Joni Kinsey is Professor of American Art History in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa where she has taught since 1991.  She received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and specializes in landscape painting and theory and art of the American West.  She is the author of Thomas Moran's West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste (University Press of Kansas, 2006), winner of the 2007 Western Heritage Awards Outstanding Art Book Prize from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum; Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996, winner of the Eugene M. Kayden National Book Award for 1996), and Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West (Smithsonian, 1992) as well as many articles and chapters of books.  Among other courses, she teaches a class at the University of Iowa on nineteenth-century American print culture and is currently working on an exhibition of American Etching Revival prints for the University Of Iowa Museum Of Art.
Panel: American Images in Print: Past and Present

Panel: American Images in Print--Past and Present
Topic: Chromos and Controversies in the 1870's: Thomas Moran and Louis Prang's Western Series
(Thursday morning)