Profile

University of Pennsylvania, PhD, 1977

Email: knichol@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2130
Office: Lawrence Hall 382

Professor Nicholson received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. Her research and teaching interests focus on late 18th- and 19th-century art, and range from J.M.W. Turner and British landscape paintings to 18th-century French allegorical portraits of women.

Publications

'The Ideology of Feminine 'Virtue': The Vestal Virgin in French Eighteenth- Century Allegorical Portraiture.'
In Portraiture: Facing the Subject
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996

Turner's Classical Landscapes
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990