Wanda M. Corn November 2, 2005

?Telling Tales: Georgia O?Keeffe as Autobiographer?

Wanda M. Corn is among the most respected and well-published scholars of American art. She is currently the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University. In 1974, she earned her Ph.D. from New York University?s Institute of Fine Arts. She has been a guest curator for several exhibitions, including Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (1983?84). In 1980, she became the first permanent appointment in the history of American art at Stanford. She was awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum?s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art in 2000 for her book The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935 (1999). Corn is currently working on an exhibition based on her award-winning book, and an exhibition on Gertrude Stein and the American avant-garde.

The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, are a forum for engaging the public in the creative experience and a discussion of what American art is today. Each year, the series offers new insights and perspectives by an artist, a critic, and a scholar. This annual series is made possible by the generosity of Clarice Smith. For information, please email [email protected] or visit the museum's Web site, www.AmericanArt.si.edu.

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