Louise Siddons

editor of "Between Reality and Imagination: The Works of Loraine Moore"

November 4, 2015

Louise Siddons is Associate Professor of Art History at Oklahoma State University. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2005 and worked as a curator and professor at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and Michigan State University before coming to Oklahoma State in 2009. An historian of American, modern, and contemporary art history and criticism, as well as of the history of printmaking and photography, Siddons has published on topics in print and photographic history/criticism from the eighteenth century to the present. From 2010-2014, Siddons was the founding curator and co-director of the OSU Museum of Art. Although she returned to her full-time academic position upon the opening of the Postal Plaza Gallery in January of 2014, she remains active as an independent curator and critic.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, held at the Gardiner Gallery at Oklahoma State University
June 17 - August 7, 2015, and curated by graduate students in the MA program in Art History at OSU (Teresa Kilmer, Jessica Provencher, and Michelle Rinard, with contributions by Sarah Pons and Kimberly Morton). Loraine Moore (American, 1911-1988) was an art student at Oklahoma State. She studied with Doel Reed, and along with other artists of her generation, such as Dale McKinney and J. Jay McVicker, was part of an innovative art community in Oklahoma. An avid worldwide traveler who was also deeply rooted in Oklahoma City, Moore's ceaseless experimentalism is evident in her prints, drawings, and paintings. A catalogue of the first major retrospective of Moore's work, this volume is also the first significant scholarly investigation of Moore's career, drawing on hitherto unknown archival materials. The exhibition included work from the OSU Museum of Art and private lenders.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2016-honorees/louise-siddons

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