Jeffery Howe
Professor Emeritus, Art History
Jeffery Howe
Ph.D.
Contact
Devlin Hall 430
Telephone: 617-552-8586
Email: jeffery.howe@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0003-1971-4524
Education
- B.A., Carleton College
- Ph.D., Northwestern University
Research Interests
Late nineteenth and early twentieth century art in Europe; American architecture.
Biography
Professor Howe taught a wide range of courses in the history of art and architecture during his 40-year career at Boston College. He served as Departmental Chair for many years, as well as associate editor of the journal of Religion and the Arts from 1996-2008. In 1998, Professor Howe was instrumental in founding the University Arts Council, which organizes the annual arts festival on campus, and served as its Chair until 2010. Dr. Howe, who retired in May 2018, also curated several exhibitions at the McMullen Museum of Art during his time at Boston College and was the author or editor of numerous books and published essays.
Representative Publications
- Nature's Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape, McMullen Museum, 2017. Editor.
- “Nature’s Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape,” introduction to Nature's Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape, McMullen Museum, 2017, 5-41.
- “Fernand Khnopff’s Landscapes: Nature as Mirror,” in Nature's Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape, McMullen Museum, 2017, 63-80.
- Fernand Khnopff: Writings on Art and Artists, 541 pages, 2016. Editor and translator. https://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:107202
- John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred, Boston College: McMullen Museum, 2015. Editor.
- “Introduction,” John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred, Boston College: McMullen Museum, 2015, 9-26.
- “The Light of Memory: John La Farge and Stained Glass,” John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred, Boston College: McMullen Museum, 2015, 51-84.
- Courbet: Mapping Realism, Boston College: McMullen Museum, 2013. Editor.
- “Courbet: Mapping Realism,” in Courbet: Mapping Realism, Boston College: McMullen Museum, 2013, 9-19.
- “Inside Out: Courbet and the Challenge of Realist Landscape,” in Courbet: Mapping Realism, Boston College: McMullen Museum, 2013, 77-84.
- “Gustave Courbet et l’Amérique. The Belgian Connection,” in Courbet et la Belgique, catalog of exhibition, Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 2013, 131-143.
- “Paul Klee and the Unseen World: Ghosts, Somnambulists, and Witches,” in Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision; From Nature to Art, ed. John Sallis, Boston College: The McMullen Museum of Art, 2012, 83-92.
- “Gustave Courbet: The American Connection,” in Courbet et Belgique, Dominique Marechal, ed., catalog of exhibition at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, scheduled for June 2013.
- “Fernand Khnopff: Two Studies for A Sphinx 1889 / Two Studies for Victoria 1892,” brochure published by the Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels/New York, 2011, 3-15.
- “The Gothic Image,” in Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College, ed. Virginia Raguin, Boston College. 2009.
- “The Refuge of Art: Gustave Moreau and the Legacy of Symbolism,” in Mystic Masque, Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault 1871-1958, ed. Stephen Schloesser, Boston College: McMullen Museum of Art, 2008, 45-62.
- A New Key: Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection, catalog of exhibition, McMullen Museum, Boston College, 2007. (ed.).
- Houses of Worship: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Religious Architecture, London: PRC Publishing, 2003.
- The Houses We Live In: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic Architecture, London: PRC Publishing, 2002. (ed.).
- "A 'Monster Edifice': Ambivalence, Appropriation and the Forging of Cultural Identity at the Centennial Exhibition," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. CXXVI, no. 4, October, 2002, pp. 635-650.
- Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol, and Expression, catalog of exhibition, the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2001. (ed.).
- "Nocturnes: Munch and Melancholia, and the Mysteries of Life and Death," in Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol, Expression, catalog of exhibition, the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2001, pp. 48.
- The Plume and the Palette: Essays in Honor of Josephine von Henneberg, New York: Peter Lang, 2001. (ed.).