STEPHEN H. GODDARD
Max Kade-Erich H. Markel Department of Graphic Arts
Spencer Museum of Art
1301 Mississippi Street
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
EDUCATION
1983 Ph.D. The University of Iowa (Dissertation: The Master of Frankfurt and his Shop)
1978 M.A. The University of Iowa (Art History)
1973 B.A. Grinnell College
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
2006- Senior Curator and Curator of Prints and Drawings, Spencer Museum of Art
1995- Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Spencer Museum of Art
1984-95 Curator of Prints and Drawings, Spencer Museum of Art
1983-84 Museum Intern (postdoctoral fellow), Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery
1974-75 Museum Assistant, The University of Iowa Museum of Art
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1995- Professor, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, The University of Kansas
1990-95 Associate Professor, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, The University of Kansas
1984-90 Assistant Professor, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, The University of Kansas
1983 Lecturer, Boston University, Brussels Campus (spring semester)
MAJOR GRANTS, ACADEMIC AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2009 Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship, for exhibition research on "Machine in a Void: the First World War and the Dawn of the Machine Age."
2008 University of Kansas Sustainability Award
2002 Richard Florsheim Art Fund, grant for the acquisition of works of art by Ynez Johnston
2001 Excellence in Teaching Award from the K.U. Center for Teaching Excellence
2000 Byron A. Alexander Graduate Mentor Award
1999 Nominated for the Byron A. Alexander Graduate Mentor Award
1997 Elected President of Print Council of America (served through 2001)
1995 University of Kansas ASTUTE Center Quest for the Best award (technology award for website development)
1994 Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, funding for international transportation and insurance for "An Eye on Flanders: the Graphic Art of Jules De Bruycker"
1991 National Endowment for the Humanities, grant for "Les XX and the Belgian Avant-garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, ca. 1890"
1991 National Endowment for the Arts, grant for "Les XX and the Belgian Avant-garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, ca. 1890"
1989 National Endowment for the Humanities, Exhibition Planning Grant for "The Graphic Art of Les XX and the Belgian Avant-garde, 1880-1900"
1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Museum Purchase Plan for prints by living American artists
1987 Max Kade Foundation, Inc. Grant to assist publication of the exhibition catalogue, "The World in Miniature, Engravings by the German Little Masters, 1500-1550"
1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Special Exhibition Grant for implementation of the exhibition, "The World in Miniature, Engravings by the German Little Masters, 1500-1550"
1983-84 National Museum Act Fellowship, for a museum internship at the Yale University Art Gallery
1981-82 Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship, for dissertation research in Belgium
PUBLICATIONS
Trees and other Ramifications: Branches in Nature and Culture. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 2009. 170 pp. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1057008
“Modular Prints – A Special Case of the Assembled Woodcut in the 15th- and 16th- Centuries.” In: Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian. New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, 2008.
Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground: Xu Bing’ Book Works. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 2007. 9 pp.
“Assumed knowledge. The use of prints in early sixteenth-century Antwerp workshops.” Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen / Antwerp Royal Museum Annual (2004/2005): 123-40.
“Master of Frankfurt (Hendrik van Wueluwe?) Saints Odilia and Cecilia,” “Master of Frankfurt (Hendrik van Wueluwe?) Christ carrying the cross,” and biographical entry on Hendrik van Wueluwe. In Van den Brink, Peter and Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, eds. ExtravagAnt! A Forgotten Chapter of Antwerp Painting 1500-1530. Antwerp: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2005. pp. 28-31, 222,
Brion Gysin: A Selection of Books and Works on Paper. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 2005. 20 pp.
Teaching from Prints: The Legacy of John Talleur. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 2003. 24 pp.
The UMKC Hand Print Press: 10 Years. Kansas City, Missouri, University of Missouri: 2003. 18 pp.
"Prints & Politics: Aerosol Activism," with Michael Krueger. Contemporary Impressions 11 no. 1 (Spring 2003): pp. 6-8, and stencil insert.
"Works of Richard Mock." In: Mock, Richard, Quivers: Twenty Linocuts. Omaha, Nebraska: Gallery 72, 2002. 5-7.
Four catalogue entries in: Haus, Anny-Claire, ed. Les dieux comme les hommes. La renaissance dans la gravure germanique au début du xvie siècle. Un choix de Jean Louis Schefer. Strasbourg: Musée des Beaux-arts, 2003. 129, 144, 148, 186-87.
"Demo'Graphics Report" (with Michael Krueger). Contemporary Impressions 10 no. 1 (Spring 2002): 2-6.
"A Printable Box by H.C. Westermann." In: Dear Print Fan: A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn. Cambridge, Massachusetts: 2002.133-38.
"Hendrick Goltzius Working Around Tetrode." In: Goltzius and the Third Dimension. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2002. 3-46.
"Printmaking: Will the Center Hold?" In: In--Print: evolution in contemporary printmaking. Hull, UK: Quay Art in partnership with Ferens Art Gallery, 2001. 11-14.
Alberto Vargas and the Esquire Pinup (essayist and co-editor with Maria Buszek). Publication postponed due to copyright issues, texts available online (2001): http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/print/vargas/
Remembering the Family Farm: 150 years of American Prints. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 2001. 94 pp.
"Remembering the Family Farm." American Art Review 13 no. 2 (April 2001): 156-63.
"Barbara Butts and Lee Hendrix, with the assistance of Scott C. Wolf, Painting on Light: Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein." Book Review. CAA Reviews (February 2001).
"Van Gogh to Mondrian." Book review. Print Quarterly 17 no. 4 (December 2000): 429-31.
"Dirk Vellert's Drummer and Child with a Hoop." Festschrift Konrad Oberhuber, Milan: Electa, 2000. 262-271.
"Vier Gentse Etsers: Heins, Den Duyts, Baertsoen en De Bruycker" (Four Etchers in Ghent: Heins, Den Duyts, Baertsoen and De Bruycker) 200 Jaar Versamelen. Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent. Ghent and Amsterdam: Ludion, 2000. 168-172.
"Commentary." Southern Graphics Council Newsletter, summer 1999.
"Investigating and Celebrating the 'Golden Age' in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp: 1854-1894." In Detail New Studies of Northern Renaissance Art in Honor of Walter S. Gibson. Ed. Laurinda S. Dixon. Turnhout: Brepols, 1998. 151-64.
"Jacques Bellange, Printmaker of Lorraine." Book review. Print Quarterly 15 no. 1 (March 1998): 91-94.
Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 1998. 49 pp.
An Eye on Flanders: The Graphic Art of Jules De Bruycker. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 1996. 111 pp.
"Otmar Plassmann, Die Zeichnungen Heinrich Aldegrevers." Book review. Print Quarterly 13 no. 2 (June 1996): 201-02.
"Master of Frankfurt," and "The Little Masters," two entries for The Dictionary of Art. New York" Grove, 1996.
"Les Petits maîtres de la fin du xve siècle. Á Anvers" and "Vers le xvie siècle: l'essor d'Anvers." Les Primitifs flamands et leur temps. Ed. Michel de Grand Ry. Wesmael: La Renaissance du Livre, 1994. 568-72 and 621-24.
"The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550. By David Landau & Peter Parshall." Book review. Print Collector's Newsletter 15 no. 6 (January-February 1995): 238-39.
"Eros Riding a Snail by Master H.L." Porticus 14-16 (1991-1993): 52-59.
Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, ca. 1890, Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 1993. 400 pp.
"Rural American Skyscapes" in Rural America: Prints from the Collection of Steven Schmidt. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art,1993. 9-14.
"Keith Moxey, Peasants, Warriors and Wives, Popular Imagery in the Reformation." Book review. Print Quarterly 9 no. 2 (June 1992): 207-09.
"Ernst Förster's Drawing, Dürer at his Mother's Deathbed, and its Role in the 1828 Dürer Festival in Nuremberg." Pantheon 46 (1988): 117-20.
"Probationes Pennae, Some Sixteenth-century Doodles on the Theme of Folly Attributed to the Antwerp Humanist Pieter Gillis and His Colleagues." The Renaissance Quarterly 41 no. 2 (summer 1988): 242-67.
The World in Miniature: Engravings by the German Little Masters, 1500-1550. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art,1988. 240 pp.
The Master of Frankfurt and his Shop. Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie, Klasse der Schone Kunsten, Jaargang 46, 1984, Nr. 38. Brussels: Royal Academy, 1986. 235 pp.
"Brocade Patterns in the Shop of the Master of Frankfurt, an Accessory to Stylistic Analysis." The Art Bulletin 67 no. 3 (September 1985): 401-41.
"Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863, Sketch for The Tiger Hunt, ca. 1854." French Drawings, Acquisitions 1970-1984. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery, 1984. 38-43.
Sets & Series, Prints from the Low Countries (editor and major contributor). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery, 1984. 38-43.
"Documents Concerning Hendrik van Wueluwe." Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Jaarboek (1983): 33-52.
"The Man with a Rose, a new attribution to the Master of Frankfurt (Hendrik van Wueluwe reconsidered)." Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Jaarboek (1983): 53-83.
SELECTED PAPERS
"Bericht über die Organisation der Graphischen Sammlungen in den USA und Canada im Print Council." Tagung der Leiter der Graphischen Sammlungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Coburg Oct. 11-14, 2007.
"Harlem Arts and Poetry: A Collaboration between Langston Hughes and Aaron Douglas," with Elizabeth Schultz. Conference on New Literacies: Integrating Literature and the Arts. Lawrence Arts Center, February 2003.
"The Virtual Printroom," Visualization & Modeling Workshop II, University of Kansas, March, 2002.
"Hendrick Goltzius and the Third Dimension," Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Madison, Wisconsin, January, 2002."H.C. Westermann on Paper," University of Arkansas, Fine Arts Center. Sept., 1999.
"Collecting and Curating Prints," Session Chair, Southern Graphics Council annual meeting, Tempe Arizona, April 1999.
"Dürer in the Nineteenth Century," Midwest Art History Society, special session in honor of Charles Cuttler, Chicago, April 1998.
"Highlights from the Lowlands: Dutch, Flemish and Belgian Prints" lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Inked in Time, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, March, 1998.
"Issues of Printed and Electronically Transmitted Art" (Hall Center mini-course), February, 1998.
"Investigating and Celebrating the 'Golden Age' in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp: 1854-1894," Case Western Reserve University, October 1996 (Symposium: In Detail: New Studies of Northern Renaissance Art).
"Schizophrenic City - Hallucinated Landscapes: Art in and around Turn-of-the-century Ghent," Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin,Madison, October 1996.
"Antoine Wiertz and James Ensor," mini-symposium on Anti-Realism in Belgian Art, University of Missouri at Columbia, December 1995.
Respondent, Symposium at Northwestern University in conjunction with the exhibition "Graven Images: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540-1640," May 1993.
"Pieusement Taillé en Bois: Alfred Jarry, Max Elskamp, and the Uses of the Folkloric Print." Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones, Congres Mondial, Tucson, Arizona, April 15, 1991.
"The Retable as an Artistic Crossroad, Guild Sanctioned Collaboration between the Painters, Joiners, and Carvers of Antwerp," Historians of Netherlandish Art, Cleveland, Oct., 1989.
"The Little Masters and Early Print Collecting," Minneapolis Institute of Arts," February 1989.
"Drink and Drama in Dirk Vellert's Two Etchings of Drummers," Midwest Art History Society, Ann Arbor, March 1987.
"The Antwerp Altarpiece, Some Thoughts on the Guilds Involved in Production," Colloquium "de Retable," Antwerp, April 1983.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS CURATED AND HOSTED
Spencer Museum of Art
2009 Trees & other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture
2009 A Greenland Glacier: The Scale of Climate Change. Photographs by Terry Evans
2008 El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios (organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)
2007 Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground: Xu Bing’ Book Work.
2006 Views of Vietnam
2006 John Steuart Curry: Agrarian Allegories (curated by Kate Meyer)
2006 Cabinets of Curiosity (with interns Joseph Keehn and Medeline Rislow)
2005 Embodiment (with Gitti Salami, Kate Meyer & interns Madeleine Rislow, Brett Knapp & Allison Miller)
2005 Brion Gysin: A Selection of Books and Works on Paper
2005 Discourse on Discovery: Native Perspectives on the Trail (guest curator Joni Murphy)
2005 The Invisible Revealed: Surrealist Drawings from the Drukier Collection (Organized by the Johnson Museum, Cornell).
2005 Selecciones: Mexican Art from the Collection (Kate Meyer)
2004 American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939 (April 3—June 6) (curated by intern Reed Anderson)
2004 A Kansas Sampler (curatorial assistant Kate Meyer)
2004 Windmills to Workshops: Lawrence and the Visual Arts (Kate Meyer)
2004 Conflicting Memories (with Saralyn Hardy, Salina Art Center)
2003 Teaching from Prints: The Legacy of John Talleur
2003 Artists of the "Greatest Generation"
2003 Inspired by Japan (organized by Printroom Assistant Cori Sherman)
2002 Printed Art and Social Radicalism: http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/radicalism/
2002 Shouts from the Wall (organized by Cary Nelson and Peter Carroll for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives)
2002 Goltzius & the Third Dimension (organized by the Sterling & Clark Art Institute)
2001 Japanese Prints from the Collection (organized by Printroom Assistant Cori Sherman)
2001 Sum of the Parts: Recent Works on Paper
2001 Charles L. Marshall: The Artist on Site (organized by Printroom Assistant Cori Sherman)
2001 Alberto Vargas and the Esquire Pinup (with Maria Buszek) http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/print/vargas/
2001 Remembering the Family Farm: 150 Years of American Prints (traveled to the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, University of Iowa Museum of Art, The Crocker Museum of Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, and the Museum of Nebraska Art) http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/farm/
2000 40,000 Years of American Art: The Work of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (organized by intern Joni Murphy)
2000 Artists in Exile (organized by Printroom Assistant Cori Sherman)
2000 Matisse's JAZZ
1999 Dürer's Echo: Five Centuries of Influence
1998 100 Years of Kansas Printmaking
1998 Lithography: A Bicentennial Appreciation (with museum intern Edward Barr)
1997 Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/almanac/
1996 An Eye on Flanders: The Graphic Art of Jules De Bruycker
1994 Sacred and Profane: Two Books in Black and White (co-curated with museum intern Jill Vessely)
1993 Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books ca. 1890 (traveled to the Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent; the Cleveland Museum of Art; and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass.)
1993 Rural America: Prints from the Collection of Steven Schmidt (co-curated with museum intern Bill North)
1992 Keith Haring Prints, William Burroughs Text
1991 Woodcut: A Technical Appreciation
1989 Prints of the 1980s
1989 H.C. Westermann: Sculpture and Graphics
1989 Graphic Art for the Decorative Arts
1988 The World in Miniature: Engravings by the German Little Masters, 1500- 1550 (traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA)
1988 Prairie Printmakers: The Gift Prints. Selections from the Bud and Ruby Jennings Collection. Related site: http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/ppm/
1987 Margo Humphrey, Lithographs
1986-87 Dürer's Master Engravings of 1513-1514
1986-87 The Power of Women
1986 A Flemish Workshop: Understanding a Sixteenth-Century Triptych
Yale University Art Gallery
1984 French Drawings, Acquisitions 1970-1984 (Installation)
1984 Sets & Series, Prints from the Low Countries (traveled to the Spencer Museum of Art, the Duke University Art Gallery, and the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Paper Politics, Seattle Print Arts at Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, Washington (April, 2005)
Shock and Awe Portfolio, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art; Janet Wallace Fine Arts Complex, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota; University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia (2002-2003)
Reactions, Exit Art, New York (January-April 2002)
American Society for the Preservation of Linoleum Block Printing Exchange Portfolio, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska (1999)
CLASSES TAUGHT
Routinely offered:
Prints and Printmakers
Northern Renaissance Art
Problems in Connoisseurship (Western Prints)
Additional class offerings:
Biography of Two Cities: Brussels and Antwerp
Biography of a City: Antwerp
Franklin D. Murphy Seminar (Secular Iconography in Northern Europe)
Image and Text (co-taught with Elizabeth Schultz)
Introduction to Art History
Modern Prints and Drawings
Printmaking: History and Technique (co-taught with John Talleur)
Seminar in Art History: Les XX and the Belgian Avant-garde
The Print in Northern Europe before 1600
SERVICE (excluding departmental service)
2006-2007 Search Committee co/chair, curator or Asian Art, Spencer Museum of Art
2004 Search Committee, Director, Spencer Museum of Art
2001 Panelist: American Print: Production and Consumption, Belger Center, Kansas City
2001 Search Committee, Dean of Libraries
2001 Panelist, Southern Graphics Council, University of Texas, Austin
1999 Campus Intellectual Property Rights Committee
1997-98 Ad Hoc Committee on Intellectual Property Rights
1998 Chair, Astute Center "Quest for the Best" faculty competition
1996-97 Search Committee, Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology
1996-97 Search Committee, Director, Hall Center for the Humanities
1996 Grant reviewer for the Institute of Museum Services
1995-98 Faculty Senate Academic Computing and Telecommunications Committee
1994-1995 Faculty Senate Library Committee
1992-1996 Executive Committee, Hall Center for the Humanities
MISCELLANEOUS
Project Coordinator for the Index to Print Catalogues Raisonné http://www.printcouncil.org/search.html
Participant in "Work Tank / Think Shop: Media for the Next Millennium" at Vinalhaven Press, 1997
List Owner of Prints-L (internet discussion group), and a discussion group for Print Council of America
Maintained museum printroom website 1995-2007: http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/print/
Participant in Faculty Seminar "Technologizing the University," fall 1995
1995-98 Science Fair Committee, Wakarusa Valley Elementary School
Produced 15 minute video The Belgium of Les XX, 1993
Participant in the Hall Center for the Humanities Faculty Seminar on "The Canon," fall, 1992
Elected to the Board of Directors of the Print Council of America, April, 1991
Chaired Session on Prints and Drawings at the 1991 Midwest Art History Society meeting
Chaired Hall Center for the Humanities panel discussion "Committed to Print," University of Kansas, March 1990
Organized Symposium "Graphic Art of the 'Godless Painters of Nuremberg,'" Spencer Museum of Art, Sept. 25, 1988. Speakers: Keith Moxey, Peter Parshall, Alison Stewart, Walter Gibson, Jeffrey Chipps Smith. Edited the proceedings, published in The Spencer Museum of Art Register, 1990
1974-75, enrolled in MFA program in printmaking, University of Iowa
1973-74, Off-campus Residence Advisor, Minneapolis College of Art and Design where I worked extensively in the printmaking workshops
MEMBERSHIPS
American Society for the Preservation of Linoleum Block Printing
Antwerpse Vereniging voor Bodem- en Grotonderzoek
Historians of Netherlandish Art
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
The Print Council of America
The Southern Graphics Council
The Spencer Museum of Art