Vivien Green Fryd

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Home and Summer Address:               

1715 Beechwood Avenue

 Nashville, Tennesee 37212

Home Telephone:                                
615-292-0174

Office Address:                                    

Department of Fine Arts

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN  37235

615-322-0068

E-Mail:                                                 

vivien.g.fryd@vanderbilt.edu

EDUCATION:

B.A. 1974 Ohio State University

M.A. 1977  Ohio State University, "Romaine Brooks: La Femme Qui Voit Sa

     Mort."

Ph.D. 1984, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Sculpture as History:  Themes

     of  Liberty, Unity, and Manifest Destiny in American Sculpture, 1825-1865."

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:

Instructor, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, Summer (1978).

Assistant to the Associate Dean, University of Wisconsin-Madison, College

     of Letters and Science Student Academic Affairs, Madison,

     Wisconsin (1981-1984).

Visiting Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, Tucson, Arizona (1984-1985).

Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (1985-1992).

Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (1992-2003).

Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (2003-present).

AUTHORED BOOKS:

Art and Empire:  The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1860 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992; reprint in paperback, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000).  278pp. and 273 pp.

Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). 265 pp.

BOOK CHAPTERS :

"The Italian Presence in the United States Capitol." In The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860, edited by Irma Jaffe, 132-149 (New York and Rome:  The Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana and Fordham University, 1989).

"Political Compromise in Public Art:  Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom." In Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context and Controversy, edited by Harriet Senie and Sally Webster, 105-114 (New York:  Harper/Collins, 1992; 105-114, 2nd edition, “Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998).     

"Two U.S. Capitol Statues: Horatio Greenough's Rescue and Luigi Persico's Discovery of America, Critical Issues in American Art, edited by Mary Ann Calo, 93-108 (New York, Harper Collins, 1997).  Originally published in The American Art Journal 19 (1987), 16-39.        

"The Sad Twang of Mountain Voices": Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of Country Music," in Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars, edited by Cecelia Tichi, 256-285, (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998). Originally published in South Atlantic Quarterly 94 (Winter 1995): 301-335.

"Imaging the Indians in the United States Capitol During the Early Republic." In Native Americans and the Early Republic, ed. Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert, 297-330, (University of Virginia Press, 1999).  

 “Masking Slavery in and on the U.S. Capitol Rotunda,” American Pantheon: The Art and Architecture of the Capitol Rotunda , 152-167; 279-337; 336-337 (Athens: Ohio University Press, forthcoming.)

“Modern Emblematic Portraits: The Interplay of Word and Image.” In Words and Pictures: An Inevitable Knowledge, ed. Ellen Spolsky . (Bucknell University Press;  forthcoming early 2004).

ARTICLES:

"Hiram Powers's Greek Slave: Emblem of Freedom," The American Art Journal 14 (Autumn,1982), 31-39.

"Randolph Rogers' Indian Hunter Boy: Allegory of Innocence," Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin 1984-1985, (1986), 29-37.

"Hiram Powers's America: "Triumphant as Liberty and in Unity," The American Art Journal 17 (1986), 54-75.

"Horatio Greenough's George Washington: The Apotheosis of a President," The Augustan Age, occasional papers 1 (1987), 70-86; 96 on.

"Hiram Powers's Bust of George Washington:  The President as an Icon," Phoebus: A Journal of Art History 5 (1987), 14-27; 125-129.

"Two U.S. Capitol Statues: Horatio Greenough's Rescue and Luigi Persico's Discovery of America, The American Art Journal 19 (1987), 16-39.  Republished in  Critical Issues in American Art, edited by Mary Ann Calo, 93-108 (New York, Harper Collins, 1997).                         

"The Object in the Age of Theory," American Art 8 (Spring 1994): 2-5.

"The Politics of Public Art:  Art in the United States Capitol," The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society 23 (Winter 1994): 327-340.

"The Sad Twang of Mountain Voices": Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of Country Music," South Atlantic Quarterly 94 (Winter 1995): 301-335. Reprinted in Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars, edited by Cecelia Tichi, 256-285, (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998).

"Rereading the Indian in Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe," American Art 9 (Spring 1995): 73-85.

“Shifting Power Relations: Edward Hopper’s Girlie Show, American Art 14 (Summer 2000): 52-75.

“Georgia O’Keeffe’s Radiator Building: Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Imagery,” Winterthur Portfolio 35 (Winter 2001): 269-289.

“Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: A Marriage in Crisis, 1927-1933.” In Amor y Desamor en las Artes, edited by Arnulfo Herra Curiel, pp. 67-81. XXII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte. Mexico 2001.

“Edward Hopper and the Marriage-in-Crisis Debates During the Interwar Years,” INTAMS Review (Brussels—forthcoming).

REVIEWS, ENCYCLOPEDIC ENTRIES, AND CATALOGUE ENTRIES

Lillian B. Miller's In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860 in Journal of the Early Republic. (Fall 1993): 431-2.

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914 in Annali d'Italianistica vol. 14, edited by Luigi Monga (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,1996):700-702.

“Luigi Persico." In American National Biography, edited by John A.Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, vol. 17, pp. 380-381 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Sally M. Promey. Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent’s Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), in The Winterthur Portfolio 35 (Spring 2000): 103-105.

“Sculpture.” In The Oxford Companion to United States History, edited by Paul Boyer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), PP. 694-695.

Richard H. Saunders. Horatio Greenough: An American Sculptor’s Drawings.(Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1999), in the Historians of Nineteenth- Century Art Newsletter 8 , no. 2 (Fall 2001): 29.

Catalogue entries for Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, Thomas Hart Benton, Isabel Bishop, Hiram Powers, and Chauncy B. Ives). An Enduring Legacy: Art of the Americas from Nashville Collections (Nashville: Frist Center for the Visual Arts 2001), pp. 32, 51, 76, 78-9, 90-1.

Sybil Gordan Kantor. H. Barr Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art for American Studies 43:3 (Fall 2002):135-6.

Kirsten Swinth. Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930 and Laura R. Prieto. At Home In the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America for the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Rape: Imaging and Imagining Sexual Violence in American Art and Culture

GRANTS RECEIVED:

Vanderbilt University Research Council Direct Support Grant, 1986

Smithsonian Short Term Visitor Grant, 1987

Capitol Historical Society Fellowship, 1987

Vanderbilt University Research Council Fellowship, academic year 1988-89

American Council of Learned Society Grant-in-Aid, 1989

Keenan-Venture Fund, Vanderbilt University, 1990

Vanderbilt Subvention Fund, 1991

Fellow Faculty and Co-Director, "Transatlantic Voyages:  Discovery of the New World and the Old," The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, academic year 1991-1992.

Faculty Fellow, "American Studies," The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities year-long fellows program, 1993-1994.

Keenan-Venture Fund 1994-1995

Vanderbilt University Research Council Direct Support Grant, 1997

Vanderbilt University Research Council Fellowship, academic year 1998

Society for the Preservation of American Modernists Grant. For Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper, May 2001.

Vanderbilt University Central Research Scholar Grant for Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper, April 2001.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Inducted in the Toms River Hall of Fame, Toms River, New Jersey, May 1996.

The Alumni Education Award, Vanderbilt University Alumni Association, March 2002.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Constance O'Rourke Prize Committee, American Studies Association, 1992.

Program Committee of the American Studies Association, 1994.

John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee, American Studies Association, 1994.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS:

"Samuel F. B. Morse's The House of Representatives: Democracy Triumphant?"  Paper presented at a symposium entitled, "Samuel F. B. Morse, Artist, Idealist, Teacher, Friend," Tucson Museum of Art, April, 1985.

"The Italian Presence in the United States Capitol," Paper presented at the symposium, "Insight and Inspiration: The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860," sponsored by The Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana and Fordham University, November, 1987.

"The Frontier Myth:  Art and Iconography of the United States Capitol, 1820-1860," Paper presented at the University of Delaware American Art Symposium Decorating Our Nation:  Art and Architecture in the Public Eye," April, 1989.

"History and Myth:  Randolph Rogers's Columbus Bronze Doors," Symposium on the Art and Architecture of the Capitol sponsored by the United States Capitol Historical Society, Washington, D. C., March, 1990.

"Imaging the Indians in the U. S. Capitol during the Early Republic," in "Native Americans in the Early Republic" sponsored by the United States Capitol Historical Society, Newberry Library, and the United States Congress, March, 1992.             

"Images of National Identity: American and Liberty in the United States Capitol, for "Images and Symbols of America," Japan-United States Collaborative Research Project, sponsored by the Japanese Association of American Studies and the Association of American Studies, Kyoto, Japan, April 1993.

"Race, Class, and Gender in the Art in the United States Capitol," History Department, Smith College, April      1994.

Representing Homespun Country for Middle Class Americans: Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of Country Music," "Representing the Middle Class," Sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the International Research and Exchange Board in Washington, D. C., Budapest, June 1994.

"Public Monuments: Public Sites of Controversy," "The Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant," sponsored by Columbia University's Department of History, National Park Service, Organization of American Historians," Columbia University, April, 1995.

 “Georgia O'Keeffe's Masculinist Strategy in the Radiator Building," Ohio State University, May 1997.

”The Dynamics of Control: Edward Hopper’s Images of the Female Nude,” “Iconotropisms,” Bar-Ilan  University, Ramat Gan, Israel, March 1998.

“Gertrude Stein, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the Abstract Portrait,” Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, March, 1998.

“The Nashville Battle Monument: Symbol of National Reconciliation,” For the “Battle Monument Symposium,” Sponsored by the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, David Libscomb University, Nashville, November 1998.

“Masking Slavery in and on the U. S. Capitol Rotunda,” U.S. Capitol Historical Society, September 1999.

”From the Civil War to the War with Nature: Winslow Homer,” in conjunction with the exhibition, “Winslow Homer: An American Genius,” at the Parthenon, Nashville, July 2000.

“Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” The Parthenon, Nashville, January 2002.

“The Indian Removal Policy Figured in the U.S. Capitol Decorations,” The Hermitage, Nashville, April 2002.

“Critical Engagement: Artistic Practice in Post Modern Times,” in “Postmodernism: Three Perspectives,” The Frist Center of Visual Arts. Nashville, April 2002.

“Andy Warhol: Pop Art and Pop Icon,” in conjunction with the closing of the exhibit ICON: Andy Warhol at the Parthenon,” The Parthenon Art Museum, January 4, 2003.

“Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe,” Chicago Art Institute March/April Potpourri Lecture/Booksigning, March 20, 2003.

“Georgia O’Keeffe,” Keynote address, Kendall College of Art and Design, March 31, 2003.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS:

"The Greek Slave: Visual Emblem of Freedom," Midwest Art Historical Society, March, 1980.

"Horatio Greenough's Rescue: Triumph of Civilization over Savagery," Midwest Art Historical Society, March, 1986.

"History and Myth:  Randolph Rogers's Bronze Doors," American Studies Association Meeting, Toronto, November, 1989.

"Political Compromise in Public Art:  Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom," College Art Association, New York, February, 1990.

"Suspended Narratives in the Art of Edward Hopper," College Art Association, Chicago, February, 1992.

Chair, "Narratives in the Visual Arts," Narrative An International Conference, Vanderbilt University, April, 1992.

"Suspended Narratives in the Art of Edward Hopper," Narrative:  An International Conference, Vanderbilt University, April, 1992.           

Conference Coordinator, "Transatlantic Encounters:  The 'Discovery' of the New World and the Old," Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, October, 1992.

Chair and Commentator, "Reconstructing Columbus:  Changing Visions of a National Myth," American Studies Association, Costa Mesa, California, November, 1992.

Chair and Commentator, "Gender Constructions in American Art," American Culture Association, New Orleans, April, 1993.

Chair, "Japan Through American Eyes:  Three Americans in Search of Japanese Culture," American Studies Association, Boston, November, 1993.

Speaker and Co-ordinator, "The Object in the Age of Theory," presented for the Association of American Art     Historians' Business Meeting, College Art Association, New York, February, 1994.

"A Regionalist Artist Paints a National Picture:  Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of Country Music," American Studies Association Kentucky-Tennessee Chapter, Monteagle, TN, March, 1994.

"Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of Country Music," 11th International Country Music Conference, Meridian, Mississippi, May 1994.

Moderator and Commentator, "Mid-19th-Century Art in the Capitol," "Perspectives on the Art and Architectural History of the United States Capitol," The United States Capitol Historical Society, September, 1994.

"Maintaining and Crossing Boundaries: Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of Country Music," "Country Music and Working Class Culture," American Studies Association, Nashville, October, 1994.

"Georgia O'Keeffe's Identification as a De-Gendered Artist," "Feminism and the Aesthetics of Difference," Organized by Falmouth College of Arts and Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, Great Britain, September, 1995.          

"On the 400th Anniversary of Pocahontas's Birth: What Ground Have 'We' Covered andWhere Are 'We" Standing Now?", Commentator, American Studies Association, Pittsburg, October, 1995.

"The Dialectics of Sight and Touch in Edouard Manet's Bar at the Folies Bergere "Sensual Reading," Aberdeen Critical Theory Seminar, University of Arberdeen, Scotland, July, 1996.

"Shifting Identities in American Scene Painting," Israel Association of American Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, November 1996.

"Museums," "Perceptions of Time/Perceptions of Being: The Humanities as We Approach the 21st Century," National Association for Humanities Education, Provo, Utah, March 1997.

Chair and Organizer, “American Re-Visions: Evaluating Robert Hughes’s Media Blitz,” College Art Association, February 1999.

“Gender Constructions in Camera Work: The Man Behind the Camera and Woman Before the Camera,” American Culture Association and Popular Culture

 Association in San Diego, California, March, 1999.

“Southern Memory of the Civil War in Monuments,” Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association, Kentucky, April 1999.

 “Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: A Marriage in Crisis, 1928-1933,” XXIII International Colloquium of Art History: Love and Disaffection in the Arts, Mexico, September 1999.

“The Politics of Race Atop the U. S. Capitol,” Social Theory, Politics & the Arts, 25^th Annual Conference, Vanderbilt University, October 1999.

“Single Family Homes Versus Multi-Dwelling Apartments: Edward Hopper and the Marriage-in-Crisis Debate,” in the panel “Marriage and Modernity,” American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, October 1999.

“The ‘Veil of Race’ In Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom,” College Art Association at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2000, New York.

 “Georgia O’Keeffe’s Skulls and Crosses: Death and Regeneration of  a Marriage,” Paper presented at the twelfth annual New Mexico Art History conference, Taos, NM, October 2000.

“Unspeakable Act: Male Rape”, American Men’s Studies’ Association 11^th annual conference, April 11, 2003.

“Suzanne Lacy’s and Leslie Labowitz’s In Mourning and in Rage: Ending the Silence of Sexual Abuse and Rape in the United States,” College Art Association, Seattle, February 19, 2004.

SELECT COMMITTEES

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art and Art History, 1994-1997

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Art and Art History, 1999-2003 Director of Art History Honors Program, 1999-2003

Director of Internships, Department of Art and Art History, 1999-2002

Faculty Council, College of Arts and Science, 1999-2000

Committee on American and Southern Studies, 1987-present

Humanities Subcommittee for University Research Council Grants and Fellowships, 1994-1995; 1998-2000

Graduate Faculty Council, 1994-1996

Committee on Admissions, 1996-2001

LECTURE COURSES TAUGHT

Nineteenth Century European Art

American Art to 1865

American Art 1865-1945

Art Since 1945

American Art and Architecture to 1900

Twentieth Century American Art

Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature

American Sculpture

Introduction to American Studies

SEMINARS TAUGHT

Impressionism (Freshman writing seminar)

Images of Native Americans

American Landscape

Gender and Sexuality in American Art

American Art and Culture Between the Two World Wars

Feminist Art and Art History

Pop Art and Culture

Postmodernism

Methods in Art History