Crisis and Convergence:
Explorations in 17th and 18th Century Art
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Ann Jensen Adams
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ann Jensen Adams received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her approaches to her field of 17th-century Dutch art and visual culture has been shaped in part by her undergraduate degree from Radcliffe College in Government, and several years making stained glass windows as a practicing artist. Her primary areas of research are in the areas of the history of science, portraiture, and the role of images in constructing gender identities. Professor Adams has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education and Science, The Netherlands, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Chester Dale Research Fellowship), the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, and the J. Paul Getty Trust; she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute. Her publications include Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland: Portraiture and the Production of Community (Cambridge University Press,2006); editor of New Approaches to Rembrandt: Rembrandt's Bathsheba Reading King David's Letter (Cambridge University Press, 1998); and curator and catalogue author of the exhibition Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings in New York Private Collections, National Academy of Design, New York (1988). In addition to reviews and encyclopedia entries, her articles have appeared in The Art Bulletin, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, and De Zeventiende Eeuw. She has written additional essays for several exhibition catalogues and anthologies in the area of 17th-century Dutch Art. Her current research addresses the relationship of the history of science to 17th-century visual culture and includes a book The Presence of History and the Persistence of Time in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, and an annotated edition of the account book of the Utrecht patrician Carel Martens. Professor Adams has served on the Board of Directors of the Smart Art Museum University of Chicago, the College Art Association Committee on Electronic Information, the Faculty Editorial Board of the University of California Press, as well as the University of California System-wide Faculty Senate. Before teaching at UCSB, Ann Jensen Adams taught at the University of Chicago.
