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Randy J. Ploog
Coordinator of International Programs
College of Arts and Architecture
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History

114 Arts Building
(814) 865-7317
rxp5@psu.edu

Dr. Ploog with Manierre Dawson's
Prognostic, 1910.

Education
Ph.D. in art history (The Pennsylvania State University)
M.A. in art history (University of Iowa)
B.A. in art (University of Northern Iowa)

Dr. Ploog specializes in early twentieth-century American and European art, especially Dada and Surrealism. He first came to Penn State as a curator in the Palmer Museum of Art, where he curated exhibitions of drawings by Benjamin West, paintings by Emile Nolde, and paintings and prints by Florence Putterman, among others. Prior to coming to Penn State in 1986, he curated an exhibition from the collection of Herb and Dorothy Vogel. For the last decade, Dr. Ploog's research has concentrated on Manierre Dawson. He has contributed essays for two exhibition catalogues published by the Hollis Taggart Galleries of New York and Chicago, and an article for Blockpoints (the annual journal and report of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern University). He has also lectured on Dawson at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, Italy), and the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.). He is currently compiling a catalogue raisonné of Dawson's paintings and sculptures.

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