Martha Ward

University of Chicago

April–June 2006

Martha Ward is associate professor of art history at the University of Chicago. She has worked and published on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French painting and its reception, and is the author of Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde (Chicago, 1996) and co-author of A Bibliography of Salon Criticism in Second Empire Paris (Cambridge, 1986). Recently she has concentrated on the history of exhibitions and curating in twentieth-century France, and her work at the Clark will focus on an analysis of curatorial practice and museological discourse from 1920 to 1950.