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Robert Saltonstall Mattison
Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History
Department of Art
Lafayette College

EDUCATION –

  • Ph.D., Princeton University, 1985
    Dissertation:  “The Art of Robert Motherwell during the 1940s”
  • M.F.A., Princeton University, 1979
  • M.A., Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, 1977
  • B.A., Middlebury College, 1974

PUBLICATIONS –

Books:

    • Franz Kline Paintings, 1950-1962, Catalogue Raisonnè, Director and Author, Hauser & Wirth Institute, 2018-present
  • Ronald Bladen: Sculpture. Abbeville Press, 2019
  • Franz Kline: Coal and Steel, Allentown Art Museum, October, 2012, Baruch College, New York City 2013.
  • Theodore Stamos: A Communion with Nature, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, 2010.
  • Arshile Gorky: Works, Writings, Ediciones Poligrafa, 2010.
  • Robert Rauschenberg:  Breaking Boundaries, Yale University Press, 2004.
  • Masterworks:  Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella in the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1995.
  • Grace Hartigan:  A Painter’s World, Hudson Hills Press, Inc., New York, 1990
  • Robert Motherwell:  The Formative Years, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, 1987

 

  • Articles, Entries, and Exhibition Catalogues:
    • “Grace Hartigan: The Female Gaze,” in Grace Hartigan: Great Women (exhibition catalog) Lafayette College Art Galleries, 2023.
    • “Robert Motherwell 1979-1980: Recollections and Ideas,” Dedalus Foundation (2023, https://dedalusfoundation.org).
    • “Roberto Matta’s Les Temoins de l’univers: An Extraterrestial Parable,” Roberto Matta (Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich and New York, 2023)
    • “Roberto Matta, “Out of Alisma: An Inner Journey,” Roberto Matta (Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich and New York, 2023).
    •  “Joan Miró: Intuition and Metamorphosis” (essay), Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich and New York, 2021
    • “Arnulf Reiner: Paintings, Drawings, Books” (essay), Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich and New York, 2021
    • “Roberto Matta, Odisseano: A Voyage” Roberto Matta (Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich and New York, 2023).
    • Emil Lukas: Walking the Earth (exhibition catalog), Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, 2020 
    • Thom Cooney Crawford: The Inner Eye (exhibition catalog), Nurture Nature Foundation, 2019
    • Stephen Antonakos: Late Light (exhibition catalog), Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, 2019
    • Joel Perlman: The Color of Metal (exhibition catalog), Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, 2019
    • Carol Brown Goldberg: Entanglement (exhibition catalog), American University, Washington, D.C. 2018.
    • Thomas Chimes: Alchemy Machine (exhibition catalog), Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 2018.
    • Grace Hartigan: Allegorical Intent (exhibition catalog), ACA Gallery, New York City, 2017
      • Expanding Space: Ronald Bladen, Al Held, Yvonne Rainer, and George Sugarman (exhibition catalog), Loretta Howard Gallery 2017.
      • Shared Sensibilities: Perle Fine and Marguerite Louppe (exhibition catalog), Albright College 2017.
      • “Frank Stella: Vortices, Turbulence and Chaos Theory,” SciArt in America, February 2016.
      • Alert!: The Recent Art of Hasan Elahi (exhibition catalog), C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, 2016.
      • Robert Rauschenberg: Making Tracks (exhibition catalog) Jim Kempner Fine Arts, New York, 2015.
      • Emil Lukas: Ringing of Distant Events (exhibition catalog) Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, 2015.
      • “William Baziotes: Works on Paper,” (exhibition catalog) Allentown Art Museum, 2015.
      • “Brandon Ballengée: Art, Science, Activism,” (book chapter) From Scales to Feathers: The Avian Art Works of Brandon Ballengée, Shropshire Museum and Art Gallery, England, 2015.
      • Heroines: Audrey Flack’s Transcendent Drawings and Prints (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College Art Galleries and Hyde Art Museum, New York 2015.
      • Audrey Flack: The Abstract Expressionist Years (exhibition catalog), Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, 2015.
      • William Baziotes: The Surrealist Watercolors (exhibition catalog), Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 2015
      • Why Nature? Hofmann, Mitchell, Pousette-Dart and Stamos (exhibition and catalog), Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, 2014.
      • “Grace Hartigan: A Survey 1966-2007” (exhibition and catalog), Strathmore Art Foundation, Baltimore, 2014.
      • “Robert Motherwell’s Early Collages,” (exhibition review) Journal of College Art Association, May 2014.
      • Bill Scott: In Arcadia,” Bill Scott: Recent Paintings (New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2013).
      • “Robert Rauschenberg: Sleep for Yvonne Rainer,” The Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Getty Foundation, 2013.
      • “Robert Rauschenberg: Pyramid Series,” The Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Getty Foundation, 2013.
      • Nestor Armando Gil: Sailing to a Distant Shore (exhibition catalog), Grossman Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Fall 2012.
      • Black Mountain College and It’s Legacy, (exhibition catalog on thirty-six artists), Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, September 15-October 29, 2011.
      • “Terry Winters: A New Description of Nature,” (exhibition catalog), Williams Visual Art Building, Lafayette College, 2011
      • Terry Winters: Paintings and Drawings, Williams Art Center Gallery, Lafayette College, 2011.
      • Helen Frankenthaler: Paper Is Painting, (exhibition catalog),
        Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 2010.
      • “Grace Hartigan: A Memory,” Grace Hartigan:  A Life in Painting, Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, 2010.
      • “Brandon Ballengee: Art, Science, Activism,” (exhibition catalog),
        Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College, 2009.
      • “Dancing on the Edge: Robert Rauschenberg and Trisha Brown,” Artpix, 2009.
      • “William T. Williams: Theme and Variation,” (exhibition catalog),
        William T. Williams, Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College 2009.
      • “Stephen Antonakos: The Power of Light,” (exhibition essay),
        Allentown Art Museum, September-January 2008. Site curator for retrospective exhibition.
      • “Robert Rauschenberg” in Robert Rauschenberg Ctitica e Obra de 1949 a 1974, edited Bruno Marchand (Publico Serralves: Lisbon, Portugal, 2008), 51-57.
      • “Robert Rauschenberg’s Environmental Activism,” in Last Turn/Your Turn: Robert Rauschenberg and the Environmental Crisis, (exhibition catalog), Jacobson Howard Gallery, NYC, Spring 2008.
      • “Robert Motherwell’s Opens in Context,” Motherwell’s Opens, (exhibition catalog), Jacobson Gallery, London, 2009.
      • “A Way of Knowing: The Recent Art of Karina Skvirsky,”
        Karina Agilera Skvirsky: North-East-South, (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College, Spring 2008.
      • “Curlee Holton: In the Studio/In the World,”Tellin’ It Like It Is: The Art of Curlee Raven Holton, 2007.
      • “Amour d’Armor: Fear, Fashion and Fantasy in the New Age,”Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Spring 2007
      • “After Image: Op Art of the 1960s,” (exhibition catalog),
        Jacobson Howard Gallery, NYC, Spring 2007
      • Introductory Essay, Imagine: Poets and Painters of the New York School, (exhibition catalog), Lubin House of Syracuse University, NYC, 2007
      • “Lichtenstein and Monet: The Reflections” (exhibition catalog), Roy Lichtenstein Water Lilies, Jacobson Howard Gallery, NYC, summer 2006
      • “Research Notes on Grace Hartigan” Courant , 4 (Spring 2006)
      • “Pop Goes the Press” (essay as exhibition curator on Andy Warhol), Allentown Art Museum, summer 2006
      • “Ibram Lassaw: The Poetics of Sculpture” On Edge 5 (Fall 2006)
      • “Language as Image in Modern Art” The Painted Word, (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College, 2005
      • Richard Pousette-Dart in the Context of Abstract Expressionism” (book chapter) Richard Pousette-Dart: The New York School and Beyond (Skira Press, 2005)
      • “Here and There, Now:  Six Artists in Japan,” (exhibition catalog), Sochi Gallery, Tokyo, and Howard Scott Gallery, New York City, 2003
      • “Ursula von Rydingsvard:  Intensity of Purpose,” (exhibition catalog), The Richard and Rissa Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, 2003
      • “Made By Nature:  Michele Brody, Hope Ginsburg, Monika Kulicka, Emil Lucas, Howard Schwartzberg, Jim Toia, Yukinori Yanagi,” (exhibition curator and catalog) Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, September 8-October 27, 2002
      • “Jim Toia:  Collaborating with Nature,” (exhibition catalog),
        Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey, March 3-April 28, 2002
      • “Frank Stella:  The Exotic Birds,” (exhibition catalog),The Richard and Rissa Grossman Art Gallery, Williams Visual Arts Building, Lafayette College, February 5-March 9, 2002
      • “Larry Miller:  Either/Or,” (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College, 2001, np
      • “The Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College:  Selections from the Collection, ”The Artists Image Resource at Foreland Street, Pittsburgh, PA, May 26 – June 23, 2001, (exhibition catalog).
      • “Micaela Amato:  A Healing Garden,” Women’s Art Journal 22.1 (Spring/Summer 2001), 40-44
      • “Sam Gilliam,” (exhibition catalog), The Richard and Rissa Grossman Art Gallery, Williams Visual Arts Building, January 25-February 25, 2001
      • “Robert Motherwell,” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, volume 3 (1991-93), 384-6
      • “Frank Stella’s Imaginary Places:  Vortices, Turbulence, and Chaos Theory,” (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College Art Gallery, March 20-April 30, 2000
      • “Six Abstract Artists at the Millennium,” (exhibition catalog), Dorsky Gallery, New York City
        “Sources and Meanings,” Curlee Holton:  Visual Rhythms, (exhibition catalog), Soho Creative, New York, 1999
      • “Gregory Gillespie:  Unspeakable Mysteries,” (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College, 1999, np
      • “Bodo Korsig:  Rememberances,” Bodo Korsig:  Fate, (Trier:  Bastian-Druck), pp. 6-11
      • “Robert Rauschenberg’s Autobiography:  Context and Meaning,”Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, vol. 59, 1998, pp. 297-305
      • “Franz Kline:  Sources for the Early and Mature Works in Coal Region Imagery,” The New Arts Journal 20 (Spring 1998)
      • Philip Guston and Modern Anxiety:  The Last Works, (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College, 1998
      • Al Loving:  Vision and Metaphor, (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College, 1997
      • Curlee Raven Holton:  Ten Years of Printmaking, (exhibition catalog), Lock Haven University, 1997
      • Richard Anuszkiewicz:  Sources and Meaning, (exhibition catalog), Appalachian State University, 1997
      • “Richard Anuszkiewicz in Context,” Cleveland Artistic Heritage, 1997
      • “William Baziotes,” The MacMillan Dictionary of Art, 1996
      • “David Hare,” The Macmillan Dictionary of Art, 1996
      • “Grace Hartigan,” The Macmillan Dictionary of Art, 1996
      • “Robert Motherwell,” The MacMillan Dictionary of Art, 1996
      • “Andy Warhol,” The MacMillan Dictionary of Art, 1996
      • Robert Motherwell’s Wall Painting with Graffitti,(exhibition catalog), Allentown Art Museum, 1996
      • Robert Rauschenberg:  Breaking Boundaries/Selected Prints from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, (exhibition catalog), Art Gallery, Lafayette College, 1994
      • Ed Kerns:  Complexity, (exhibition catalog), M-13 Gallery, New York, 1994
      • Thom Cooney Crawford:  The Archetypal Image, (exhibition catalog), Ramnarine Gallery, Long Island City, 1993
      • Vahe Haroutunian:  Recent Sculpture, (exhibition catalog), Ramnarine Gallery, Long Island city, 1992
      • Lafayette College Architecture:  In Context, Skillman Library, Lafayette College, 1991
      • Grace Hartigan:  Anatomy Lessons, (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College, 1990
      • “Hans Hofmann,” International Dictionary of Art and Artists, Chicago and London, St. James Press, 1990, pp. 389-90
      • “Hans Hofmann Effervescence,” International Dictionary of Art and Artists, pp. 944-45
      • “Franz Kline,” International Dictionary of Art and Artists, pp. 437-39
      • “Franz Kline’s Chief, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, pp. 960-61
      • “Robert Motherwell,” International Dictionary of Art and Artists, pp. 572-74
      • “Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic,” International Dictionary of Art and Artists, pp. 968-69
      • “Andy Warhol,” International Dictionary of Art and Artists, pp. 890-92
      • “Andy Warhol’s Gold Marilyn, ”International Dictionary of Art and Artists, pp. 890-92
      • “Robert Motherwell’s First Collages:  ‘All my Life I have been Obsessed by Death’,” Studies in Iconography, volume 12 (1989), pp. 171-86
      • Grace Hartigan:  Four Decades of Painting, (exhibition catalog), Kouros Gallery, New York, 1989
      • “Grace Hartigan,”  The Figurative Fifties:  New York Figurative Expressionism, Newport Harbor Art Museum and Pennsylvania Academy of Art, 1988
      • Michael Goldberg, (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College, 1987
      • Grace Hartigan:  Paintings of the Seventies, (exhibition catalog), Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, 1987
      • Signs and Symbols:  The Art of Joseph Haske, (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College, 1987
      • Grace Hartigan:  Painting the Renaissance,(exhibition catalog), Greunebaum Gallery, New York, 1986
      • “A Voyage:  Robert Motherwell’s Earliest Works, ”
        Arts Magazine, volume 59, number 5 (January 1985), pp. 90-3
      • “Grace Hartigan:  Painting Her History,” Arts Magazine, volume 59, number 6 (February 1985), pp. 66-72
      • Grace Hartigan:  Six Paintings, (exhibition catalog), Lafayette College, 1983
      • “The Emperor of China:  Symbols of Power and Vulnerability in the Art of Robert Motherwell, ”Art International, volume 25, number 9/10, (November/ December 1982), pp. 8-14
      • “Two Decades of Graphic Art by Robert Motherwell,”The Print Collector’s Newsletter, volume 11, number 6 (January 1981), pp. 197-201
      • George Inness:  Watercolors and Drawings, (exhibition catalog), Davis and Long Gallery, New York, 1979
      • Essays and entries in Rubens and the Book, edited by Julius Held, exhibition catalogue, Williams College, 1977
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      EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED –

      • George Inness: Watercolors and Drawings, 1978
      • Grace Hartigan, 1983
      • The Architecture of Arata Isozaki, 1985
      • Mies van der Rohe:  Architecture and Furniture Designs, 1985
      • Joseph Haske Paintings, 1987
      • Michael Goldberg Paintings, 1988
      • Grace Hartigan Anatomy Lesson paintings, 1990
      • Abstract Expressionist Prints, 1991
      • Robert Rauschenberg Prints, 1994
      • Roy Lichtenstein Prints, 1995
      • Richard Anuszkiewicz, 1996
      • Robert Venturi:  Signs of Fun, 1997
      • Nam June Paik, 1997
      • Philip Guston:  The Last Works, 1998
      • Gregory Gillespie, 1999
      • Nam June Paik, 1999
      • Six Abstract Artists at the Millennium, 2000
      • Frank Stella’s Imaginary Places, 2000
      • Ann Hamilton:  Works in Vitrines, 2000
      • Sam Gilliam, (co-curated), 2001
      • Nancy Graves:  The Time Pieces, (co-curated), 2001
      • Larry Miller:  Either/Or, 2001
      • Frank Stella:  The Exotic Birds, 2002
      • Experiments in Art and Technology:  A History, 2002
      • Made By Nature, Long Island City, 2002
      • Thomas Nostowski Paintings, (co-curated), 2002
      • Ursula von Rydingsvard, 2003
      • Edward Weston:  A Retrospective, Allentown Art Museum  2003
      • Here and There, Now, Tokyo and New York, 2003
      • The Painted Word, Lafayette College, 2005
      • Andy Warhol: A to B, Allentown Art Museum, 2006
      • Pop Goes the Press, Allentown Art Museum, 2006
      • Roy Lichtenstein: The Water Lilies, Jacobson Howard, NYC, 2006
      • After Image: Op Art of the 1960s, Jacobson Howard, NYC, 2007
      • Amour d’Armor: Fear Fashion and Fantasy, 2007
      • Crash: Graffiti and East Village Art, 2008
      • Stephen Antonakos Retrospective, Allentown Art Museum, 2008
      • William T. Williams, Lafayette College, 2009
      • New Visions: Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art. 2009-2010, Allentown Art Museum, Lafayette College, Lehigh University
      • Chakaia Booker: Energy Made Visible, Lafayette College, 2010
      • Peter Grippe: A Personal Vocabulary, Allentown Art Museum, 2010.
      • Christo and Jeanne Claude: Through the Gates and Over the River, Lafayette College, co-curated, 2010.
      • Terry Winters: Paintings and Drawings, Lafayette College, 2011.
      • Black Mountain College and It’s Legacy, exhibition catalog on thirty-six artists, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, September 15 – October 29, 2011.
      • Franz Kline: Coal and Steel, Allentown Art Museum, 2012, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, 2013
      • Why Nature?: Hofmann, Mitchell, Pousette-Dart and Stamos, Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2014
      • Audrey Flack: Heroines, Lafayette College, 2015
      • William Baziotes: The Surrealist Watercolors, Allentown Art Museum, 2015
      • Audrey Flack: The Abstract Expressionist Years, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, 2015
      • Buckminster Fuller: Inventor, Engineer, Architect, Artist, Lafayette College, 2017
      • Expanding Space: Ronald Bladen, Al Held, Yvonne Rainer and George Sugarman, Loretta Howard Gallery, NYC, 2017
      • Grace Hartigan: Great Women, Lafayette College Art Galleries, 2023

      List of public lectures on request.

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    • Artists Residencies Directed:
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    • Dorothea Rockburne 1992
    • Faith Ringgold, 1993
    • Robert Beauchamp 1994
    • Richard Anuszkwiecz 1995
    • Elizabeth Murray 1996
    • Leon Golub 1997
    • Gregory Gillespie 1999
    • Ann Hamilton 2000
    • Sam Gilliam 2001
    • Frank Stella 2002
    • Ursula von Rydingsvard 2003
    • Stephen Antonakos 2004
    • Fred Wilson 2005
    • Glenn Ligon 2007
    • Xu Bing 2008
    • Kay Walkingstick 2009
    • Chakaia Booker 2010
    • Terry Winters 2011
    • William Pope L 2012
    • Audrey Flack 2015
    • Judy Pfaff 2016
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    • HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS –

      • Mary Louise Van Artsdalen Faculty Research Award, 2011
      • Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award, 2010
      • Daniel L. Golden ’34 Faculty Service Award, 2008
      • Thomas Roy and Laura Forrest Jones Award
        Lafayette College, 2002 (voted by senior faculty for excellence in research and teaching)
      • Faculty Research Fellowship
        Lafayette College, 2002
      • The Sears-Roebuck Award for Superior Scholarship and Teaching
        Lafayette College, 1991
      • Faculty Research Fellowship
        Lafayette College, 1990
      • Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Lecture
        Lafayette College, 1988
      • Sloan Workshop in Engineering Methodology
        Lafayette College, 1987
      • Junior Faculty Leave
        Lafayette College, 1986
      • Faculty Research Fellowship
        Lafayette College, 1985
      • Sloan Grant (for development of course of architectural structure and design)
        Lafayette College, 1985
      • Senior Colloquium Development Grant (for participation in development of Art and Politics between the Wars)
        Lafayette College, 1984
      • Samuel Kress Fellowship for Dissertation Research
        Princeton University, 1980
      • Kress Fellowship
        Williams College, 1977
      • Graduate Fellowship
        Williams College, 1975-77
      • Departmental High Honors
        Middlebury College, 1974
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      TEACHING –

      • 1981-86                              Instructor and Assistant Professor, Lafayette College
      • 1987-94                              Associate Professor with tenure, Lafayette College
        1989-96                              Head, Department of Art, Lafayette College
      • 1995-2001                         Professor, Lafayette College
      • 2001-present                     Marshall R. Metzgar Professor Art History, Lafayette College
      • 2002-5 and 2008-10       Head, Art Department, Lafayette College
      • 2007-2015                    Curator-at-Large of Modern and Contemporary Art, Allentown art Museum
      • Founder Grossman Visiting Artists Program
      • Co-Founder Minor in Architectural Studies 
      • 1996-present            Senior Lecturer, Art Horizons International, conducting national and international cultural tours with museum
        groups.  Behind-the-scenes art, architecture, and history
        in the following locations:  New York, Chicago, Los
        Angeles, Boston, Hudson River Valley, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Vienna.

       

      COURSES TAUGHT –

      • Introduction to Art History II  (Renaissance to Modern)
      • History of Architecture I  (Ancient to Medieval)
      • History of Architecture II  (Renaissance to Modern)
      • Arts of the Americas
      • Nineteenth Century Global European Art
      • Modern Art: Global Connections
      • Senior Seminar:  Art Since Mid-Century
      • Senior Seminar:  Picasso
      • Senior Seminar:  Abstract Expressionism
      • Senior Seminar: Themes in Contemporary Art (2010-2020)
      • Senior Colloquium:  The Urban Future
      • Senior Colloquium:  Architectural Structure and Design (with Engineering Department)
      • 1989, co-led trip to USSR and lectured on American art and architecture at University of Kishinev
      • 1990-96, co-led January semester in Vienna to study Fin-de-Siecle Art
      • 2010-11 Turkey: Cradle of Civilization, co-led January semester in Turkey
      • Rothkopf Overseas Study: Vienna (2009 and 2015)
      • Rothkopf Overseas Study: Paris and Provence (2013)
      • Rothkopf Overseas Study: London (2016)
      • Rothkopf Overseas Study: Berlin (2018)
      • Freshman Year Seminar:  Perception
      • Senior Seminar:  New Artists/New Media (Performance, Installation, Video, and Web Art.)Someone is Watching: Art and Surveillance in the Late Modern Era