Stephen Goddard

Stephen Goddard,
Associate Director and Senior Curator Emeritus

Research Interests

• printmaking in northern Europe (1450–present)
• the graphic arts during World War I
• art and the biological sciences

Significant & Ongoing Projects

Stephen Goddard joined the staff of the Spencer Museum of Art 1984, following the completion of this PhD at the University of Iowa and year in a post-doctoral position at the Yale University Art Gallery. His major projects at the Spencer Museum have included: The World in Miniature: Engravings by the German Little Masters, 1500-1550 (1988, 244-page exhibition catalogue); Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, ca. 1890 (1993, 400-page exhibition catalogue); An Eye on Flanders: The Graphic Art of Jules De Bruycker (1996, 111-page exhibition catalogue); Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts (1998, 49-page exhibition catalogue); Remembering the Family Farm: 150 years of American Prints (2001, 94-page exhibition catalogue); Brion Gysin: A Selection of Books and Works on Paper (2005); Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground: Xu Bing’ Book Works (2007); A Greenland Glacier: The Scale of Climate Change (2009);Trees and other Ramifications: Branches in Nature and Culture (2010, 170-page exhibition catalogue); Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts (2010); and Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing (2012, 44-page online catalogue). Goddard is currently working on the exhibition Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World , which explores humanities changing attitudes and understanding of the plant world as perceived through that arts, sciences, and philosophy.


PS

I thank John De Bruycker for pointing this drawing out to me