Distinguished Lecturers Of The Lillian And Morrie Moss Endowment For The Visual Arts And James F. Ruffin Lecture Series
All lecturers appeared courtesy of the Moss Endowment for the Visual Arts, except those noted as Ruffin Lecturers.
1985-86
Robert Hughes - Art Critic, TIME Magazine
Robert Stern - Director of Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
John B. Jackson - Former Harvard and University of California, Berkeley professor, founder of Studies in History of the American landscape
Patricia Hills - Professor of Art History, Boston University, adjunct Curator of Whitney Museum of American Art
Jessie Poesch - Professor of American Art, Tulane University
1986-87
Peter Draper - Lecturer in the History of Art at Birbeck College, London
William L. MacDonald - Architectural Historian
John Wilmerding - Deputy Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Thomas Garnet Henry James - Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum
Cornelius Vermeule, III - Curator of Classical Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1987-88
Fabrizio Mancinelli - Director of Restoration for the Sistine Chapel, The Vatican
Vincent Scully - Professor of Art History, Yale University
E. J. Johnson - Professor of Art History, Williams College
1988-89
Franklin Kelly - Curator, American Art, National Gallery of Art
William H. Gerdts - Director, Graduate Program in Art History, City University of New York
Grace Glueck - Art News Editor, The New York Times
1989-90
Sherman E. Lee - Director Emeritus, the Cleveland Museum of Art, adjunct Professor of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ralph Lieberman - Visiting Lecturer, Williams College
Thomas Armstrong, III - Whitney Museum of Art
Senator Claiborne Pell - U. S. Senator, Rhode Island, principal sponsor of the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities
1990-91
Gerald Norland - Former Director, Washington Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Milwaukee Art Museum
Leo Steinberg - Benjamin Franklin Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
E. J. Johnson - Professor of Art History, Williams College
1991-92
Irving Lavin - Professor of Art History, The Institute for Advanced Study
Walter Denny - Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts
Michael Fried - Professor of Humanities and the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University
1992-93
Linda Nochlin - Robert Lehman Professor of Art History, Yale University
Wanda Corn - The Anthony Meier Family Professor of Art History, Stanford University
Keith Christiansen - Jayne Wrightsman Curator, European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1993-94
Donald Kuspit - Professor of Art History and Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Richard Wattenmaker - Director, Archives of American Art, The Smithsonian Institution
Robert Storr - Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art
1994-95
Anne Wagner - Chair, Department of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Faith Ringgold - Artist, author, Professor of Art, University of California, San Diego
1995-96
Peter Saul - Painter and professor, University of Texas
Kathleen Brandt - Professor of Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Consultant for Renaissance Art, The Vatican Museums
1996-97
Janine Antoni - Conceptual artist
Mel Chin - Sculptor, conceptual and installation artist
1997-98
Ann Gibson - Professor of Art, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Fred Wilson - Installation Artist
1998-99
Malcolm Warner - Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art
Paul Crossley - Professor of Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Joan Crossley - Professor of Art History, University of Leicester
Marvin Trachtenberg - Professor of Art and Architectural History, New York University Institute of Fine Art
1999-2000
Paul Goldberger - Architecture Critic, The New Yorker
James Elkins - Artist, Art Critic, Art Historian, Art Institute of Chicago
2000-2001
Harold Cohen - Artist, Senior Research Professor, University of California at San Diego
Caroline Jones - Art Historian, Boston University
Gary Radke – Professor of Art History, Syracuse University
2001-2002
Bruce Boucher - Professor of the History of Art, University College, University of London
2002-2003
Nikki Lee – Photograher, New York City
Patricia Leighton and Mark Antliff – Professors of Art History, Duke University
John R. Clarke (Ruffin Lecturer) – Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor of Art History at the University of Texas, Austin
2003-2004
Romanino Symposium (with Memphis Brooks Museum of Art)
Participants:
- Victor Coonin, Art Historian, Rhodes College
- Scott Montgomery, Art Historian, University of Denver
- Gary Radke, Art Historian, Syracuse University
- Cynthia Stollhans, Art Historian, St. Louis University
- Gina Strumwasser, Art Historian, California Sate University, Fresno
- Alessandro Nova, Art Historian, Goethe Institute, Frankfurt
Elizabeth McGowan (Ruffin Lecturer) – Associate Professor of Art, Williams College
2004-2005
Harell Fletcher/Learning to Love You More – Artists Collaborative, New York City
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Ruffin Lecturer) – Director of the British School at Rome and Professor of Classics, Reading University
2005-2006
Wendy Edwards and Jerry Mishack - Painter and Art Professor, Brown University and Sculptor and Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design
Dennis Congdon – Painter, Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design
Eve D’Ambra (Ruffin Lecturer) – Chair, Art Department, Vassar College
2006-2007
Bruce Cole – Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Henry Luttikhuizen – Professor of Art History, Calvin College
Eleanor Winsor Leach (Ruffin Lecturer) – Ruth N. Hall Professor of Classical Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington
2007-2008
Laura Splan – Mixed Media Artist, New York City
James Yood – Art Critic/Historian, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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