Discovering Degas Study Day 

28 September 2024
The Burrell Collection, Glasgow

 

PANEL 1: BODIES AND IDENTITIES

 

Prof. Richard Thomson (University of Edinburgh): 'Degas Back to Front'

Pippa Stephenson-Sit (Burrell Collection): 'Almost a Child of Louisiana: Discovering and Discussing Degas’s Links to Slavery and Racism'

 

PANEL 2: PASSING THE TIME/TIME PASSING

 

Prof. Clare A.P. Willsdon (University of Glasgow): 'The Living and the Dead: Degas's Mary Cassatt at the Louvre'

Dr. Kathryn Brown (Loughborough University): 'Repetition, Replication, Remediation: Degas's Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer Through Time'

 

PANEL 3: COLLECTING AND CATALOGUING

 

Dr. Andrew Watson (Open University): 'Louis Huth (1821-1905) and Constantine Alexander Ionides (1833-1900): two important early British collectors of Degas'

Prof. Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh/Scottish National Gallery) 'From Dali to Degas: Audrey James’s collection of modern French paintings'

Teresa Krasny and Dr. Danielle Smith (editors of Degas digital cat. raisonne): 'Cataloguing Degas'

Plenary Lecture

Prof. Robert Lethbridge (University of St. Andrews): 'Degas's Portrait of Duranty in the Burrell Collection'

Illustrated Slides