Louise Siddons

Co-Author of "Authenticity in North America: Place, Tourism, Heritage, Culture and the Popular Imagination"

December 12, 2019

Louise Siddons (Ph.D., Stanford University), associate professor of art history at Oklahoma State University, teaches courses in American and Native American visual and material culture, as well as the history of printmaking and photography. She has published on topics from the eighteenth century to the present and is active as an independent curator and critic. From 2002 to 2007, Siddons was a curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She has also taught at San Francisco State and Michigan State University. Siddons joined the faculty at Oklahoma State in 2009. From 2009 to 2014, in addition to her faculty position, she was the founding curator and co-director of the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art. Her most recent monograph is "Centering Modernism: J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). Siddons’s research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Oklahoma Humanities Council and more. Her current projects include a book about photographer Laura Gilpin, midcentury Navajo politics and article-length studies of Native visual sovereignty in the civil rights era.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2020-honorees/louise-siddons

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