NCAW Autumn 2025, Vol. 24, Issue 3
Table of Contents

Editors’ Welcome

Articles
“‘A Strange Woman Slumbers’: The Reframing of the Medieval Queen Margrete’s Sarcophagus by the Danish Women’s Movement and the Artist Agnes Slott-Møller”
by Katrine Bruun Jørgensen

“Nel Duerinckx and Rik Wouters: Collaborative Creation, Domestic Work, and Building a Legacy”
by Apolline Malevez

“A Man for All Seasons: Karl Bitter and the Twelve Months Panels for the Huntington Mansion in New York City”
by Kyle Mancuso

“Conflating Past and Present: Representations of Ancient Iranian Kingship and Royal Justice in Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Qajar Cosmographies”
by Bilha Moor

New Discoveries
“Ditlev Blunck, A Street Scene, 1828”
by Kasper Lægring

“Sally Philipsen, Portrait of the Chinese Craftsman and Dwarf Tjong Fu’hk Wong
Waih, 1904”
by William Ma

Practicing Art History
“The Evolving Archive, part 1”
Organized by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Kim Orcutt, and Isabel L. Taube

Book Reviews
Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy
by Ruth E. Iskin
Reviewed by Samantha Burton

Republics and Empires: Italian and American Art in Transnational Perspective
edited by Melissa Dabakis and Paul H. D. Kaplan
Reviewed by Paolo Coen

The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander: 1837-1917
by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
Reviewed by Melissa Dabakis

Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures: The Celebrity Photograph in Gilded Age New York
by Erin Pauwels
Reviewed by Katherine Fein

The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America
by Elizabeth L. Lee
Reviewed by Barbara Dayer Gallati

Plunder? How Museums Got Their Treasures
by Justin M. Jacobs
Reviewed by MacKenzie Mallon

Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies
by Maggie M. Cao
Reviewed by Kim Orcutt

Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America
by Peter Conn
Reviewed by Rachel Stephens

Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France
by Kelly Presutti
Reviewed by Alison Syme

Exhibition Reviews
Передвижники (Peredvizhniki; The Wanderers)
Reviewed by Maria Chukcheeva

L’Art est dans la rue (Art Is in the Street)
Reviewed by Peter Clericuzio

Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits
Reviewed by Barbara Dayer Gallati

Esperpento: Arte popular y revolución estética (Esperpento: Popular Art and Aesthetic
Revolution)
Reviewed by Andrew Ginger

Sorolla: Cien años de modernidad (Sorolla: One Hundred Years of Modernity)
Reviewed by Andrew Ginger

In Your Wildest Dreams: Ensor Beyond Impressionism
Reviewed by Lotte Kremer

The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917
Reviewed by Amy Kurtz Lansing

Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry, and Ecology along the Hudson River
Reviewed by Patricia Mainardi

Masquerade, Make-up & Ensor
Reviewed by Apolline Malevez

Seeing is Believing: The Art and Influence of Jean-Léon Gérôme
Reviewed by Alia Nour