Meaghan Walsh
PhD Candidate
EmailMeaghan M. Walsh is a doctoral candidate specializing in early twentieth-century American art and visual culture. Her research examines the intersections of race, identity, and humor in turn-of-the-twentieth century American painting and illustration. Her dissertation project, “Modern Masquerades: Realism, Humor, and Identity in the Works of George Luks,” analyzes how the American artist, George Luks (1867–1933) used masquerade, caricature, and satire to explore the formation of modern American identities in New York City in the early 1900s. Meaghan received a BA in Art History and English from UVA and an MA in Art History from the University of Kansas. She has co-curated a number of exhibitions, including Unexpected O’Keeffe: The Virginia Watercolors and Later Paintings at the Fralin Museum of Art and Beyond Dreamings: The Rise of Indigenous Australian Art in the United States at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA.