Karen Lucic
Professor of Art
Office: Taylor 214
Phone: 5225
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Karen Lucic joined the Vassar faculty in 1986 and was awarded her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988. Under the name Karen Davies, she curated and wrote the catalogue for an exhibition, "At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression," held at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1983. In 1991 she authored Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine, published by Harvard University Press. She was the curator and wrote the catalogue for "Charles Sheeler in Doylestown: American Modernism and the Pennsylvania Tradition," an exhibition that traveled to the Allentown Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum and the Cincinnati Museum in 1997-98. Lucic has published articles on Edward Hopper, Paul Strand, Winslow Homer, Navajo weaving, and other topics in early twentieth-century American painting, photography and design. She is currently researching the meaning of modern décor in Hollywood films, Stuart Davis and advertising of the 1920s, institutional collecting of Native American art in the Southwest, and landscape design in the Hudson River Valley.