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Sarah K. Rich
Associate Professor of Art History

227 Arts Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-4876
skr10@psu.edu

Education
Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. in history of art (Yale University)
B.A. in art history and comparative literature (Northwestern University)

Dr. Rich specializes in art after 1940, with particular emphasis on abstract painting produced in the United States during the Cold War era. Her publications on Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, Gene Davis, Jo Baer and others have appeared in American Art, Artforum and Art Bulletin, as well as in many exhibition catalogs and compendia of essays. She has recently delivered papers at the MIT, Yale University, Harvard University and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Research for her current book project about post-painterly abstraction has been supported by grants from the Getty Research Institute as well as by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Recently Dr. Rich has also taken an interest in French postwar art; her article on the butterfly collages of Jean Dubuffet appeared in October magazine early in 2007, and her article about Francois Dallegret's “astrological designs” in the 1960s is scheduled to appear in the Oxford Art Journal in the autumn of 2007.

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