Jane Mayo Roos
Associate Professor of 19th and 20th Century European Painting, Sculpture, and Theory

PhD, Columbia University, 1981

jroos@hunter.cuny.edu

Professor Jane Roos has taught courses in Methodology, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Impressionism, and Sculpture in the 19th and 20th Centuries.  She has also taught at Columbia University and The New School.  She has been the recipient of a Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship (1987-88), research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (1987) and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (1977 and 1979), numerous research and travel awards from City University, and exhibition grants from The Florence Gould Foundation (1998 and 1999).  She has lectured widely, and appeared recently on “Canapé” (CUNY-TV, Channel 72). 

Books:

A Painter’s Poet: Stéphane Mallarmé and His Impressionist Circle. Exh. cat., Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, with the Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet (Paris), 1999.

Early Impressionism and the French State (1866-1874). Cambridge University Press, 1996. pb 2000.

Picture This! Daumier’s Caricatures on Art and Artists. Exh. cat. Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, 1990.

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