Conferenciers             Voyage 9:   July 10 - July 26, 2004     Dr. Elizabeth Childs Associate Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis, is a specialist in nineteenth-century French art history.   She has published numerous articles and exhibition catalogue essays on Gauguin.   She is currently writing a survey text on Gauguin for Phaidon Press, London.   Her essays have focussed on such topics as, and Gauguin's relationship with Van Gogh and the avant-garde, Gauguin and colonial culture in Polynesia, Gauguin and photography, and Gauguin's work as a writer, particularly during his later career in the Marquesas.   She received her PhD in 1989 at Columbia University.   She has taught art history at Purchase College, State University of New York, and since 1993, has been on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis.   She has also worked at the Guggenheim Museum, and has held fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.   She has served as a lecturer and guide on several study tours to both Europe and Polynesia.

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