Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Cover to Be Unveiled: How Meaning Is Revealed with Sheer Veils in Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Nessa Ann Kerr
Postmortem/Postpartum: The Intersection Between Fertility and Mochican Ancestral Power, Megan Elizabeth Patton
Marilyn Minter in Dialogue with Post-Pornography, Nina Peterson
Sex, Sin, and Salvation: A Case Study of the Narrative Pictorial Cycle of Saint Mary the Egyptian at Bourges Cathedral, Justin Sewell
Performed Acculturation at Fort Marion: A Case Study of Zotom's Drawings, Kristin Ann Strid
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Museum/School Partnership: A New Role for Art Museums in K-5 Art Education, Lindsay L. Anderson
Clarity, Light, and Logic: Parallels Between Olafur Eliasson’s The Weather Project and the Gothic Cathedral, Lindsay Smith Gustave
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
John La Farge as Collector of Japanese Art: Motivations and Reflections, Shara Brokaw
Symbol for a Community: The Dickens Opera House and Theaters of the American West, Kaitlyn Stout Bunch
Academie to Atelier: The Artistic Education of American Women in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Anna Estes
Sea Lions, Sacrifice, and Ritual: The Symbolism of Moche Island Imagery, Meagan Leigh Goddard
The Presence of a Woman: Images of La Malinche in el Lienzo de Tlaxcala, Jesse Marie Laird Ortega
Closer to Life: The Work of Sari Dienes, Natalie McKinney Metzger
The Pre-Raphaelite Female Muse in Julia Margaret Cameron’s Idylls of the King Photographs, Kathryn M. Ninneman
Mind Majick: A Study of the Paintings by Harry Smith, Hayley J. Richardson
Our Lady of Guadalupe: Contemporary Explorations of Personal and Cultural Identity, Kenda Leanne Silbert Keenan
Janet Sobel: Expressions of Experience, Kim Sweeney
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Blurring the Lines: How Japanese American Internment Camps Redefined Art and Religion's Relationship, Kristin Bueb
Goya's Late Masterpiece: Head of a Monk, Alisia Robin Coon
Graveyards to Glamour: Development of Sexualized Angel Imagery in American Art and Advertising, Kelsey Marie Dignum
Sights for Sounds: The Roles of Illuminated Initials in Italian Music Manuscripts, Mary Elisabeth Irene Kane
The Dragon Tree in the Age of Exploration, Leá Norcross
Discovering a History: The School of Art at the University of Denver, Alisha D. Stovall
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Art Influences on Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Los Angeles's Influence on Johnny Truant, Rebecca Gates
Maddening the Minotaur: Dora Maar's Power over Pablo Picasso, Bailey E. Harberg
Reinterpreting Coatlicue: The Sculptural Narrative of Defeat at the Shrine of Huitzilopochtli, Renée Miller
Lonnie Holley: Exploration and Analysis of His Artworks in Two Settings—the Yard and the Museum, Sarah Mills Nee
Identity: An Exploration of the Exhibition "There's Something About Mary", Molly Watson Nuanes
The Intra-European Cooperation for Better Standard of Living Poster Competition: A Moment in Graphic Design History, Carolina Lee Roy
A Study of the Martyrdom Altarpiece, Michael Thomas Luke Schneider
Exception or Extension? Reorienting the Peacock Room Among James McNeill Whistler's Interior Designs, Adrienne C. Trunk
Leon Tebbetts: An Artist Who Chose to Be Forgotten, Eric Wimmer
Georges de La Tour: The Status of Scholarship, Maria Rose Wimmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Inventions and Industry in the Art of Howard Finster, Karyn Bocko
Out of the Ordinary: Anne Ryan and Collage, Alison Carol Bowman
Feeling the Risk of Global Warming: Olafur Eliasson's Your Mobile Expectations, Erin Cassidy
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs and Sixteenth-Century Dutch Semiotics, Rebeka Ceravolo
The Foundations of the Artists’ Community of Estes Park, Derek Fortini
“Let the American Potter Be a Professional Amateur": Laura Anne Fry and the American Art Pottery Movement, Laura F. Fry
Moving American Progress Westward: Images of Denver and the Rockies in Popular Culture, Jenn Paul Glaser
Illuminating Faith: The Bute Book of Hours, Lori M. Grecco
All the Rest Is Merely Exploitation and Perseverance: The Poster Art of Frank Kozik, Danielle Linsey Lewis
Modern Classics: Andy Warhol and the Renaissance Masters, Shannon McBratney
Black Maps/Vivid Waters: Beauty and Horror in David Maisel's The Lake Project and Terminal Mirage, Micah C. Messenheimer
James Turrell and the Northern Romantic Tradition, Stephanie L. Newton
ENGI, a Work by Tatsuo Miyajima: Keep Changing, Connect with Everything, Continue Forever, Neely E.K. Patton
The Energy of Beverly Rosen Artist, Professor, Risk Taker, Petra Sertić
Beautiful Victims: Childhood and the Holocaust in the Work of Gottfried Helnwein, Elizabeth Siccone Dicapo
Ambushed Institutions: Artistic Critique of Museums and Banksy's Untitled Series (Museum Donations), Genevieve Claire Westerby
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Houston Conwill, Estella Conwill Majozo, Joseph Depace: Death, Burial, and Afterlife in Two Installations, Miranda D. Callander
Herbert Bayer’s Chromatics: “A Pure Artistic Theory”, Jillian M. Desmond
Surréalisme Sous-L’Eau: Science and Surrealism in the Early Films and Writings of Jean Painlevé, Lauren Fretz
Arnold Rönnebeck, Denver, and Controversy: A Modernist's Confrontation with a City's Conflicted Artistic Identity, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Hogue
Pollock Is … Crouching in My Pants”: Claes Oldenburg’s Ray Gun as Feminist Critique of the Abstract Expressionist Ego, Beth A. Kwapis
The Dongba Cultural Triangle: Connecting Art and Women in Naxi Religious Belief, Lauren A. McDonald
Developing the Arts in Denver: Women's Roles at the Turn of the Century, Rachel Miller
More Than Just a Lady: Indications of a Pan-Mesoamerican Oracle/Priestess Complex, Annabel Bianca Raab
Depicting Diabetes: Three Native American Artists Confront a Twenty-First-Century Epidemic, Kathleen Ludwig Richards
The Choreographed Self: Analysis of the Contemporary Criticisms of Zhang Huan's Performance Art, Caitlin Renee Schwartz
The Fashionable Horse: Ute Saddlebags and Saddle Blankets 1870–1925, Margaret Mary Sell
Outside In: Representational Space and Virtual Asceticism at the Twelfth-Century Cloisters of Santa Maria de Ripoll and St-Michel-de-Cuxa, Matthew J. Westerby
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Forming Identity in the New World: Juan Rodriguez Juarez's Saint Rose of Lima with Christ Child and Donor, Kristin N. Bonk
De Chirico and Divination, Natasha Kersten Brandstatter
Playing with Fire: The Art of Lisa Yuskavage, Francesca Fiorentino
The Muse for Degas' Bathing Beauties: Japanese Woodblock Prints, Katherine Ann Merkel
The Painted Rose: Geertgen tot Sint Jans and Christ's Matriarchal Roots, Elizabeth A. Murphy
Living Spaces: Architectural Representation in the Work of Remedios Varo, Katharina Papenbrock
"Returning Fact": The Development of Dale Chisman's Visual Vocabulary Through Stylistic and Geographic Influences, Daniele Robson
Art and Healing: The Self-Portraiture of Alice Neel, Angela K. Steinmetz
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Understanding the Portraits of Adam Birtwistle, Chiara Hamilton
Potion on a Precipice: The Archetypal Significance of Tristan, Isolde, and Their Love Potion in the Victorian Artistic Imagination, Chelsea Erin Hershelman
The New Scramble for Africa: Jean Pigozzi's Contemporary African Art Collection, Ama Mills-Robertson
The Fruitful Landscapes of Ramon Alejandro, Tina Marie Reyero
German Expressionism in America: The Collection of Morton D. May, Kathleen R. Roach
Jean, Duc de Berry and the Vision of Death: Plague Iconography in Medieval Manuscripts and Paintings, Lisa M. Steed
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The Virgin of Regla: Diaspora of a Dark Madonna in the Spanish Colonies, Julie Parella Anderies
Neo Rauch: Nostalgia and Critique in His Works 1997–2000, Alison L. Gantz
L'histoire de l'histoire: Hiroshi Sugimoto's Interpretation of History, Amy D. Linker
Daring to Understand the Antique Plate Book Market, Karen Niggemyer
Mythologizing the Body: Re-Viewing Rotimi Fani-Kayode's Photography, Angela K. Pizzolato
African Art at the Denver Art Museum: Elements of Innovation, Jennifer Michelle Porter
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Re-Membering South Africa: The Photography of Jo Ractliffe, Bridget M. Biernat.
The Search for a Brazilian National Identity: Theories of Antropofagia and Its Influences, Marcela Bitaraes
Andreas Vesalius and the Influence of de Humani Corporis Fabrica on Dissection Imagery and Medical Portraiture of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Juliet Jane Farnham
Vance Kirkland's Surrealist Landscapes, Rachelle Pershing Gabbard
Tibet on Display: Spiritual Context and Western Interpretation of Tibetan Buddhist Art, Sarah Jean Getzelman
Explorations of Identity: Annette Messager's Album Collections of the Early 1970s, Karen Gillenwater
African Aesthetics, Man-Beast Duality, Parody, and Satire in the Artwork of South African Artist Norman Catherine, Elizabeth H. Kellogg
A Divine Symphony: The Murals of Walter Inglis Anderson, Helen Bafalon Maloney
Every Image Is a Symbol: Komar and Melamid and the New "State-Sponsored" Art, Leslie A. Melvin
Latin American Folk Art at El Museo de las Américas: The Tragen Collection, Sandra L. Vásconez
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and The Seasons of the Year, 1565: Landscape as a Forum for Religious and Political Discourse, Cindy Kelley
A Pioneering Spirit: E. Richardson Cherry and the Development of the Arts in Denver, Colorado, 1889–1896, Meredith McKee Evans
Mount of the Holy Cross in Art: 1873 Through the Late 1990s, Blake L. Milteer
Reframing and Renaming: Three Landscape Photographs by Andreas Gursky, Kirbie Hope Redpath Crowe
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Angelica Kauffman's Classical Choices: Paintings of Mothers and Sons, Amy Chase
Influences on the Revival of Pueblo Pottery Production, Deborah Faust
The Apogee of Aesthetic Japonisme: E. W. Godwin's Design for the Frank Miles House, Tite Street, London, Elizabeth Lake Lovett
Net Art and Its Users, Karen Miller