The Department of Art History and Art Conservation mourns the loss of our colleague Dr. Allison Morgan Sherman, who passed away on 26 April 2017 after a courageous and spirited battle with cancer. Flags were lowered on campus Tuesday, May 2 and Wednesday, May 3, 2017 in her memory.

As Queen’s continues to celebrate its Spring Convocation, the university presented an honourary degree to Otto Naumann, the leading name in Old Master paintings in North America, on Tuesday, June 6.

Susan Lord (Film and Media) Dylan Robinson (Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts) and Rosaleen Hill (Art Conservation) are among the ten Queen’s University researchers who have received more than $1.8 million in combined funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund. The fund supports researchers by providing the foundational research infrastructure required to undertake leading-edge research. 

Art History professor Norman Vorano has been named as one of only five recipients of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellowship! Read about Dr. Vorano's work and award in the Queen's Gazette. 

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Closer to Van Eyck Enhancements Released! Queen's Art History's own Ron Spronk helped to spearhead this exciting web project, which showcases high resolution, detailed images from Van Eyck's Ghent Alterpiece.  

For more information on the website, view the press release.

Visit the Closer to Van Eyck website.

Click the links below to read the full articles:

• Sarah Alford, Journal of Design History, September 2017: Ellen Gates Starr and Frank Lloyd Wright at Hull House: The Machine as the ‘Will of Life’ 
• Brenden Cull, Scientia Canadensis, September 2017: Early Canadian Botanical Photography at the Exposition universelle, Paris 1867

Congratulations! Art History Professor Allison Morehead has received a SSHRC Insight Grant for $159,000 for her project entitled, Edvard Munch, Modernism, and Medicine. Read about more Queen's recipients.

The National Gallery of Canada and the Art Conservation program at Queen's University are partnering to bring works of art back to life! Follow this link to learn more about this exciting partnership!

Professor Gauvin Bailey has two books coming out: The Palace of Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti (ca.