Department of Art
Donald McColl
Dr. McColl joins students and staff of the American Studies Institute in front of the National Gallery of Art. Click to enlarge photo.
Dr. McColl in northern Portugal.
Nancy L. Underwood Associate Professor of Art History
Chair, Department of Art and Art History
Director, Kohl Art Gallery
E-mail: dmccoll2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 7874
Office: Daly 217
Education
- B.A., University of Western Ontario, 1986
- M.A., Oberlin College, 1992
- Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1996, with postdoctoral study at Northwestern University
Office Hours
Tuesday, Thursday, 4:00-5:15 p.m., and by appointment
Research Interests
- Netherlandish, German and Swiss art of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries
- art and the Reformations of the sixteenth century
- iconoclasm
- Early Christian/Late Antique art and archaeology
- museology
Course Offerings
- Introduction to History of Western Art
- World Art (in planning)
- Late Antique Art in the Making
- Wars Against Idols: Cross-Cultural Studies in Iconoclasm
- Northern Renaissance Art
- Italian Renaissance Art
- Art from the Baroque to Neoclassicism
- Dürer and his Culture
- Rembrandt
- Museums (Broken Homes?): History, Theory, Practice
- Exhibition Seminar: Rembrandt's Poor
Recent Publications
- "Agony in the Garden: Dürer's 'Crisis of the Image.'" In The Essential Dürer. Ed. Jeffrey Chipps Smith and Larry Silver. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
- "Ad fontes: Iconoclasm by Water in the Reformation World." In Michael Cole and Rebecca Zorach, eds., The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions, and the Early Modern World. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom, and Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008, 189-220.
- "Signs of the Times: The Cleveland Marbles." Byzantine Studies Research Reports, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC, 2006 (http://doaks.org/do_byz.fellowships_reports.htm/#_27)