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Hollis Clayson S. Hollis Clayson (Ph.D. UCLA), Professor of Art History, is a historian of modern art who specializes in 19th-century French painting. She is the author of Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life Under Siege (1870-71) (2002); Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (1991) and co-editor of Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained (2000), forthcoming in French. Her current work centers upon Mary Cassatt and other late 19th-century American expatriate artists in Paris. Clayson has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Kaplan Center for the Humanities, the Clark Art Institute and the Getty Research Institute. She won a WCAS Teaching Award (1987), was the recipient of the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award to a Junior Professor (1990), and held a Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence (1993-96). From 1995 to 1998 she served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School. Clayson served as co-director of Northwestern’s summer program in Arles, has lectured at the American University of Paris and the Musée d'Art Americain Giverny, and has participated in conferences at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Universite de Paris - Nanterre, and the Mona Bismarck Foundation.
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