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Pamela M. Fletcher
Associate Professor of Art History, Director of Art History
Spring 2008
- Picasso and Matisse (ARTH 012)
- Modern Art (ARTH 252)
| Phone | (207) 798-7158 |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Department | ART |
| 2nd Title | Program Director of Art History |
| 2nd Department | ART |
| Work Location | 209 Visual Arts Center |
| pfletche@bowdoin.edu |
Education
Columbia University, Ph.D., 1998
Columbia University, Certificate in Feminist Theory, 1994
Bowdoin College, A.B., 1989
Research Interests:
Victorian and Edwardian Art, Modernism, The History of the Commercial Art Gallery, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Art, The Problem Picture.
Publications
Book
Narrating Modernity: The British Problem Picture, 1895-1914 (Ashgate, 2003).
Articles and Chapters
"Virtue, Vice, Sex, and Gossip: Narratives of Gender in Late Victorian and Edwardian Painting," Remapping British Art and Architecture Editors Dana Arnold, David Peters Corbett, and Matthew Johnson. Commissioned for Blackwell; forthcoming.
"Creating the French Gallery: Ernest Gambart and the Rise of the Commercial Art Gallery in Mid-Victorian London," Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Volume 6, no. 1 (Spring 2007).
"Consuming Modern Art: Metaphors of Gender, Commerce and Value in Late Victorian and Edwardian Art Criticism." Visual Culture in Britain, Volume 6 Issue 2, Winter 2005, pp 157-170.
Abstract »
"Masculinity, Money, and Modern Art: The Sentence of Death by John Collier." English Art, 1860-1914: Modern Artists and Identity. Eds. David Peters Corbett and Lara Perry (Manchester University Press, 2000).
Exhibitions, Encyclopedia Entries and Reviews
"Edward Mitchell Bannister," in African American Lives. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. (Oxford University Press, 2004).
"Painting, Genres of," in The Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era. Editor James Eli Adams. (Grolier Academic Press, 2004).
"Painting," and "The Politics of Representation," in The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women. Editors Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. (Routledge, 2000.)
"Illustration" and 15 catalogue entries in The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print: Etching, Illustration, Reproductive Engraving, and Photography in England in and around the 1860s. 
Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 1995.
"The Victorians," exhibition review, Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art Newsletter, 4/1 (April 1997).
Recent Papers and Conferences
Chair, "A Nation of Shopkeepers: Innovation and the Art Market in Great Britain," College Art Association, New York, February 2007.
"Shopping for Art: Commercial Art Galleries and Their Publics 1870-1914," The Rise of the London Art Market. Tate Britain, London, February 2007.
"Apologia Pro Arte Mea: A Critic's Perspective on the Art Market and the Press," Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, New York, 2006.
"Artistic Circulation: The Social Lives of Victorian Paintings", North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference, September 2006.
"Cosmopolitan Connoisseurs: The Commercial Art Gallery and Its Publics," Internationalism and the Arts: Cultural Exchange between Britain and Europe at the Fin de Siecle, Magdalene College, Cambridge University, July 2006.
"Cocaine Addicts and Bolsheviks: Gossip and Topicality in British Narrative Painting," College Art Association, Boston, February 2006.
"The Social Practice of Victorian Art," commentator for the panel "New Market/New Economies: Art and Design Discourses c. 1840-1890," North American Conference on British Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2004
"Consuming Modern Art: Metaphors of Gender, Commerce, and Value in Late Victorian and Edwardian Art Criticism." Visual Culture and Taste in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Centre for Visual Culture in Britain, University of Northumbria, July 2004
" 'Let me be your banker': The Rise of the Commercial Art Gallery in Mid-Victorian London," North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, October 2003.
"Art, Commerce, and the Nation: Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery." College Art Association, New York, February 2003.
"Queen Victoria's Indian Subjects: Rudolph Swoboda's Indian Portraits at Osborne House." Women Art Patrons and Collectors, New York Public Library, New York, March 1999.
"The Fallen Woman and the New Woman: The Prodigal Daughter by John Collier." College Art Association, Los Angeles, February 1999.
Links
Summer Research at Bowdoin: Mapping the Emergence of the Modern Art Gallery
Campus News: Gibbons Interns Tackle Interdisciplinary Projects With the Help of Technology
Academic Spotlight: "The British Problem Picture"
Teaching
Professor Fletcher teaches courses on subjects ranging from Victorian to Contemporary Art, with a particular emphasis on questions of modernism and gender. She has offered advanced seminars on Modernism and the Nude, The Body in Contemporary Art, and Picasso and Matisse.
Classes often take advantage of the rich holdings of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, in particular their collections of Victorian photography , modernist works on paper and contemporary art.
Fellowships and Awards
Student Immersion / Faculty Focus GIS Workshop National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), 2005
Research Support Grant, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2004
Coca-Cola Grant for Gender and Women's Studies Scholarship, The Ohio State University, 2000-01
Chester Dale Fellowship, National Gallery of Art (CASVA), 1995-96
President's Fellowship, Columbia University, 1992-97
Teaching appointments
Bowdoin College, Assistant Professor of Art History, 2001-present.
The Ohio State University, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, 1998-2001.
The Ohio State University, Affiliated Assistant Professor of Art History, 1999-2001.
Recent Exhibitions Curated at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art:
"Modernism and the Nude" Fall 2001.
Image Credits:
Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973
Still Life with Woman with Guitar (Nature Morte and Woman with a Guitar), 1921
gouache on paper
Bequest of William H. Alexander, in memory of his friend, Howard Hoyt Shiras, M.D.
2003.11.61 Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Julia Margaret Cameron
British, 1815-1879
Portrait of Maud. 1870-1872
vintage albumen print from glass plate negative
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.