Louise Siddons

author of "Sharing a Journey: Building the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art Collection"

February 4, 2014

Louise Siddons is currently assistant professor of American, modern and contemporary art history in the Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History at Oklahoma State University, and faculty curator of the OSU Museum of Art. Siddons received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2005. Active nationally as an independent curator and critic, she worked as a curator and professor at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Michigan State University, and elsewhere before coming to OSU in 2009. As an art historian, Siddons has published on the history of printmaking from the 18th century to the present, focusing on the ways in which printmaking engaged with modernism and related discourses of race, gender, and national identity. Her current projects include a monograph on the Oklahoma modernist J. Jay McVicker and several articles examining artists' engagements with racial and national identity between the two World Wars.

Oklahoma State University began collecting art in the 1930s, thanks to art department head and nationally recognized printmaker Doel Reed. By the end of the 20th century, the collection included a broad representation of modern art, with a particular emphasis on works on paper. In the past few years, even more breadth has been introduced to the collection, and today it spans the history of art from the ancient world to contemporary work, and its geographical range spans the globe. This catalogue is the first document of the OSU art collection. In addition to tracing the history of art collecting and exhibitions at OSU, it introduces more than 200 works from the collection. The catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Postal Plaza Gallery from Jan. 13 through May 24, 2014.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2014-honorees/louise-siddons

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