WILLIAMS ART HISTORY MA STUDENTS PRESENT ANNUAL JUDITH M. LENETT LECTURE AT CLARK ART INSTITUTE
Mon, May 15th, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Delaney Keenan and Sojeong Lim, the two Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fellows, Williams College M.A. Class of 2023, present the work they have produced during their fellowship on May 15, 5-6 p.m. A reception follows the talk.
Keenan is working with early eighteenth-century portraits by Nehemiah Partridge and John Heaton from the Albany Institute of History & Art, launching an inquiry into the artists’ techniques and ground structures. The project consists of surface cleaning, filling, and retouching the portraits while integrating scientific analysis such as technical imaging, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), and cross-section stratigraphy. Through this work, Keenan seeks to understand the preparatory grounds and pigments used by Partridge and his circle of contemporaries.
Lim is working with garments and objects from the Revolutionary War period contained in a private collection, treating everything from eighteenth-century evening coats to a grocery list folded inside a leather pocketbook. In this lecture, Lim discusses how military design influenced emerging material culture in early New England.
ABOUT THE LENETT MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP
Each academic year, the Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fellowship is awarded to select second-year students in the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. The fellowship allows recipients to explore issues of conservation in the field of American art. Working closely with Williamstown + Atlantic Art Conservation Center (W+AACC) conservators, each fellow spends two semesters conserving and researching an American art object. The work culminates in a public program and in an article in the W+AACC publication, Art Conservator.
The Lenett Memorial Fund was established by the family and friends of the late Judith Lenett, a candidate for the Master’s degree, class of 1983, and provides funding for graduate students to undertake research and conservation projects on American art objects, working with conservators at the W+AACC and art historians.
Free and open to the public.