Senior Talks and Art History Prizes

Featured image above: (left to right) Adrian Peoples, Anne Hedgepeth, Oliver Brown, and Lucy Schwalbe.

Congratulations to our senior thesis writers, whose theses all received High Honors!  

Art history’s four Honors candidates presented the final research for their senior theses at Boger 112 on April 23, to a room packed with art history majors and minors, friends, parents, and faculty members from different departments.

As a recognition of an outstanding achievement in the thesis “Origin of Woman: Evolution of the French Renaissance Female Nude”, the art history faculty awarded the Beulah Friedman Prize to Adrian Peoples ‘26.

Anne Hedgepeth ‘26 (“Spatializing Memory: Geography and Diaspora in the Sculptures of Melvin Edwards”), Oliver Brown ‘26 (“Gustave Caillebotte: Modernity, Masculinity, and Privacy”), and Lucy Schwalbe ‘26 (“Crafting National Identity: Olga de Amaral’s Social Fabrics”) received the Alumni Prize in the History of Art for their remarkable work.

Adrian Peoples presenting “Origin of Woman: Evolution of the French Renaissance Female Nude”

Oliver Brown presenting “Gustave Caillebotte: Modernity, Masculinity, and Privacy”

Lucy Schwalbe presenting “Crafting National Identity: Olga de Amaral’s Social Fabrics”

Anne Hedgepeth presenting “Spatializing Memory: Geography and Diaspora in the Sculptures of Melvin Edwards”