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Meet Art inSight Teacher and Guide Karen Pope

Karen Pope, Art Historian

Karen Pope, PhD in History of Art (University of Texas 1981) is a popular lecturer in and around Austin on diverse topics. With expertise especially in the art of Europe and America in the 19th and 20th centuries, she strives to make art history accessible and enjoyable for audiences of all levels.

Since 1998, she has been teaching art history full time at Baylor University in the new Allbritton Art Institute, which supports emphasis on the art of the 19th and 20th centuries. For a glimpse into this academic side, visit https://homepages.baylor.edu/karen_pope.

From designing and conducting art history programs for the University of Texas fine arts community in the early 1980s, her enthusiasm and proficiency for guiding interested adults through the history of art led, in January 1995, to the creation of Art inSight Inc. Embarking on its 17th year, Art inSight enjoys art history friendships around Austin, around Central Texas, and around the country. Many of these friends look forward to studying and traveling together from year to year and are building their knowledge of art history by recognizing connections from one tour to the next--historic periods, great artists, compelling themes.

Thanks for reading,

Karen Pope resume (5 pages)

Serendipity struck in 2010:

Last December, I sent a little fan mail to Jenness Cortez, a contemporary painter of trompe l'oeil still life images, in which famous paintings appear as the centerpieces of thoughtful thematic arrangements of varied objects. In response came an invitation to write about the paintings and we struck an agreement. I met the artist in her Florida gallery in January, began to write ... visited her studio near Albany, New York, in May, where we made the final selection of 54 paintings from a series of more than 120 pictures ... enjoyed a cordial and efficient editing process by email ... and the book has been published.

Thanks to Mary Douthit at the Blanton Museum of Art, Homage to the Creative Spirit is available at the Blanton shop.

Several friends offered guidance and shared reflections as I worked; thanks to my art friends for your great support!

A History of Art inSight: Where We've Been

Art inSight Study Tours Abroad
10 to 14 days, informal lectures and study materials;
focus on sites, collections, and special events

	2011 2010 2008 2007											"Paris: Impressionism & the Arts" (incl. Channel, Barbizon, Giverny) "Iberian Surprise: Art & History in Lisbon" "Glories of Britain, part III: Constable & English Landscape" (East Anglia) “Baroque to Secession: Vienna & the Arts”
	2006											“Dutch Golden Age: The Netherlands' Rembrandt Year”
	2005											“Venice, Queen of the Adriatic”
	2004											“The Best of Russia”
	2002											“Paris to Marseille, Art in the Heart of France” (two INTRAV study cruises)
	2002											"Art & Architecture in Madrid and the Heart of Spain"
	2001											"Berlin & Prague: History, Art & Architecture"
	2001											"Paris: City of the Impressionists"
	2000											"Flemish & Dutch Art: A Comprehensive Study Voyage" (Netherlands and Belgium, three INTRAV cruises)
	1999											“The Best of Italy” (Rome, Florence, Venice)
	1998											“Paris in the Second Empire: City of the Impressionists”
	1997											“Art at the Turn of the Century: Catalunya and Provence”
	1997											“The Glories of Britain, Part I: London & the Arts”
	1996											“Golden Age: The Arts in the North” (Denmark and The Netherlands)
	1996											“Mediterranean Masters: From the Ancients to the Moderns & Back” (CUNARD cruise: Spain, France, Italy)
	1996											“Vermeer and His Century” (Netherlands, Belgium)
	1995											“Masters of the Low Countries: Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondrian” (Netherlands, Belgium)
	1994											“Switzerland: History, Culture, Art”
	1994											“The Renaissance in Northern Italy: Venice and Milan”
	1993											“Art in the Heart of Italy: The Renaissance in Tuscany and Umbria”
	1990											“Masters of the Low Countries: Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondrian” (Netherlands, Belgium)
	1986											“Art and the English Landscape 1700-1850” (England, Wales)
	1985											“19th-Century French Painting: Heritage of Impressionism” (Ile-de-France, Normandy, Provence)

Art inSight Study Tours in the US
4 to 8 days, informal lectures and study materials;
focus on sites, collections and special events

2011 2011 2010 2010 2009 2009 2008 2008 2007 2007	"Boston: Art & History in the Cradle of Liberty" "Japan Comes to Jackson" ("Orient Expressed;" Natchez) "Spirit of California: Art & History in the Bay Area" "Hidden Treasures: Women & the Arts in Washington, D.C." "Baltimore & Annapolis: Art & History around the Chesapeake" "Art and Architecture in Chicago's Golden Age" (Munch @ AIC) "Modern Art & Architecture in the City of Angels" (LA +) "Great Houses of the Hudson River" (New York to Albany) "Wright in the Heartland: Historic Art & Architecture in Wisconsin" “Historic Homes & Gardens of Virginia: Jamestown 400 and American History”
2006	“Franklin and Philadelphia” (Citizen of Two Worlds and major museums and historic houses in and around Philadelphia)
2006	“Texas Museum Blitz” (ten art museums of Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston in three days)
2005	“Chicago: Art and the Artful House in a Great American City”
2005	“Arts in Atlanta” (Van Gogh to Mondrian Kröller-Müller collection at High Museum, other museums, historic Atlanta)
2003	“Celebrate America: Louisiana, the Purchase, the Bicentennial" (Jefferson's America, Napoleon's France, New Orleans)
2003	"Great American Museums: Dallas and Fort Worth" (Elderhostel course)
2000	"Historic Charleston: Art & Architecture"
1999	"Bastille Day 1999: Franco-Fête in New Orleans” (Degas in New Orleans and 3-Centuries observances)
1999	"Van Gogh & The Getty” (Van Gogh’s Van Goghs, new Getty Center, museums, gardens, houses)
1999	"Philadelphia: Art & Architecture in the Cradle of Liberty” (including Goya: Another Look and Maxfield Parrish)
1998	“Perspectives on the 1890s: Mary Cassatt & Her Times” (Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, art, architecture)
1998	"France & America Meet in Jackson: Bastille Day 1998” (Splendors of Versailles, historic architecture)
1998	"Art & Architecture in the Federal City” (special exhibitions, Washington museums and landmarks)
1997	"Austin to Boston: Art & History" (Early Picasso and 1890s)
1996	“Perspectives on the 1890s: Degas and His Times” (Chicago)
1996	“Cézanne and the Art of His Time” (Philadelphia)
1995	“Whistler and the French Avant-Garde” (Washington DC)
1995	“Gustave Caillebotte, Urban Impressionist: The Painter & His Contemporaries” (Chicago)
1995	“Late Monet & the Vieux Carré: Giverny Comes to the Crescent City” (New Orleans)
1994	“New York & the Arts: The Hudson River School”
1993 1992	“New York: Broadway & the Arts” (Stuart Davis exhibition) "New York & the Arts" (centennial Seurat exhibition)
1989	“Bastille Day's Bicentennial: Great French Art in America” (Philadelphia)
1988	“Degas and the Arts” (New York City)
1988	“The Art of Paul Gauguin” (Chicago)
1987	“Van Gogh at St.-Rémy & Auvers / Matisse in Nice” (New York City, Washington DC)
1986	"The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886” (San Francisco)
1984 1984	“The West Coast and the Arts” (Los Angeles and San Francisco) "A Day in the Country: Impressionism and Its Times" (Chicago)

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