Gale Murray
Professor
Art
Gale is an authority on Toulouse-Lautrec. She's currently working on articles about his song illustrations and his altered paintings, as well as on a sequel to her first book which dealt with his early career. This one covers his mature and later years (1892-1901) and addresses subjects in his work such as the theater, popular song, prostitution, and the representation of Jewish subjects. Her newest project is a study of the cycle of monumental sculptures of French Queens and famous women that was installed in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris in the 1840s.
Areas:
19th and 20th Century Art History
Professional Experience
- Professor, 华体会, 1991-; chair, Art Department 2004-2007,1998-2002;1992-96; associate chair, 2003-2006
- Nancy Bryson Schlosser and C. William Schlosser Professor in the Arts, 2006-2009
- Judson M. Bemis Professor of the Humanities, 华体会, 1994-97
- Associate Professor, 华体会, 1985-90
- Assistant Professor, 华体会, 1978-84, tenured 1984; acting chair, Art Department 1983-84
- Instructor of Art, 华体会, 1976-78
- Visiting Instructor in Art, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, Spring 1976
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Autumn 1975, 1973 -74
- Teaching Preceptor in Art History, Columbia University, 1973-74, 1972-73
Fellowships and Grants
- Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, 1993
- American Philosophical Society Grant, 1989-9
- 华体会 Benezet Summer Fellowship, 1999, 1995, 1994, 1992, 1989, 1987
- American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, Summer 1983
- Columbia University, Noble Foundation Fellowship, 1974-75
- French Government Grant, Spring 1975
- Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to France, 1971-72
- Columbia University Kress Foundation Grant, 1970-71
Publications
Books
Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878-1891, Oxford University Press, Clarendon
Studies in the History of Art, 1991.Awarded a subsidy by the Millard Meiss Publication
Fund of the College Art Association of America
Toulouse-Lautrec: A Retrospective, an anthology of witness accounts of the artist, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates and Macmillan Press, 1992 (French edition: Toulouse-Lautrec: Un peintre,une vie, une oeuvre, Belfond, 1992)
Articles and Essays
Article/review of Richard Thomson, et al, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2005. CAA Online Reviews, 2006
"Music Illustration in the Circle of Bonnard: From Naturalism to Symbolism," in Dennis Cate, Gale B. Murray, and Richard Thomson, Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001
"Toulouse-Lautrec's Illustrations for Victor Joze and Georges Clemençeau and their
Relationship to French Anti-Semitism of the 1890s," in Linda Nochlin and Tamar Garb, eds.,
The Jew in the Text.Modernity and the Politics of Identity, London, Thames and Hudson, 1995
"A 'Flattering Project': Toulouse-Lautrec's Illustrations of Victor Hugo's Poetry," Actes duColloque Toulouse-Lautrec, 1992, Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, 1994
Review of Richard Thomson et al, Toulouse-Lautrec, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London, and Grand Palais, Paris, Yale University Press, 1991, Drawing 14, no. 4 (Nov.-Dec. 1992):85-87.
Introduction to The Letters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ed.Herbert Schimmel, Oxford
University Press, 1991 (French edition: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Correspondance,
Gallimard, 1992)
"The Theme of the Quadrille Naturaliste in the Art of Toulouse-Lautrec," Arts Magazine 5 (Dec. 1980):68-75
"Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: A Checklist of Revised Dates, 1878-1891," Gazette desBeaux-Arts 95 (Feb. 1980):77-90
Article/review of M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre (6 vols.), Art Bulletin 60 (Mar. 78):179-82
Regular Classes
- Introduction to Art History
- Nineteenth Century Art
- Turn-of-the-Century Art in London, Paris and Vienna
- Revolution and Tradition in Modern Art
- Art Since 1945
- Nineteenth Century French Art, summer course in Paris.
Committees & Governance
- Assessment Committee
- Semester in the Arts Committee
- Previous chair of Art Department and of Faculty Executive Committee.
Education
- B.A. Barnard College, 1966
- M.A. Columbia University 1970
- M.Phil. Columbia University 1977
- Ph.D. Columbia Univeristy 1978
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