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Mary Ellen Abell

 
     
Associate Professor of Visual Arts
Chair Visual Art Department
Ph. D., City University of New York
M.A., New York University
B.A., Miami University, Ohio
Areas of specialization: 20th century American art
   
 
Awards:
  • Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, Italy, March-April 2002
  • Scholarship, CUNY Graduate Center, 1994-1995
  • For curating “Best Historical Monographic Museum Exhibition in New England in 2007,” presented by the International Art Critics Association (USA section)
Lectures:
  • "The Teaching and Critical Reception of Edwin Dickinson," CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, 2011
  • “The Beginning of the Provincetown Art Colony: 1900-1930,” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • “Charles W. Hawthorne and Provincetown,” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 2009
  Professional Affiliations:
  • Association of Historians of American Art
  • College Art Association
  • Foundation in Art: Theory and Education
Publications:
  • “Edwin Dickinson in Provincetown: Art in a Fishing Village,” Edwin Dickinson In Provincetown 1912-1937 (exhibition catalogue). Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 2007: 10-41
  • “Seeing Everything for the First Time: The Teaching and Aesthetic Philosophy of Edwin Dickinson” and “The Teaching of Edwin Dickinson: An Overview and Glossary,” Edwin Dickinson Dreams and Realities, edited by Karen Spaulding. Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, in conjunction with the Albright-Knox Gallery, 2002: 77-89
   
         
 
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