Faculty
Lisa Dorrill
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
B.A., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1988
M.A., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1989
Ph.D., University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1998
dorrilll@dickinson.edu
Prior to Dickinson, Lisa Dorrill taught at Gettysburg College, Shippensburg University, and the University of Kansas. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1998 earning a Ph.D. with Distinction in Art History.
Topics of Research Interest:
From Photo to Finish: The Influence of W.P.A. Photographs on Paintings of the New Deal.
Luigi Lucioni and Photorealism of the 1930s: Adored by the Public, Despised by the Critics.
Albert Abramowitz's Death Series.
Contemporary Environmental Art.
Selected Recent Publications:
Editor, The Seven Lively Artists: A Brief History, in The Seven Lively Artists: Fifty Years of Art, exh.cat., Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, PA (2006).
Selected essays in American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (2006).
Selected essays in Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum Collection of American Art, exh. cat., Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, October 1997-January 1998.
Illustrating the Ideal City: American Bird's-Eye Views of the Nineteenth Century, Imprint (Fall 1993): 21-31.
Presentations:
2006 "The Seven Lively Artists: A Brief History", Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, PA.
2005 "Sears Mail-Order Modern Homes", Fortnightly Club, Carlisle, PA.
2003 "Architecture that Speaks: Daniel Libeskind and the Rebuilding of the World Trade Center." Fortnightly Club, Carlisle, PA.
2002 "From Old Mooreland to New Urbanism: Recreating a Sense of Community in American Cities." Fortnightly Club, Carlisle, PA.
1997 "'Colorizing' the Great Depression: The Influence of Photographs on Paintings and Prints of the 1930s." Southeastern College Art Conference, Richmond, VA.
1997 "American Art of the 1930s: Social Realism and Regionalism." Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.
1996 "Michelangelo and Rodin." Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.