Wanda Corn in London

Wanda M. Corn is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University, where she joined the faculty in 1980. She specializes in the history of modern art, photography, and visual culture, and she takes a special interest in the ways artists and art movements traveled globally in the early 20th century among great cities, such as New York, Paris, London, and Amsterdam. For the last twenty years, she has been active in preserving and interpreting American artist homes and studios that are open for public visitation. She serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of Historic Art Homes and Studios (HAHS), a membership program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This trip features major homes in and outside of London that belong to a worldwide movement dedicated to saving and learning from artist spaces.

Professor Corn has curated and authored numerous volumes and essays, including her study of avant-garde modernist culture, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935. Her catalogue for the seven-venue exhibition, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern, which she organized at the Brooklyn Museum in 2017, was the recipient of the 2018 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award. She also authored the foreword to the Guide to Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios, published in 2020.

Professor Corn earned her BA, MA, and PhD in art history from New York University and has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Smithsonian Regents, and the Stanford Humanities Center. She was a member of the advisory board for the Georgia O’Keeffe Catalogue Raisonné project and has served on the board of directors of the College Art Association, the commission of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Terra Foundation board. She serves today on the board of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art and the Advisory board of the Grant Wood Art Colony.

Wanda considers herself an Anglophile, beginning when she was an undergraduate student for one year in London. She and her husband, Professor Joe Corn of the History Department, taught at Stanford’s Bing Overseas Studies Program in Oxford.