Elizabeth Hutchinson

Elizabeth W. Hutchinson is Tow Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research is centered on the relationship between the visual culture of various North American groups and its viewers. Key issues motivating her work include visuality and modernity, transculturation in the arts of the Americas, and comparative analyses of the visual culture of the United States and other colonial cultures. She has written extensively on how Native Americans used ...See more

Elizabeth W. Hutchinson is Tow Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research is centered on the relationship between the visual culture of various North American groups and its viewers. Key issues motivating her work include visuality and modernity, transculturation in the arts of the Americas, and comparative analyses of the visual culture of the United States and other colonial cultures. She has written extensively on how Native Americans used "modern" art to negotiate a place for themselves within industrial culture at the turn of the twentieth century. She is the author of The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism and Transculturation in Native American Art, 1890-1915 (2009). She has received support for her work from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and Winterthur. See less