ART HISTORY FACULTY

 

Jessie Poesch
Office: 203 Woldenberg Art Bldg
Phone: (504) 314-2225
email: jpoesch@tulane.edu

Jessie Poesch recently retired as a professor of the history of art at the Newcomb Department of Art of Tulane University. She was one of the guest curators and authors for the exhibition, Painting in the South, organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and shown at five major museums during 1983-1984. Her articles have appeared in The Art Bulletin , and the American Art Journal , among others. Her publications include The Art of the Old South: Painting, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen, 1560-1860 (New York: Knopf, 1983) and Newcomb Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Women- 1895-1940 . Current research includes the artistic career of David Hunter Strother (Porte Crayon), an important 19th century artist/writer for Harper's New Monthly Magazine .

She is co-curator and co-author, with John Cuthbert, of the book/exhibition catalog, David Hunter Strother, "One of the Best Draughtsmen This Country Possesses, " (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1997). This exhibition is scheduled to be shown in six museums during 1907-1998.

With Barbara Bacot, she is co-editor and one of the contributors to Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940, The Historic American Buildings Survey (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997).