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Filtering by Tag: stacy lloyd fellow
Phillippa Pitts is a Horowitz Foundation Fellow for American Art at Boston University. Her research questions social, political, and racial borders within American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, highlighting the aspirations and anxieties around expansion, immigration, xenophobia, and Indigeneity that underpin such constructions.
Phoebe Springstubb is a PhD candidate in Art and Architectural History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her current doctoral research is a comparative study of the visual cultures of the North American and Russian Arctics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Artist and scholar Brittany Carson holds a master’s degree in Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology from North Carolina State University. She has worked as a horticulturist and researcher in Madagascar, Botswana, and throughout the U.S. Her research explores a botanical sense of place from an Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) perspective. Learn more about her on our blog.
Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her dissertation project investigates the artistic and knowledge production of painted and printed flower books from Germany and the Low Countries in the long seventeenth century (c. 1575–1725). Her research intersects topics in the history of art, science, and the book, and experiments with methods in material culture and digital humanities. Applying the concept of “making and knowing” and “learning by doing,” Jessie particularly engages with historical reworking/remaking as an empirical way to inquire into producing (color) images of the plant world. Jessie’s research at Oak Spring will support her PHD dissertation on seventeenth-century flower books “Everlasting Flowers Between the Pages,” a project which investigates the artistic and knowledge production of early modern botanical watercolors and their contribution to the development of plant science. You can learn more about her at https://jessieweihsuanchen.com.
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Josepha Richard is a historian specialised in 18-19th century China, with a specific interest in the urban history of Guangzhou (Canton) and Sino-Western interactions under the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Chinese history at the department of Historical Studies in Bristol University, England. Recently she became an Oak Spring Garden Foundation fellow at the University of Bristol as part of the John Bradby Blake project. The latter combines history of art and science by analysing botanically accurate paintings of Chinese plants commissioned by British trader John Bradby Blake in late 18th century Guangzhou, and Blake's abundant handwritten manuscripts on the plants.
As part of her Stacy Lloyd III grant, Josepha will be comparing Blake painting commissions and manuscripts held in OSGF with other archives containing parts of Blake's collections in the UK.
“The OSGF library is a dream come true for a researcher,” wrote Josepha of her research at Oak Spring. “I have never found quite such a unique blend of beauty and practicality, comfort and access to rare books and artworks. In particular, I have found the availability of different manuscripts of Western botanical artworks to compare with Blake’s hybrid Sino-British botanical paintings invaluable.”
To learn more about Josepha and her research, follow her on Twitter or visit our blog.
Kristan Hanson is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas, where her research focuses on women and horticulture in late nineteenth-century French visual culture.
“My dissertation topic aligns perfectly with Rachel Lambert Mellon’s collection of rare and unique materials pertaining to plants, gardens, and landscapes as well as her interest in French Impressionist paintings,” Kristan said.
During her residency, Kristan consulted rare books, botanical illustrations, and other resources related to her dissertation "In Bloom: Women and Horticulture in French Visual Culture, 1860s-1880s." The interdisciplinary project examined how painters responded to the key roles of Parisian women and plant mobility in local and global horticultural networks. Kristan used the library’s collections to research the emergence of domestic gardening and floral arranging as gendered leisure pursuits, the contributions of understudied women artists to the field of botanical illustration, as well as the formation of transregional horticultural trade routes and their impact on social practices and artistic representations in nineteenth-century France. A focus of her research were the botanical illustrations of pelargoniums by artists Lise Cloquet and Baroness van Lyden, whose work helped to establish a fashion for those flowers in 1820s Europe.
You can read more about Kristan here.
Lindsay Wells holds an M.A. in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Her research focuses on environmental humanities and visual culture, and she used the Stacy Lloyd fellowship to research her doctoral dissertation, which explores how nineteenth-century houseplant horticulture influenced the botanical imagery of the British Aesthetic Movement.
“My research as a Stacy Lloyd III Fellow will not only challenge our current understanding of botanical motifs in Victorian visual culture, but also foster critical exchanges between art history and the environmental humanities,” Lindsay said. “The Oak Spring Garden Library Collection contains hundreds of items of direct relevance to my project.”
During her residency, Lindsay researched rare books, historical documents, and works of art from the Oak Spring Garden library collection about the history of indoor gardening. You can learn more about her here.
Ashley Boulden, the inaugural recipient of the 2018 Stacy Lloyd III Fellowship for Bibliographic Study, is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art and Architectural History at the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Art. Her dissertation focuses on engraved ornament prints that circulated in Paris during the eighteenth century, including the embroidery patterns of Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin. Her particular focus is the 258-page manuscript “Recueil de plantes” by Saint-Aubin housed in the Oak Spring Garden Library, which had not previously been digitized or widely researched.
Learn more about Ashley and her work here.