James R. Dabbert

Education

M.S., Indiana University, Linguistics
B.A., Indiana University, English

Research Interests

English as a Second Language;American Art

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Member of College Art Association

Member of TESOL

Awards

The Indiana Dunes Revealed: The Art of Frank V. Dudley (University of Illinois Press, 2006) has been nominated for the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award given by the College Art Association.

Dabbert's showing of Frank Dudley paintings at Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana, was acknowledged as one of two "Best Museum Shows of 2006" by Chicago Artists' News. The catalog for the show was further described as being a "model of its kind, beautiful reproduction[s], with several thoughtful essays."

Publications

Books

The Indiana Dunes Revisited: Frank Dudley and the 1917 Dunes Pageant (Indiana University Press, 2017).

The Indiana Dunes Revealed: The Art of Frank V. Dudley (University of Illinois Press, 2006).

Articles

“Frank Dudley and the Pageantry of Conservation,” American Art Review 25, no. 4 (August 2013): 68-72.

“Frank V. Dudley: Early Tonalist Painter,” American Art Review 22, no. 6 (December 2010): 82-87.

“The Art of Frank V. Dudley,” American Art Review 18, no. 4 (August 2006): 88-95.

Lecturer, lender, and curator to exhibitions

Curator and Lender, “The Indiana Dunes Revisited: Frank V. Dudley and the 1917 Dunes Pageant,” August 22-December 10, 2017, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana.

Lecture, July 17, 2013, “Land and Sky: Frank Dudley and the Pageantry of Conservation.” Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, Michigan. Lender to exhibition: May 30 to August 9, 2013.

Contributor, The Art of George Ames Aldrich (Indiana University Press, 2013). Lender to exhibition: Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, Indiana, August 21 to November 16, 2012.

Lecture, December 6, 2011: "Midwest Art from the 1893 Columbian Exposition to the First World War." Lender to exhibition: Cliff Dwellers Club, 200 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL. December 2 to 19, 2011.

Lecture: “Frank Dudley, Painter of the Dunes.” Lender to exhibition: December 10 to February 27, 2011. Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana.

Lecture, March 31, 2009: “Conserving Native Landscape in the Metropolis: An Exhibition of Paintings of Burnham Park, Jackson Park, and the Indiana Dunes,” Lender to exhibition: Cliff Dwellers Club, 200 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL. February 28 to April 18, 2009.

Curator and Lender, “The Indiana Dunes Revealed: The Art of Frank V. Dudley, 1868-1957,” August 15-November 10, 2006, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana.

Lecturer and Lender, “Dunes and Toons,” June 10-July 23, 2000, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana.

Lender, “Hoosier Light: The Impressionists of Indiana,” August 21-October 17, 1999, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana.

Projects

Biography and catalogue of the art of Viennese-Chicago artist Oskar Gross (1871-1963). University of Illinois Press.