Degrees:
- PhD History of Art, University of Southern California
- MA History of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- BA History of Art, Barnard College, Columbia University
Curriculum Vitae
Research & Teaching Interests:
- American art
- Modern art and design, craft, and decorative arts
- Architecture
- Material and visual culture
- The relationship between tapestry and modernist painting
- Contemporary artists' tapestries
- Modernist art criticism and design reform
- Artists' studios and colonies
- Colonial revival
Courses Taught:
- ArtHist 102: Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture
- ArtHist 250: Introduction to American Art
- ArtHist 368: History of Modern Design
- ArtHist 353: American Art: Colonial Period-1870
- ArtHist 354: American Art: 1870 - Present
- ArtHist 355: American Folk Art
- ArtHist 459: American Architecture
- ArtHist 501: Colloquium in Method and Theory
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ArtHist 750: Revival! Visualizing the American Past
Selected Publications:
Wells, Katharine L. Review of Timothy Erwin, Textual Vision: Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture. 19, no. 3. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2017: 508-510.
Wells, K.L.H. “Rockefeller's Guernica and the Collection of Modern Copies.” Journal of the History of Collections 27.2 (2015): 255-277.
Wells, K.L.H. Review of Decorum, Musee d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. 7.3 Journal of Modern Craft, 2014: 329-333.
Wells, K.L.H. “Artistes contre Liciers: La Renaissance de la Tapisserie Française.” Decorum. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Skira Flammarion, (2013): 55-59.
Wells, K.L.H. “Serpentine Sideboards, Hogarth’s Analysis, and the Beautiful Self.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 46.3 (2013): 399-413.
Wells, K.L.H. Curating the Cultural Landscape: Chipstone House as Historical Property. 2.2 The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, 2009: 177-194.