The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) announce that Dr. Anna Marley, Curator of Historical American Art, has been elected the next Co-Chair of the Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA).
Marley’s three-year term will begin in February 2014 at the AHAA’s Annual Meeting in Chicago, as part of the College Art Association’s (CAA) 102nd Annual Conference.
Founded in 1979, AHAA is a membership organization and an affiliated society of CAA. AHAA aims to promote “scholarship on art of the United States from the European encounter with Native peoples to contemporary practice through several means.”
A scholar of American art and material culture from the colonial era to 1945, Marley joined PAFA in March of 2009. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College, an M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware.
At PAFA, Marley has curated the touring retrospective Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit (2012), and edited the acclaimed accompanying catalog, published by the University of California Press. She also curated A Mine of Beauty: Landscapes by William Trost Richards (2012); Virgins, Soldiers, Angels, and Saints: Violet Oakley’s Religious Art from the PAFA Collection (2010); and Public Treasures/Private Visions: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Private Collections (2009-10). Marley co-curated Modern Women at PAFA: From Cassatt to O’Keeffe (2012); Hidden Treasures Unveiled: Watercolors (2012); and Anatomy/Academy (2011). Currently, Marley is organizing the touring exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887-1920 (2015).