research

Current Projects

“Engineered Waterways and French Landscape Painting, 1850–1910” (working title, dissertation in progress)


Past Projects

Genevieve Westerby, “Pissarro at Pontoise: Picturing Infrastructure and the Changing Riverine Environment,” Athanor 39 (2022): 155–170.

Genevieve Westerby, “Mary Cassatt, Seeking Independence: Her Early Exhibition Practice in New York and Paris,” Woman’s Art Journal 42, no. 1 (May 2021).

Genevieve Westerby and Kelly Keegan, “Digital Art History and the Museum: The Online Scholarly Collection Catalogues at the Art Institute of Chicago” Visual Resources vol. 35, nos. 1–2, special issue, Digital Art History: Five Years Later, ed. Murtha Baca, Melissa Gill, and Anne Helmreich (2019).

Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby, eds., Manet Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago,  Art Institute of Chicago, 2017–19.

co-authored with Helen Burnham

Portrait of Alphonse Maureau, 1878/79 (cat. 18)

The Man with the Dog, c. 1882 (cat. 21)

Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby, eds., Gauguin Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Works at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.

co-authored with Richard R. Brettell

Still Life: Wood Tankard and Metal Pitcher, 1880 (cat. 1)

Woman in front of a Still Life by Cézanne, 1890 (cat. 23)

Te raau rahi (The Big Tree), 1891 (cat. 27)

Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree), 1892 (cat. 28)

Merahi metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana), 1893 (cat. 50)

Mahana no atua (Day of the God), 1894 (cat. 72)

No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?) (cat. 90)

Polynesian Woman with Children, 1901 (cat. 122)

Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby, eds., Caillebotte Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.

Reviewed by Anne Higonnet, The Art Bulletin 99, no. 2 (June 2017): 196–98.

 

Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby, eds., Pissarro Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.

Images | Left: Detail from Camille Pissarro, The Lock at Pontoise (1872). Oil on canvas; 53 x 83 cm. Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund, 1990.7. Right: Detail from Pontoise, Vue sur l’Église de Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône. Postcard, c. 1900.