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Jay DeFeo’s oeuvre has largely been contextualized through her most famous painting The Rose. This thesis explores the significance of photography for her artistic practice, both before and after The Rose. In the 1950s DeFeo’s use of photography was limited, resulting in only a …

During the 1930s, Russian-American artist Raphael Soyer (December 25, 1899–November 4, 1987), a committed realist, was one of the preeminent artists working in the United States. However, with Abstract Expressionism superseding American Scene Painting as the dominant mode of exp…

My dissertation investigates the impact of the poetic texts of Frank O’Hara, particularly working to situate him as a war poet, a resistor of societal pressures and dominant political ideologies, and a poet who defied conventions of what it meant to be a man in mid-century Ameri…

My thesis will look into the careers of Abstract Expressionists Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, and Elaine de Kooning with an emphasis on the years of their respective marriages to fellow artists, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. While the marriages wi…