Art Historian Awarded Fellowship at Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
For release: Apr. 21, 2003
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Dr. William Anthes, assistant professor of art at The University of Memphis, has been awarded a residential fellowship at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Research Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

As a residential fellow, Dr. Anthes will research Native American painters and sculptors who broke with traditional, tribal arts to develop innovative modern styles after World War II. According to Dr. Anthes, their work raises important questions about citizenship, cultural property and modern identity and is significant in the multicultural history of American modern and contemporary art.

Dr. Anthes' research on Native American modernist has been presented at conferences to the College Art Association, American Studies Association, and Native American Art Studies Association and has been published in the Journal of the West. Dr. Anthes is currently completing his first book, Native Moderns, based on this research. At the U of M, Dr. Anthes teaches courses on modern and contemporary art, art theory, and the history of photography.

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, a component of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, sponsors research in American Modernism (1890-present). Scholars have access to the extensive collection of works in the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, an on-site research library, and an archive of materials relating to O'Keeffe and her contemporaries.

Dr. Anthes' stay at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Research Center will be September 2003 through May 2004.

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