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EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Teaching
Museum Administration and Research
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS Cover: Marguerite Zorach, the Early Years
Example of Zorach's paintings

Peggy Bacon: Personalities and Places (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975), text by Tarbell and checklist by Janet Flint, 166 pp.
Chaim Gross
"Walking Negress," 1928

Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913-39 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1979), co-authored with Joan M. Marter and Jeffrey Wechsler, 161 pp.
Cover: Hugo Robus (1885-1964)
Modelling Hands, 1920-22, bronze

The Figurative Tradition and American Art (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1980), co-authored with Patricia Hills, 190 pp.
William and Marguerite Zorach: The Maine Years (Rockland, Maine: Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1980), 55 pp.
Ezekiel's Vision (Philadelphia: National Museum of American Jewish History, 1985), text by Tarbell, 48 pp.
Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts
Co-editor with Geoffrey Sill, and author of "John Storrs and the Spirit of Walt Whitman" and "Mahonri Young's Sculptures of Laboring Men, Walt Whitman, and Jean François Millet" Walt Whitman and Robert Laurent and American Figurative Sculpture l9l0-1960 (exh. cat.), David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 1994, 60 pp.
PUBLICATIONS: CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Three essays for William I. Homer, ed., Avant-Garde Painting & Sculpture
in America 1910-25 (Newark: Univ. of Delaware, 1975), pp. 25-27, 154-61, 162-70.
"Marguerite Zorach," "William Zorach," and contributions to the Bibliography, The Advent of Modernism: Post-Impressionism and North American Art, 1900-1918 (Atlanta, Georgia: High Museum of Art, 1986), 180-83 and 198.
"Frederick MacMonnies and the Princeton Monument in the Context of the American Renaissance,"
Public Art in New Jersey During the Period of the American Renaissance (Wayne, New Jersey:
Museums Council of New Jersey, 1990), pp. 84-94.
Cover: The Human Figure in American Sculpture:
"Primitivism, Folk Art, and the Exotic," for The Human Figure in American Sculpture: The Question of Modernity, 1890-1945. Seattle: University of Washington Press and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995.
"Marguerite and William Zorach," "Peggy Bacon," "Robert Laurent," "Hugo Robus," and bibliography
for The Dictionary of Art (28 volumes) (London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1996.
PUBLICATIONS: PROFESSIONAL JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Early Paintings by Marguerite Thompson Zorach," American Art Review 1 (March-April 1974): 43-57.
"William Zorach's Reclining Figures," Archives of American Art Journal 15 (1975): 3-10.
"Chaim Gross's Pictorial Works," American Art Review 4 (January 1978): 32-39, 98-100.
"The Impact of the Armory Show on American Sculpture," Archives of American Art Journal 18 (1978): 2-ll.
"Seymour Lipton: A New Anthropology for Sculpture," Arts Magazine 54 (October 1979): 78-84.
"Hugo Robus's Pictorial Works, 1912-20," Arts Magazine 54 (March 1980): 136-40.
"Jim Turrell," Art News 83 (April 1984): 137.
"Peggy Bacon's Pastel and Charcoal Portraits and a Feminist Reinterpretation of her Biography," Woman's Art Journal 9 (Fall-Winter 1988-89): 32-37.
"Two Modernist Wood Sculptures," Amon Carter Museum Program 1990 (November 1989): 5-8.
"Max Weber: The Cubist Decade, 1910-1920," American Art Review 5 (Winter 1993): 132-39.
"William Zorach's Kiddie Kar," 1994 Annual Report of the Middlebury College Museum of Art (Spring 1996).
PUBLICATIONS: NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
"Ask the Experts: Women and Art," [Camden, New Jersey] Courier-Post, Series of articles, March 24, 26, and 27, 1991.
PUBLICATIONS: SMALL EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Not Quite Classical: William M. Hoffman, Jr., A Retrospective Exhibition.
(Camden, New Jersey: Stedman Art Gallery, 1991).
Chaim Gross Memorial Exhibition. (New York: Forum Gallery and Chaim Gross Studio Museum, 1994).
Sacred Conversations: A Retrospective View of the Life and Work of John J. Giannotti.
(Camden, New Jersey: Stedman Art Gallery, 1991).
PUBLICATIONS IN PRESS
The Emergence of Modern American Sculpture: Innovations of the Early Twentieth Century,
900-page typescript. 350 illus. Cambridge University Press (1997).
ESSAYS AND CATALOGUES CONTRACTED
American National Biography. American Council of Learned Societies and Oxford University Press.
Consultant for twentieth-century sculpture and biographer for ten sculptors.
SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
"Twentieth-Century American Sculpture," Conference Center, University of Delaware, 22 April 1983.
Director of three concurrent exhibitions of sculpture and sculptors' drawings. Sponsored by the Delaware Humanities Forum (NEH).
"Women, Art and Power: A Discussion of Feminist Art Criticism," Stedman Art Gallery, 17 February 1986. Camden facilitator for the symposium organized by The Institute for Research on Women, New Brunswick NJ.
"Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts," Rutgers University, Camden NJ, 28 April l989. Co-directed with David Reynolds. Sponsored by the New Jersey Committee of the Humanities (NEH).
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS FOR RESEARCH, WRITING, AND PUBLICATION
1994 Pollock-Krasner House and Research Center, East Hampton, Long Island, Scholar in Residence, July 1991-93 Private endowment for research through Rutgers Univ. (for catalogue raisonné of Seymour Lipton's sculpture)
1990 Board of Governors, Rutgers University, Special Award 1990 Private endowment for research through Rutgers Univ. (for catalogue raisonné of Robert Laurent's sculpture)
1989-90 John Sloan Memorial Foundation Research Grant (for the publication of the essays of Seymour Lipton)
1989 Smithsonian Institution Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (for research on Lipton)
1988, 89, 93, 97 Faculty Academic Study Program, Rutgers University [three one-semester sabbaticals]
1986, 1989, 1990, 1991Merit Awards, Rutgers University 1985-92 Rutgers University Research Council Grants
1985 NEH Summer Stipend for Research 1982-84 John Sloan Memorial Foundation Research Grant
1972-74 Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowships
1969-72 Unidel Graduate Fellowships, University of Delaware
STUDY-TRIP CO-LEADER FOR
PAPERS PRESENTED
PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCHOLARLY SYMPOSIA, 1984-95
"The Impact of Robert Henri on American Sculpture," [Symposium on Robert Henri and the Independent Movement], Delaware Art Museum, 1 June l984.
"Is There a Philadelphia Style," [Symposium on American Art], The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, 1 December l984.
"Revisionist Attitudes Toward American Academic Sculpture," [Symposium--Paul Manship in
Context: A Study in Changing Taste in America], Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, 22 Nov. l985.
"Intellectual Sources for and Thematic Concerns of Seymour Lipton's Sculpture of the 1940s," [College Art Association Session: "New Myths for Old: Redefining Abstract Expressionism"] New York, 13 February 1986.
"Frederick MacMonnies and the Princeton Monument in the Context of the American Renaissance," [Symposium: Public Art in New Jersey, 1876-1917: The American Renaissance.]
Museums Council of New Jersey, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ, April 1988.
Respondent for papers delivered at "Walt Whitman's Camden," Walt Whitman Center,
Rutgers University, Camden, April l990.
"The Value of the Catalogue Raisonné: Several Case Histories" [1993] and Cochair,
"Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association Special Session [1994 and 1995] College
Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, NYC, and San Antonio.
PUBLIC LECTURES, 1984-95
"Connoisseurship of Early Twentieth-Century American Sculpture," [American Art Forum Series]
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, 18 December 1984.
"Kindred Spirits: American Transcendental Poets and Painters," competitive selection,
DHF Speakers Bureau, 1985.
"The Impact of Artists' Organizations upon Early Twentieth-Century American Artists."
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1 December 1988.
"A Feminist Re-Interpretation of the Biographies of Marguerite Zorach and Peggy Bacon,
" Women's Caucus for Art, Philadelphia, 26 September 1988.
"Remington in the Context of American Realist Sculpture," Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth,
Texas, April 11, l991.
"Daniel Chester French, William Zorach, and Seymour Lipton: Identifying the Creative Moment,"
Winterthur Museum, 9 May l991.
"Art Deco, Archaism, and Paul Manship," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York, 3 Nov. l991.
"Transformations in Taste: 20th-Century Public Sculptures and Public Responses," Telfair Academy
of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, 25 February 1992. Series: "Lectures on Public Sculpture by Distinguished Speakers"
"The Changing Tradition of American Sculpture from Colonial to Modern Times," Burlington County
Historical Society, Burlington, New Jersey, 3 April 1993.
"The New Women and Sculpture among the Early Modernists," Katonah Museum of Art, 23 April 1993.
"Modern American Sculpture," Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, 14 July 1993.
"Robert Laurent and Modern Sculpture in America," University of Chicago, 3 October 1994.
"The Use of Technology in the Determination of Authenticity of Sculptures," CAA annual meeting,
San Antonio TX, January 1995.
"Ibram Lassaw and Seymour Lipton: Are They Abstract Expressionist Sculptors?" Pollock-Krasner
House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY, 20 August 1995.
"Jazz and American Art," Walt Whitman Center, Rutgers University, Camden NJ, 13
September 1995.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Teacher of Theology and Biblical studies, Preacher of sermons, personnel administrator, and delegate to regional conference, Hockessin United Methodist Church, 1983-92.
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John Stores and the Sprit of Walt Whitman
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"Marguerite Zorach," "William Zorach,"
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Example from the book 
A Question of Moderninity
Jose de Creeft; The Cloud, 1939, greenstone
Examples from the book
A Question of Moderninity
Robert Laurent - Seated Nude

A Question of Moderninity
Robert Laurent - Abstract Head

"Mahonri Young's Sculptures of Working Men"
and contributions to the Bibliography, The Advent of Modernism:
Post-Impressionism and North American Art, 1900-1918
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