William Blake Exhibition Catalog 2022 - Flipbook - Page 34
AUTHOR BIOGR APHIES
SAR AH BURNS
GySgt THOMAS WILLIAMS
JASON PATTERSON
Willia m Bl ak e,
M ar ines at Gett ysburg
Interview with
Winslow Homer, a nd
GySgt Thomas Williams,
the artist
the Long Civil War
a former U.S. Marine
Jason Patterson is an
Sarah Burns (Ph.D.,
Corps Drill Instructor,
African American history
University of Illinois,
Firefighter, and veteran
based artist working in
Urbana-Champaign) is
of the Vietnam War and
portraiture, the recreation
Professor Emeritus of
numerous Marine Corps
of historical documents,
Art History, Indiana
deployments, has spent his
and the designing and
University, Bloomington.
life in military and public service, teaching,
fabrication of stylized
Her publications include
and historical education, contributing over
frames to house his work. Patterson lives
Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture
fifty years of service and support to the
and works in Chestertown on the Eastern
in Gilded Age America (1996), Painting the
Marine Corps and the American people.
Shore of Maryland, where he works with
Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination
GySgt Williams is the Director of the United
students at Washington College, advising
in Nineteenth-Century America (2004), and
States Marine Corps Historical Company and
art students as well as students within the
The Emphatically Queer Career of Artist
has become one of the principle specialists
college’s Starr Center for the Study of the
Perkins Harnly and His Bohemian Friends
in Marine Corps material culture. He has
American Experience. His current work is
(2021). She has also authored numerous essays
worked with such agencies as the National
focused on the Black history of Maryland’s
and articles on American art and artists in
Park Service, the United States Marine Corps
Eastern Shore, and has been supported by
journals and exhibition catalogues. She is
History and Museums Division, the United
Chesapeake Heartland: An African American
always happiest when thinking and writing
States Army Center of Military History,
Humanities Project.
about anything pertaining to Winslow
The United States Marine Corps Heritage
Homer, her number one, all-time great
Foundation, and numerous National Trust and
nineteenth-century American painter.
State Park sites, as well as the film industry.
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