Donna Cassidy, PhD

Donna Cassidy taught a range of classes in both the Art Department and the American & New England Studies Program over her career at USM—19^th and 20^th century European art, gender and modern art, and the visual culture of the United States. She has published widely on modernism and regionalism in early twentieth-century American art and culture, most notably with her books Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940 (1997) andMarsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation (2005). She was also co-author with Elizabeth Finch and Randall R. Griffey of Marsden Hartley’s Maine (2017), the catalogue of the exhibition which she co-curated at Colby College Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most recently, she has curated two exhibitions at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art—Shifting Sands: Beaches, Bathers, and Modern Maine Art (2023) and Carl Sprinchorn: “All the World Is a Painting” (2026). She is currently working on the forthcoming exhibition Layered Terrain: Art, Land, and Environment in Eastern Canada, 1890-1940 which will be at the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2027-28).