Award Winning Article

Prof. Michelle Foa’s article, “In Transit: Edgar Degas and the Matter of Cotton, between New World and Old,” The Art Bulletin 102, no. 3 (September 2020) was awarded the 2021 Article Prize by the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.

Prof. Foa is currently at work on a book on Edgar Degas titled The Matter of Degas: Art and Materiality in Later Nineteenth-Century Paris, in which she analyzes the conceptual significance of the artist’s sustained experimentation with diverse media and techniques in the context of his investigation into the physical and material qualities of the world around him. 

[Edgar Degas, A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau, France]