Jeffrey Hughes

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Director, Hunt Gallery Professor Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts Department of Art, Design, and Art History St. Louis Main Campus, Missouri hughesja@webster.edu Office: (314) 968-7159
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Bio/Research

Jeffrey Hughes is Professor of Art history and Criticism and Director of the Cecille R. Hunt Gallery at Webster University in St. Louis where he teaches courses on modern art, German Expressionism, contemporary art, and art theory and criticism. Hughes is a recipient of numerous grants and fellow...

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Bio/Research

Jeffrey Hughes is Professor of Art history and Criticism and Director of the Cecille R. Hunt Gallery at Webster University in St. Louis where he teaches courses on modern art, German Expressionism, contemporary art, and art theory and criticism. Hughes is a recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including Kress Foundation Fellowships for field research in India and to the Aga Khan program at Harvard, the Asian Cultural Council Grant, Webster University faculty research grants, and an N.E.H. grant for research on the American avant-garde during World War II. He has curated many exhibitions at Hunt Gallery and also at Wittgensteinhaus, Vienna, Austria and has been a quest lecturer at numerous galleries and institutions, including University of North Texas, Indiana University, University of Chicago, and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Hughes’s articles and reviews have appeared in Flash Art, Contemporary, Sculpture, Artpapers, Art on Paper, New Art Examiner etc. He attended DePauw University and received the B.A. in art history from Indiana State University and both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in art history from the University of Iowa.

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