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ContactEdward J. Sullivan
Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art; Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences


Research interests:

Latin American art, colonial and modern periods;
Iberian art, art of the Caribbean, Brazilian art


Sample courses:

Abstractions in the Americas
Surrealism in the Caribbean and Mexico
Modernism in Latin America
Caribbean Art
Arts of Brazil
Mexican Painting 1875-1950


Selected publications:

The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Continental Shifts: the Art of Edouard Duval Carrie. Arte al Dia, 2007.

Fragile Demon: Juan Soriano in Mexico 1935-1950.Philadelphia:Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2008.

Brazil: Body & Soul. New York: Guggenheim Museum and Harry N. Abrams, 2001.


Selected honors:

Chair, Art Advisory Committee, The Americas Society, 1999-2002
Vice President, American Friends of the Fundacion Ludwig de Cuba, 2002 to present
Fellowships and Grants: Guggenheim Foundation, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, American Philosophical Society, American Council of Learned Societies