Nancy J Scott
Degrees
New York University, Ph.D.New York University, M.A.
Austin College, B.A.
Expertise
Professor of Fine Arts, Art History. Primary expertise: Modernism in Europe and America: Painting and sculpture from the French Revolution to mid-20th century.Affiliated with the Master of Arts Program in Comparative Humanities, the Interdepartmental Program in European Cultural Studies, and the Dept of Romance Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University.
Profile
Tyson Scholar, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - 2019“Georgia O'Keeffe, Education, and the Art of Philanthropy”
The 1949 Gift - The Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University.
Critical Lives: Georgia O'Keeffe (Reaktion Books, 2015).
Book project: J. M. W. Turner: The Slave Ship as Abolitionist Icon
The Slave Ship, and its origins, collectors and legacy.
Collecting Turner in America: Auctions and Audiences, 1876-1966
The Frick Collection in Boston, 1910, and the Museum of Fine Arts' first Blockbuster.
Public Sculpture: Politics on a Pedestal
Monuments of the Civil War period, North and South. Contemporary controversies, and public sculpture in context.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Shaw Memorial, Boston Common. Also, Saint-Gardens's early Italian sojourn.
Museum Studies;
The University Museum as site for critical thinking, analysis of visual interpretation, and social action.
Courses Taught
| ECON/FA | 87a | Economics and the Arts |
| FA | 30b | History of Art II: From the Renaissance to the Modern Age |
| FA | 57a | Paris/New York: Revolutions of Modernism |
| FA | 58a | Politics on a Pedestal: Statues, Sculpture, Monuments |
| FA | 86b | Museum Studies |
| FA | 155a | Impressionism: Avant-Garde Rebellion in Context |
| FA | 156b | Postimpressionism and Symbolism, 1880-1910 |
| FA | 157a | Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Life |
| FA | 158b | 20th Century Painting in France: Picasso and Matisse |
| FA | 192a | Studies in Modern and Contemporary Art |
| FA | 199a | Methods and Approaches in the History of Art |
Awards and Honors
Theodore and Jane Norman Fund, research on O'Keeffe and Fisk University (2020 - 2021)
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Tyson Research Fellow (2019)
Leon Levy Senior Fellowship. The Frick Collection, Center for the History of Collecting. (2014)
Theodore and Jane Norman Fund, Brandeis University. Research on JMW Turner. (2014 - 2017)
Pro Helvetia, Swiss Foundation for the Arts, (2004 - 2005)
Scholarship
Scott, Nancy J. "Henry Clay Frick and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Blockbuster Exhibition of 1910." Journal of the History of Collections TBA. Online: Journal of the History of Collections, fhaa050, https://doi-org.resources.library.brandeis.edu/10.1093/jhc/fhaa050 (2021): 30.
Scott, Nancy J. "Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time." Rev. of Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time, by Susan Grace Galassi, Ian Warrell, and Johanna Sheers Seidenstein. Victorian Studies vol. 61 Fall 2018: 121-23.
Scott, Nancy J. "The Civil War in Art and Memory." Rev. of The Civil War in Art and Memory, by Kirk Savage, ed.. CAA Reviews vol. National Gallery of Art May 2017
Scott, Nancy J. ""Georgia O'Keeffe"." Allgemeines Künstlerlexicon: Internationale Datenbank.. 2016.
Scott, Nancy J. Georgia O'Keeffe. London: Reaktion Books, 2015.
Scott, Nancy J, ed. Twelve + Sculptures: with the collaboration of Brandeis Fine Arts students.. Waltham, MA: BookSmart, 2013.
Scott, Nancy J.. "Vincenzo Vela e il Vittoriano di Roma. Ideali e contraddizioni di un monumento nazionale." Casa d’Artisti, Quaderni del Museo Vincenzo Vela (2013).
Scott, Nancy J. ""When the Unthinkable Happens: Fault LInes and Horizon Lines at the Rose Art Museum"." A Handbook for Academic Museums: Beyond Exhibitions and Education. First ed. vol. II Ed. Jandl, Stefanie S. and Gold, Mark S.. Edinburgh & Boston: MuseumsETC, 2012. 552-591.
Scott, Nancy J. "Dove/ O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence." Rev. of Dove/ O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence, by Debra Bricker Balken. CAA Reviews Online vol. CAA April 7, 2010
Scott, Nancy. ""America's First Public Turner: How Ruskin sold The Slave Ship to New York"." British Art Journal X, no 3. (Winter/Spring 2010) (2010): 69-77.
Scott, Nancy J. "European and American Modernism: Mapping Coordinates." The Rose Art Museum Collection Catalogue. Ed. Michael Rush. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2009
Scott, Nancy J. "Dear Home: A Sculptor's View from Rome, 1867-71: The Unpublished Letters of Anne Whitney." Sculpture Journal 17, No. 1. Spring 2008 (2008): 19-35.
Scott, Nancy J. ""Submerged: Arthur Dove's Going Fishin' and its Hidden History." Word & Image 23. April-June 2007 (2007): 138-155.
Scott, Nancy J and Gross, Anita. Peter Grippe: Myth, Movement and Metaphor. 2006 ed. Waltham, Massachusetts: Rose Art Museum, 2006.
Scott, Nancy J, A cura di Gianna A. Mina. Vincenzo Vela e l'America [Vela and America]. Bundesamt fur Kultur, Bern Switzerland, 2006.
Scott, Nancy J, Hauptman, William. Charles Gleyre 1806-74. 1980. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York.