Diane Radycki

Director of Payne Gallery, Associate Professor

Courses:

Art History Methodology, Criticism and Exhibition Practice; all levels of art history including surveys to and from the Renaissance

Education:

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1993
M.A. Hunter College/CUNY, 1976
B.A. University of Illinois, 1969

Fellowships:

AAUW American Fellow 1991
Fulbright Scholar 1989-91(Germany)

Biographical Listings:

Who’s Who in America
Who’s Who in American Art

Biography:

Dr. Diane Radycki is an art historian specializing in early 20th-century European art and the work of women artists. She is an authority on the work of the German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1876-1907 (translator and editor, The Letters and Journals of Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1980). In 2009 she chaired the session “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Art, Risk and Fame” at the College Art Association conference in Los Angeles.

Among Dr. Radycki's publications, papers and exhibitions on women in art are “American Women Artists in Munich . . . ,” Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes, 2009; “Miriam Brumer,” Wooster Art Space, NYC, 2005; “Rosa Bonheur: All Nature's Children,” Women's Art Journal, Fall 2000, “Pretty / Ugly,” Make (London), Nov 1996; “Töchter of Feminism,” Berkshire Conference paper, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1996; Voices of Women: Critics, Poets, Artists (with Lucy Lippard et.al.), 1990; “Works by Women Artists in the Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums,” Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1987; and “The Life of Lady Art Students: Changing Art Education at the Turn of the Century,” Art Journal, Spring 1982.

Other publications and papers include the forthcoming “Sidney Tillim: A Selected Bibliography;” “The Hudson River and Its Painters,” Different at Every Turn: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River, 2009; “Sidney Tillim Artist/Critic”, College Art Association Conference paper, 2008; “The Material Witness: Politics and Media in Art,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference paper, 2006; “Payne Gallery, Moravian College,” Treasures of the Greater Lehigh Valley, 2003; “Jahrhundertwende,” Deutsche Kunst Des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1982. Previous to her academic career, Dr. Radycki worked at the New York Department of Cultural Affairs and Sotheby's Auction Magazine.