In a tradition going back to 1972, the Art History faculty each year awards the Henry Stern Prize to the undergraduate who has written the best paper on an art historical topic. The highlight is the winner’s presentation of the paper to the university community at the end of the academic year. Previous winners and their topics are listed here.
HENRY STERN PRIZE
FOR THE BEST UNDERGRADUATE PAPER IN ART HISTORY
Newcomb Art Department
| YEAR | RECIPIENT |
TITLE OF PAPER |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Rachel Cline | 'She Lives in Vice’: Depreciation of Aztec Cultural Practices Through Images of the Auiani and Noblewomen in the Florentine Codex |
| 2019 | Michael Russo | 'Europeanized and Precious:' Cy Twombly and History in the Post-war Era |
| 2018 | Alyxandra Bailey | David Wojnarowicz: A Fire in My Belly |
| 2017 | Taylor Hochstin | Against the Inferiority of Interiority: Carolee Schneemann's 1975 Performance of 'Interior Scroll' |
| 2016 | Dana Lynch | Jasper Johns' Racing Thoughts |
| 2015 | James Newton | Germanus, Alemanus, Noricus: The Imagined Geographies of Albrecht Dürer 1500-1511 |
| 2014 | Gabrielle Stewart | William de Kooning Decoded: Contextualizing the Late Style |
| 2013 | Rachael Weiss | The Stained Glass of Lincoln Cathedral: Conceptions of the Jews in a Medieval Pilgrimage Church |
| 2012 | Anna Blum | Joan Mitchell and Feminine Subjectivity |
| 2011 | (two recipients) Sopan Mohnot Sean Knapp |
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| 2010 | Rachel M. Granberry | Yoko Ono (exact title unavailable) |
| 2009 | Jena Bourgeois | |
| 2008 | Margaret Floryan | |
| 2007 | Mina Saadat | |
| 2006 | (Not Awarded) | |
| 2005 | Laura Cornell | Re-Reading Eve: The Dual Construction of the First Woman in the Art and Literature of the Middle Ages |
| 2004 | Brad E. Steinecke | The Deadly Prostitute in Manet's Olympia and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon |
| 2003 | (Two recipients) | |
| Ms. Ariane Buglioni | The Relationship Between Aztec Base Reliefs and the Three-Dimensional Stone Sculptures They Adorn | |
| Mr. James Merriman | Richard Prince | |
| 2002 | Not Awarded | |
| 2001 | Ms. Merissa Courtright | The Role of Fashion in Art in the Late 19th Century |
| 2000 | Ms. Lindsey P. Schneider | Antique Sources in Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina |
| 1999 | Ms. Cary K. Robertson | Edouard Manet: A Modern Storyteller |
| 1998 | Ms. Christ T. Stefanski | La Femme of Manet and Degas |
| 1997 | Ms. Mukti Kuhn | Lorna Simpson and the Scopophilic Gaze |
| 1996 | Ms. Melissa McDowell | Women as Spectacle: Issues of Gender in Renoir and Degas |
| 1995 | Ms. Andrea Kate Sheerin | Formalist Reading of a Most Informel Artist: Clement Greenberg on Jean Dubuffet, Jean Dubuffet on Post-War Paris |
| 1994 | Mr. Marty R. Gould | Impressionism and Modernity in Degas and Manet |
| 1993 | Ms. Andrea Mazur | Tarsila Do Amaral: A Modern Brazilian Painter and Her Country |
| 1992 | Ms. Michelle V. Packer | Monet and Morisot at the Seaside |
| 1991 | Ms. Cary Trochesset | A Comparison Between Manet and Goya |
| 1990 | Mr. Bryan Bruno | Aristocratic Idyll and Feminine Display: Renoir's The Loge and At The Concert |
| 1989 | Mr. Joshua R. Fishbein | Mood Captured in Painting and in Literature |
| 1988 | Mr. Bret Gustafson | On the Survival of Indigenous Elements in 16th Century Mexican Atrium Crosses |
| 1987 | Ms. Pamela Ann Geller | Miro's Portrait of a Young Girl vs. Magritte's Rape: A Study of Form and Content in Terms of Freudian Implications |
| 1986 | Ms. Cheryl Ann Watkins | |
| Ms. Jo Sod (runner up) | A Comparison Between Benjamin West's Romeo and Juliet, c. 1778, and his Romance with Elizabeth Shewell | |
| 1985 | Ms. Lisa Happy Fisher | English Glass: Aspects of Trade Between England and America in the 18th and 19th Centuries |
| 19884 | Ms. Ketti Lynn Neil | Escapism: Cultural 'Myths' in France During the Late 18th and 19th Centuries |
| 1983 | Ms. Madeleine M. Grynsztejn | |
| 1982 | Mr. David Lee Carlson | |
| Ms. Suzy Smith (honorable mention) | Topic-The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (exact title unavailable) | |
| 1981 | Mr. William Scoggin | Klimt and Schiele: Transition in Vienna |
| 1980 | Ms. Katherine "Kit" Sharp | Jean Arp and Naum Garbo: A Question of Order |
| 1979 | Ms. Sarah Shields | The Use of Words in Magritte's Work |
| Ms. Jane Cheeseman (runner up) | Louis Sullivan: Architect | |
| 1978 | Ms. Kim Gernsbacher | Stained Glass Windows of New Orleans |
| Ms. Ellen Lee Rodgers | The Relationship of Religion and Art in Mesoamerica | |
| 1977 | Ms. Kathleen Ann Curran | Pietro da Cortona's Pamphili Palace Frescoes |
| Ms. Debra Lyn Ciaravella | Topic- The Influence of Egypt in Furniture making, Particularly Following the Carter Discovery of King Tut's Tomb (exact title unavailable) | |
| 1976 | Ms. Ann W. Bowdler and Ms. Lucille M. Leonowens (jointly awarded) | Catalogue for the Exhibition: Traditional Indian Costume of Guatemala |
| 1975 | Dale Ann Spizer Aronson | The Sculptures of Max Ernst |
| Ms. Mary Elizabeth Holley | Topic- Henri Rousseau: Primitive Folk Artist or Precursor of Modern Art (exact title unavailable) | |
| 1974 | Ms. Elizabeth J. Lindsay | Ukiyo-E:: Le Porte Chinoise Revisited or the Influence of Japanese Art on Impressionism |
| 1973 | (Two recipients) | |
| Ms. Patricia Crosby | Caeretan Vases | |
| Ms. Barbara Sontheimer | Channel Imagery: Domestic Streetscapes | |
| 1972 | Ms. Jean Farnsworth | The 5th Century Interior Mosaics of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome |