Wendy Bellion teaches eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American art history. She holds a B.A. in art history from Wesleyan University and an MA and PhD from Northwestern University. Her research and teaching takes a broad view of early American visual culture, exploring paintings, prints, photographs, and other media in relation to questions of vision, representation, science, gender, and political culture. Her current book project, Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Discernment in Early National Philadelphia, examines the exhibition of trompe l'oeil paintings, optical devices, and illusionistic spectacles within the context of cultural anxieties about perception and deception. Her reserarch on the post-revolutionary work of Charles Willson Peale has been published in The Art Bulletin and American Art; her work has also appreared in New Media 1740-1915, Common-place.org, and several exhibition catalogues.
Professor Bellion taught at Rutgers University and the College of William and Mary before joining the University of Delaware in 2004. She has held fellowships at the Omohundro Institue of Early American History and Culture, Winterthur Museum, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, and she has contributed to exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Newberry Library, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She is a faculty affiliate in the Center for Material Culture Studies and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture.
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