Donna M. Cassidy
cassidy@usm.maine.edu
(207) 780-4940 ANES
(207) 780-5459 Art
Fall 2009 Office Hours
Monday 2:00-3:30 Gorham Tuesday 2:00-3:30 Portland
other times by appointment
Donna M. Cassidy is Professor of American & New England Studies and Art History at the University of Southern Maine. Her articles on early twentieth-century American art and culture have appeared in Smithsonian Studies in American Art, American Art Journal, Winterthur Portfolio, and numerous anthologies and exhibition catalogues. She is the author of Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997) and Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation (University Press of New England, 2005). A scholar of New England art, she served as editor for the art section of the Encyclopedia of New England (Yale University Press, 2005), and her essay “Picturing Place: Portland and the Visual Arts” appears in Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England, edited by Joseph Conforti (University Press of New England, 2005). Her new research projects are Beyond the Northern Border: American Artists in Quebec and Atlantic Canada 1890-1940 (a book and exhibition in the planning stage) and Ex-centric Expatriates: American Modernist Artists in Provence, a book-in-progress.
