SOUTHWEST

ART HISTORY CONFERENCE

XXXII

Front Cover: Above:

Philip Latimer Dike (1906-1990)
Copper (detail), 1936, oil on canvas
38 3/16 x 46 1/4”
Phoenix Art Museum, Museum Purchase with
funds provided by
Western Art Associates (1978.10)
Lew Davis (1910-1979)
Little Boy Lives in a Copper Camp, 1939
oil on Masonite, 29 ½ x 24 ½”
Phoenix Art Museum,
Gift of IBM Corporation (1961.73)

TAOS, NEW MEXICO

PO Box 1891 • Santa Fe, NM 87504
OCTOBER 6–8, 2021
SOUTHWEST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE XXXII
6–8 OCTOBER 2021 • TAOS, NEW MEXICO
Wednesday, October 6
6:00 PM • Annual Anti-Social
Mabel Dodge Luhan House
Thursday, October 7
9:15 AM • OPENING REMARKS
Ellen Zieselman, SWAHC Treasurer and
Independent Scholar, Santa Fe, NM
9:30 AM • SESSION I
High Desert Laboratory
MODERATOR: Marie Watkins, Professor Emerita,
Furman University, Greenville, SC
“Spring in Abiquiú: New Life for O’Keeffe,”
Katherine Boles, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM
“Another Desert Laboratory: O’Keeffe in Cold
War Northern New Mexico,” Sarah Rovang,
Independent Scholar, Santa Fe, NM
“Chuzo Tamotzu: A Japanese American
Modernist in Santa Fe,” Anne Collins
Goodyear, Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
Brunswick, ME
“Ansel Adams vs. Max Ernst: Photography, Art,
and the Contest for the American West,”
James Swensen, Brigham Young University,
Provo, UT
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
dars:
Mark your calen
-7 Oct. 2022
SWAHC XXXIII: 5 Oct. 2023
-6
SWAHC XXXIV: 4
2:30 PM • SESSION II
It’s All About Place
MODERATOR: Teresa Ebie, Independent Scholar,
Taos, NM
“Decolonizing the ‘Mormon Pioneer’: Cyrus
Dallin’s Brigham Young Monument,” Nathan K.
Rees, University of West Georgia, Carrollton,
GA
“Robert Henri’s La Jolla Portraits of Chinese
Americans,” Brittany Emens Strupp, Temple
University, Philadelphia, PA
“Other(ed) Oklahomans: Reasserting Native
Americans in New Deal Dustbowl
Photography,” Jason Weems, University of
California Riverside, Riverside, CA
“A Re-Moveable Fiesta: Gerald Cassidy’s Santa
Fe Fiesta Posters, 1922,” Hadley Jerman, Fred
Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of
Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Reception: 5:30 to 6:30 PM: Joseph Henry Sharp Garden (behind the Lunder Research
Center), 146 Kit Carson Road, at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site, located at the end of
Morada Lane, just up from the Mabel Dodge Luhan House.
To register, make checks out to “SWAHC” and mail to:
Southwest Art History Conference, Box
1891, Santa Fe, NM 87504
Advance conference Name
registration: $80
At-the-door registration: $85
One day rate: $45 Address
Please include your mailing ad-
dress and phone number and/or e-
mail address. City/State
You can register online by credit card at: https://www.southwestarthistory.org
Friday, October 8
9:30 AM • SESSION III
Sovereign Territory
MODERATOR: Amy Scott, Vice President of
Research and Interpretation, Autry Museum of
the American West, Los Angeles, CA
“Sovereign Territory: The Life and Work of Gerald
Clarke,” Christine Giles, Palm Springs Art
Museum, Palm Springs, CA
“Indian Wisdom: The Irreverent Gerald Clarke,”
Ashley Holland (Cherokee), Art Bridges
Foundation, Bentonville AR
“Homegrown: Art and Practice,” Gerald Clarke,
University of California, Riverside, CA
“Countering Romance: Contemporary Native
American Photography in the Southwest,”
Jessica Orzulak, Duke University, Durham, NC
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
Phone and or e-mail
Zip
2:30 PM • SESSION IV
Mining, Agribusiness, and Dams
MODERATOR: Ellen Zieselman,
SWAHC Treasurer and Independent
Scholar, Santa Fe, NM
“Landscapes of Extraction: The Art of the
Copper Sublime,” Betsy Fahlman, Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ
“Elsie Lower Pomeroy’s Southern California
Citrus Series,” Lauren Freese, University of
South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
“Hoover Dam: Evolving American Icon,” James
K. Ballinger, Director Emeritus, Phoenix Art
Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Sessions take place at
The Mabel Dodge Luhan House
240 Morada Lane, Taos, NM
18 guest rooms available ($116-$275)
1-800-846-2235 or 575-751-9686
Reserve a room by October, 1 2021.
When reserving mention the SWAHC
conference (there is no special conference
rate, but they do block
out rooms for us).
For further information
(including other places to
stay in Taos) or to receive the
program in a PDF format,
please contact Betsy
Fahlman at Arizona State
University via e-mail
(fahlman@asu.edu) or phone
(480-620-8618).