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"Ways of Seeing: The Art of Norman Rockwell" by Wanda M. Corn, Ph.D., Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University. 

This lecture will look at Norman Rockwell’s love of art history and the works of art he saw in museums. He often quoted from masterpieces in his illustrations and explored the different ways people look at and engage a work of art. Wanda M. Corn is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita at Stanford University and most recently developed the exhibition and book Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories for the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Retired from teaching since 2007, she continues to guest curate major museum exhibitions. Her museum exhibitions and books include The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1990-1910 (1972); The Art of Andrew Wyeth (1973); and Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (1983). In 2005-06, she transformed her major study, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and American Identity, 1915-35, published by University of California Press in 1999, into a museum exhibition. Dr. Corn’s scholarship on transatlantic modernism focuses on the exchanges and interdependencies of modern artists in Paris and New York, conceptualizing an Atlantic rim of avant-garde culture. She has just completed a book on the decorations woman artists made for the 1893 Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Read about Dr. Corn's lecture on "Women Building History" here. 

The Chenoweth lectures are endowed by Dr. Arthur I. Chenoweth as a memorial to his brother and parents. The purpose of the lectures is to encourage international understanding through the presentation of a variety of subjects by specialists in their fields.