Alfred Joseph Woolmer, Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832), 1833. Oil on canvas. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
Art Institutions and Race in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850
A 2019 conference and forthcoming suite of related essays exploring the role art institutions played in negotiating racial ideologies during the apogee and decline of the transatlantic slave trade.
Conference Website
https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/art-institutions-and-race-in-the-atlantic-world-1750-1850
Publication
“Art Institutions and Race in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850,” co-edited with Catherine Roach and Daryle Williams, Commentaries section for American Art, vol. 36, no. 2 (summer 2022), pgs. 2-45.