Betsy Fahlman
A specialist in Euro-North American art history, Professor Fahlman's research spans the late nineteenth century to 1945. She has strong interests in women artists, American modernism (including the history of photography), the relationships between American Art and industry, and the art history of the American Southwest (including Arizona).
Dr. Fahlman is a professor of art history at Arizona State University, where she has taught since 1988. She did her undergraduate work at Mount Holyoke College, and graduate work at the University of Delaware, where she earned her master's and doctoral degrees. A specialist in American Art, her interests include public art, American modernism, the New Deal, industrial archeology and the art history of Arizona. Her books include "Kraushaar Galleries: Celebrating 125 Years" (2010), "New Deal Art in Arizona" (2009), "Wonders of Work and Labor: The Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art" (2008), "James Graham & Sons: A Century and a Half in the Art Business" (2007), "Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster" (2007) and "Guy Pène du Bois: Painter of Modern Life" (2004).
Education
PhD, University of Delaware, 1981
MA, University of Delaware, 1977
BA, Mount Holyoke College, 1973
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Publications
Kraushaar Galleries: Celebrating 125 Years (New York: Kraushaar Galleries, 2010).
New Deal Art in Arizona (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009).
Fahlman, Betsy and Eric Schruers, Wonders of Work and Labor: The Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art (University Park, PA: Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, 2008; distributed by Pennsylvania State University Press).
Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster (Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 2007).
James Graham & Sons: A Century and a Half in the Art Business (New York: James Graham & Sons, 2007).
“The Art Spirit in the Classroom: Educating the Modern Woman Artist,” in Marian Wardle, ed., American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945 (Provo, Utah, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University in association with New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 93-115, 245-246.
“The Engines of Art: The Railroad as Cultural Icon,” Railroad Heritage, no. 14 (2005): 5-11 (Proceedings of the "Iron Icon: The Railroad in American Art." symposium held at the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, University of Missouri, St. Louis).
Guy Pène du Bois: Painter of Modern Life (New York: James Graham and Sons, 2004 and New York: The Quantuck Lane Press [a Norton subsidiary], 2004).