Material Matters in the Dutch Atlantic World: Albert Eckhout’s Paintings of an African Man and Woman
lecture by Carrie Anderson, Middlebury College
Friday, December 9 2022 at 5:30 PM
Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
download symposium program (pdf)
The following day, graduate students from Johns Hopkins and Tulane will be
presenting their final projects - object-based research on the visual
and material culture of the Dutch West India Company (WIC). The WIC,
founded in 1621, traded across the Atlantic, with footholds in regions
of New York, Curaçao, Guyana, Brazil, Suriname, Ghana and Benin –
dealing primarily in fur, tobacco, sugar, gold and enslaved Africans.
Modeled on laboratory courses in the sciences, the seminar saw teams
comprising of students from both schools working on a specific geography
(New Netherland/New York, the Caribbean, West Africa, Brazil) working
together in order to identify, research, catalog, and publish relevant
items in a web-based database. This symposium celebrates and reflects on
this groundbreaking foundational research in an emerging field of art
historical scholarship, the assembly of a corpus of objects, sites, and
materials related to the Dutch trading companies present in the
Americas. The Dutch Americas Symposium is supported by Johns Hopkins and the Newcomb College Institute’s Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau Art and Music Fund.
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