Scholars have long pointed to 1908 as a watershed year for the development of American modernism because of the revolutionary exhibition of sixty-three paintings by “The Eight” held in February at the Macbeth Gallery in New York. American Students’ Census, Paris 1903 (n.p.: Printed by Louella B. 1, Corner View, American Art Association of Paris, Souvenir of the Louisiana Purchase. Her research has been funded by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Baird Library Society of Fellows, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. She has completed extensive research about American artists’ clubs in Paris and is currently developing a book manuscript on the visual culture of the American West in the French imagination during the fin-de-siècle. Her dissertation, “Innocence Abroad: The Construction and Marketing of an American Artistic Identity in Paris, 1890–1910,” explores American artists’ performances of cultural belatedness in response to French expectations about American culture. She holds a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Washington University in St. Her research considers Franco-American artistic and cultural exchange in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Burns is Assistant Professor of Art History at Auburn University.
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