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Making & Meaning: The Frances Lehman Loeb Center, Vassar College. (Hirmer) Elizabeth Nogrady, ed., 2023
Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth's Botanical Imagination (Brandywine Museum of Art), 2023
An initial consideration of Andrew Wyeth's legacy through the lens of ecocriticism and the change... more An initial consideration of Andrew Wyeth's legacy through the lens of ecocriticism and the changes in the twin ecosystems to which his uniquely place-based practice was devoted. Accompanies an exhibition at the Farnsworth and Brandywine museums in 2023-4
Abstract Flash: Unseen Andrew Wyeth (Brandywine Museum of Art), 2023
An overview of archival evidence of Andrew Wyeth's complex relationship with abstraction in the v... more An overview of archival evidence of Andrew Wyeth's complex relationship with abstraction in the visual arts, including his relationship with Edward Hopper, Ken Noland, and Franz Kline. Accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Brandywine and Farnsworth museums in 2023-4.
Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth: Rockland, Maine, 2023
A Singularly Marine and Fabulous Produce: The Cultures of Seaweed, 2023
Accompanies exhibition of the same name at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Thomas Cole's Studio: Memory and Inspiration, 2022
Accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site
After Icebergs with a Painter: A New Edition (Black Dome Press), 2022
Precedes new edition of the 1861 book by Louis Legrand Noble, in conjunction with the 22-3 exhibi... more Precedes new edition of the 1861 book by Louis Legrand Noble, in conjunction with the 22-3 exhibition "Chasing Icebergs: Art and a Disappearing Landscape" at Olana State Historic Site.
Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, 2021
Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church and Our Contemporary Moment, 2020
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art, M. Facos ed., 2019
Critics and commentators from the period to the present day have proclaimed the landscape paintin... more Critics and commentators from the period to the present day have proclaimed the landscape paintings of the Hudson River School America’s major contribution to global nineteenth-century art and named Thomas Cole the “father” of that group for his intellectually ambitious canvases. However, the Hudson River School’s preoccupation with the domestic landscape has been overlooked. This chapter offers an alternate history of American landscape painting by placing Thomas Cole’s multifaceted engagement with country houses in the context of a national concern with domesticity in these years and in relation to the work of the “painter-architects” who followed Cole.
Seeing America: The Arc of Abstraction, 2019
Panorama: The Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, 2018
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2017
Awarded the 2018 Landscape History Essay Prize, Society of Architectural Historians "Thomas Cole... more Awarded the 2018 Landscape History Essay Prize, Society of Architectural Historians
"Thomas Cole's paintings of the country house of the antebellum agriculturalist and geologist George William Featherstonhaugh have fallen into undeserved obscurity. The mere fact that Cole made "house portraits" goes against received wisdom about his rejection of topographic view painting in favor of a rigorously intellectual and poetic art of landscape. Moreover, the reception history of the three surviving canvases in this series has been clouded by the political disputes period commentators had with the patron. Reexamining existing sources alongside new archival discoveries, William L. Coleman interprets the Featherston Park paintings as early evidence of Cole's abiding concern with the inhabited landscape across media."
Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2016
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Autumn 2014)
The painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela and composer Jean Sibelius enjoyed a complex friendship across ... more The painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela and composer Jean Sibelius enjoyed a complex friendship across media in the final decade of the nineteenth century as members of a group of young artist-intellectuals that called itself “The Symposium.” This article studies Gallen-Kallela’s images of Sibelius and of his work, centering on the idea of “natural music,” with which the composer was especially closely associated.
Tim Shephard and Anne Leonard, eds. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, pp. 137-144., Sep 18, 2013
Reviews by William L Coleman
Woman's Art Journal, 2020
Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2019
Journal of American Studies, 2018
Making & Meaning: The Frances Lehman Loeb Center, Vassar College. (Hirmer) Elizabeth Nogrady, ed., 2023
Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth's Botanical Imagination (Brandywine Museum of Art), 2023
An initial consideration of Andrew Wyeth's legacy through the lens of ecocriticism and the change... more An initial consideration of Andrew Wyeth's legacy through the lens of ecocriticism and the changes in the twin ecosystems to which his uniquely place-based practice was devoted. Accompanies an exhibition at the Farnsworth and Brandywine museums in 2023-4
Abstract Flash: Unseen Andrew Wyeth (Brandywine Museum of Art), 2023
An overview of archival evidence of Andrew Wyeth's complex relationship with abstraction in the v... more An overview of archival evidence of Andrew Wyeth's complex relationship with abstraction in the visual arts, including his relationship with Edward Hopper, Ken Noland, and Franz Kline. Accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Brandywine and Farnsworth museums in 2023-4.
Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth: Rockland, Maine, 2023
A Singularly Marine and Fabulous Produce: The Cultures of Seaweed, 2023
Accompanies exhibition of the same name at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Thomas Cole's Studio: Memory and Inspiration, 2022
Accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site
After Icebergs with a Painter: A New Edition (Black Dome Press), 2022
Precedes new edition of the 1861 book by Louis Legrand Noble, in conjunction with the 22-3 exhibi... more Precedes new edition of the 1861 book by Louis Legrand Noble, in conjunction with the 22-3 exhibition "Chasing Icebergs: Art and a Disappearing Landscape" at Olana State Historic Site.
Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, 2021
Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church and Our Contemporary Moment, 2020
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art, M. Facos ed., 2019
Critics and commentators from the period to the present day have proclaimed the landscape paintin... more Critics and commentators from the period to the present day have proclaimed the landscape paintings of the Hudson River School America’s major contribution to global nineteenth-century art and named Thomas Cole the “father” of that group for his intellectually ambitious canvases. However, the Hudson River School’s preoccupation with the domestic landscape has been overlooked. This chapter offers an alternate history of American landscape painting by placing Thomas Cole’s multifaceted engagement with country houses in the context of a national concern with domesticity in these years and in relation to the work of the “painter-architects” who followed Cole.
Seeing America: The Arc of Abstraction, 2019
Panorama: The Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, 2018
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2017
Awarded the 2018 Landscape History Essay Prize, Society of Architectural Historians "Thomas Cole... more Awarded the 2018 Landscape History Essay Prize, Society of Architectural Historians
"Thomas Cole's paintings of the country house of the antebellum agriculturalist and geologist George William Featherstonhaugh have fallen into undeserved obscurity. The mere fact that Cole made "house portraits" goes against received wisdom about his rejection of topographic view painting in favor of a rigorously intellectual and poetic art of landscape. Moreover, the reception history of the three surviving canvases in this series has been clouded by the political disputes period commentators had with the patron. Reexamining existing sources alongside new archival discoveries, William L. Coleman interprets the Featherston Park paintings as early evidence of Cole's abiding concern with the inhabited landscape across media."
Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2016
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Autumn 2014)
The painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela and composer Jean Sibelius enjoyed a complex friendship across ... more The painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela and composer Jean Sibelius enjoyed a complex friendship across media in the final decade of the nineteenth century as members of a group of young artist-intellectuals that called itself “The Symposium.” This article studies Gallen-Kallela’s images of Sibelius and of his work, centering on the idea of “natural music,” with which the composer was especially closely associated.
Tim Shephard and Anne Leonard, eds. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, pp. 137-144., Sep 18, 2013
Woman's Art Journal, 2020
Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2019
Journal of American Studies, 2018
