Dr. Colin Cruise, the 2008 Fellow in
Pre-Raphaelite Studies, will deliver
a lecture based on his studies of the history of Pre-Raphaelite drawing. His research was conducted at the University of Delaware Library and the Delaware Art Museum, which jointly offer a Fellowship in
Pre-Raphaelite Studies. |
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Dr. Cruise has written widely on 19th-century art and culture. He curated the exhibition Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites for the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England, in 2005 and is currently working on a project surveying Pre-Raphaelite drawing. He teaches art history at the School of Art, the University of Aberystwyth, Wales.
The University of Delaware / Delaware Art Museum joint Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies is awarded to scholars conducting significant research in the lives and works of the Pre-Raphaelites and their friends, associates, and followers. Dr. Cruise is the first recipient of the Fellowship.
Images (top-left to top-right): Ruth Herbert, c. 1858-59. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Watercolor, 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935. | Elizabeth Siddal, 1854. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Watercolor on paper, 7 1/8 x 6 3/8 inches. F. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1985. | Mrs. William Morris, 1870. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Pencil on paper. Mark Samusels Lasner Collection, on loan to the University of Delaware Library. |
