Featured image above: (left to right) Adrian Peoples, Anne Hedgepeth, Oliver Brown, and Lucy Schwalbe at the Art History Commons, with images that represented their research on the walls in the background.
Congratulations to our senior thesis writers, whose theses all received High Honors!
Four Honors candidates from the Art History Program 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.
Project introductions and images that represented the writers’ research were installed in the Art History Commons, a space which the seniors often made use of when working on their theses. “It was nice to have a dedicated space for art history,” Peoples said. “It was also helpful to be able to access former theses to see how they were formatted, and I often ran into the other thesis writers there, so we could discuss and ask each other questions.”
