KATHRYN BRUSH

Kathryn Brush, FRSC, is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). Her research and publications focus on European medieval art and architecture, the history of museums and collecting, the historiography of the discipline of art history, and medievalism.

University Education

Ph.D.               Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 1987 (Art History)

M.A.               Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 1982 (Art History)

B.A.                 McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, 1978 (Art History and German), summa cum laude

Participation in undergraduate and graduate student exchange and research programs at the Université de Poitiers, the Universities of Göttingen, Cologne, Kiel, and Rostock, and at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich

University Appointments

Distinguished University Professor Emerita, University of Western Ontario, 2018-

Full Professor (Art History), Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario, 2004-  2017; Associate Professor, 1994-2004; Assistant Professor, 1987-1994

Recent Awards, Honours, and Grants

-Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 2018 (Institut für Kunst- und

Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

-Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research, University of Western Ontario, 2017

-Distinguished University Professor, 2017-

-Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2015- 
-Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 2014 (Institut für Kunst- und

Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

-Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Western Ontario, 2013

-Graham and Gail Wright Distinguished Scholar Award, Faculty of Arts and Humanities,

University of Western Ontario, 2010-2011

-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grants, 2009-

2013; 1995-1999; and 1991-1994

-Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Art Museums, 2007-2008

Publications

Books

Arthur Kingsley Porter’s Pilgrimage to Romanesque Art: From Frontier to Modernity, ca. 1900-1933 (monograph in writing stage)

Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier (London, Ontario: Museum London and The McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, 2010), 172 pages (editor)

Vastly More Than Brick and Mortar: Reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s (Cambridge, Mass., and New Haven: Harvard University Art Museums and Yale University Press, 2003), 231 pages

The Shaping of Art History: Wilhelm Vöge, Adolph Goldschmidt, and the Study of Medieval Art (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996; reissued 2010), 263 pages

 Artistic Integration in Gothic Buildings (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), 348 pages (co-editor)

Selected Recent Articles

“Arthur Kingsley Porter and the North American Reception of Wilhelm Vöge’s Scholarship,” Kontinente der Kunstgeschichte. Der Kunsthistoriker Wilhelm Vöge, ed. Leonhard Helten, Hans W. Hubert, Olaf Peters, and Guido Siebert, Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte Sachsen-Anhalts, 19 (Halle/Saale: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2019): 106-123.

 “Carl Georg Heise and the USA: New Perspectives on the History of Harvard’s Germanic Museum and Lübeck’s Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte,” Marburger Jahrbuch  für Kunstwissenschaft 45 (2018): 7-60.

 “Medieval Art Through the Camera Lens: The Photography of Arthur Kingsley Porter and Lucy Wallace Porter,” Visual Resources: An International Journal on Images and Their Uses, 33:3-4 (2017): 252-294.

 “Adolph Goldschmidt und Arthur Kingsley Porter. Vergleichende Corpuswerkforschung in Deutschland und Amerika vor 1933,” Atlanten des Wissens. Adolph Goldschmidts Corpuswerke 1914 bis heute, ed. Kai Kappel, Claudia Rückert and Stefan Trinks (Berlin and Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2016): 62-83.       

“Bernard Berenson and Arthur Kingsley Porter: Pilgrimage Roads to I Tatti,” Bernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage, ed. Joseph Connors and Louis A. Waldman (Florence: Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2014): 249-268.

“Arthur Kingsley Porter et la genèse de sa vision de Cluny,” Cluny après Cluny: Constructions, reconstructions, commémorations, 1790-2010, ed. Didier Méhu (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013): 209-222.

 “Naumburg und Cluny—Vergleichende Internationalitätsbegriffe in der europäischen und amerikanischen Kunstwissenschaft um 1920,” Der Naumburger Meister: Bildhauer und Architekt im Europa der Kathedralen, vol. 3, ed. Holger Kunde and Hartmut Krohm (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2012): 24-41.