction with the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The meeting is also a part of the Seventh Biennial Wyeth Foundation for American Art Conference.

Mazow joined the University of Arkansas faculty in 2010 after eight years as curator of American art at the Palmer Museum of Art at  Pennsylvania State University. He has published articles on Regionalism, New York Dada and American landscape painting in Art Bulletin, American Art and Winterthur Portfolio. He often organizes exhibitions to accompany publications. Such joint ventures include Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art; Picturing the Banjo; Arneson and the Object; and Shallow Creek: Thomas Hart Benton and American Waterways.

Mazow recently lectured on communication imagery in American art at the Musée du Louvre in Feb. 2013, presented the annual Eldrege Prize lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Sept. 2014 and will speak at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2015.