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Dr. Courtney Wilder

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Curator of Works on Paper, Vanderbilt University Museum of Art | Art Historian studying intersections between print media and textiles, especially in the early-mid nineteenth century

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 2d

“Paper Backs: Hidden Stories of European Prints from the VUMA Collection” is now open at Vanderbilt! See it in-person through December 7, or via the online version. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b996...

Paper Backs

Hidden Stories of European Prints from the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art Collection

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 2d

Paper Backs

Hidden Stories of European Prints from the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art Collection

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 2d

Please join us next Thursday for a virtual symposium that explores the backstories behind Southern U.S. museums’ collections of pre-1915 European prints, featuring curators from six museums (including me!). Register in advance to attend. More info here: printscholars.org/online-sympo...

Online Symposium: Paper Backstories: European Prints in Southern Museums : Association of Print Scholars

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Sep 10

Congrats!!

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Historians of British Art @hba-caa.bsky.social · Aug 29

Our Summer Newsletter is out! In this edition: HBA's book awards long list📖; an inside view of The Clark's exhibition "A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945" from curator Alexis Goodin 👩‍🎨; as well as exhibition, events, CFPs, and grant listings. mailchi.mp/bc3b126e4fb3...

Historians of British Art – Summer 2025 Newsletter

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Aug 12

Nashville: we’ve been practicing throwing catfish on ice for a while now… 😈 (hot chicken will come out if things get really bad)

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Apr 27

Congratulations!!! Beautiful dress 🩷

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Apr 24

Where’s Vanderbilt U? 👀

Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · Apr 23

353 signatories so far on the @aacu.org Call! AMAZING work by their team. Take a look - organized by the presidents' last names (not the institutions or associations). Is your college/university or academic organization there? #academicsky #skystorians #edusky #higher www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U

A Call for Constructive Engagement

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Apr 5

Good crowd at #HandsOff in Nashville’s Centennial Park (home to our Parthenon replica).

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Apr 1

In a suit and tie.Since last night. You can WATCH. And I’m hearing that Sen. Warnock is up next.

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Apr 1

The Senator’s empathy and anger on behalf of the many families facing devastating diagnoses of a loved one with diseases like Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s, who must now worry about losing essential support from the government, hit me hard. Thank you @booker.senate.gov for speaking for us.

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · Apr 1

Listen to Sen Cory Booker rip into anyone who voted for the CR!

He’s pledged to hold the floor tonight for as long as possible.

Let’s lift him up and show him support as he gets in good trouble!
@booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com

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Historians of British Art @hba-caa.bsky.social · Mar 28

We're now accepting panel submissions for the HBA-sponsored session at CAA 2026 in Chicago! 🗓️ Deadline: April 18 🗓️ Learn more via our website: historiansofbritishart.org/caa-conferen...

CAA 2026 – Call for Panel Submissions

The Historians of British Art (HBA) invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 114th Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA), to be held in Chicago from February 18–21, 2026. We …

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · Feb 28

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection

Abstract painting with a band blue sandwiched between two bands of golden yellow, the top one thick and the bottom one much thinner. The borders between the colors are rough.

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Feb 18

😍😍😍

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Feb 4

Called my reps+senators this morning- thanks for the inspiration! (All 3 are maga bootlickers but 🤷‍♀️)

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Jan 30

I love them b/c they exemplify curiosity and creativity; love of variety & ability to imagine the hybridity and interconnection of all things. Qualities that make the world better, in other words. Approaching 500 years of survival in a world that has frequently been terrible but also beautiful.

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Jan 30

I’ve been saving cataloguing several little booklets of ornament prints as a special “treat.” I needed them today 😔 Here are a few lovely little details from the booklet featuring Adriaen Collaert and Etienne Delaune to help offer a momentary break from the tragedies filling our timelines.

Part of an ornament prints by A. Collaert (ca 1580-99) featuring rabbits, moths and snails as part of grotesqueries on a black ground

Part of an ornament prints by E. Delaune (ca 1550-72) featuring a squirrel as part of grotesqueries on a black ground

Part of an ornament prints by A. Collaert (ca 1580-99) featuring flowers and snails as part of grotesqueries on a black ground

Ornament prints from the 16th century pasted into a small booklet of folded paper (possibly blue at one time?). Collection of Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, gift of George H. Sullivan

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Dec 13

This 1800 print that I just catalogued isn’t in good condition, but I love that it was published by Lackington, of the Temple of the Muses bookstore fame - and therefore feels like a ticket into that space! (See v cool trade cards from British Museum, touting a stock of 200k volumes for sale!)

An early modern print depicting a winged Satan on a hilltop with gods and demons surrounding him

A tradecard depicting the exterior bow windows of a bookshop ca. 1800; 2 ancient gods and a street cleaner stand on the sidewalk. The words Small Profits Industry Fidelity and Perseverance are written at the bases of the windows.

A print showing the interior of the early 1800s bookstore the Temple of the Muses with people browsing

A hand-colored print showing the interior of the early 1800s bookstore the Temple of the Muses

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · Dec 12

Our article in Digital Humanities Quarterly is Open Access. It's a case study, so even if you don't study Nashville, the Civil War, Slavery, the South, or even Black Studies, there's a lot of discussion here about how to do a co-creative DH project. 4/4
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/4...

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Community-Driven Linked Data Approaches in Builders and Defenders: Nashville's Historical Black Civil War Database

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Dec 12

The full plate and link: archive.org/details/gri_...

An engraving showing a man feeding mutton to 6 cats with varying degrees of interest

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Dec 12

Cataloguing some Picart prints cut out from the Ceremonies et Costumes religieuses de tout les peuples du monde (1723-37) and found this absolute gem in a digitized copy!

A detail of an engraving showing a cat climbing up a man

A detail of an engraving showing a cat (whose expression suggests she may be plotting something)

A detail of an engraving showing a (chonky) cat from the back begging at a man’s feet

A detail of an engraving showing a cat smelling a cloth in a man’s hand

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Historians of British Art @hba-caa.bsky.social · Dec 10

We're here! (And still hanging on over at The Bad Place: @HBA_CAA). Looking forward to sharing updates from our members and news about upcoming events, awards, etc.! (Image: Frederic, Lord Leighton, The Sluggard, bronze, modeled 1886. Met Museum Collection)

A bronze statuette of a nude young man stretching as if just waking up

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Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Dec 9

Ugh, the rebooted @rijksmuseum.bsky.social collection search is awful!! It’s style over substance: finding advance search very challenging to navigate, and am bombarded by (never thought I’d say this) waaay too many images (my eyes and RAM hurt). Bring back the perfectly good previous iteration!

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Nov 23

“34” - I’ll take it 😉

Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar.bsky.social · Nov 21

Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Nov 17

Dangerous 25¢ record sale this weekend at The Great Escape in Nashville! So tempting to buy for the sleeve art alone…

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · Nov 12

So excited for this!

A screenshot with the itinerary for the Drawn to Blue online symposium, with a picture of the Getty Museum in the background and the logos of the Getty & the University of Amsterdam