Join Wellesley’s French House in welcoming writer and historian Hollis Clayson ’68 for a virtual lecture.

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Hollis Clayson ’68 is Professor Emerita of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor Emerita in the Humanities at Northwestern University. She has published widely on Paris-based art practices, including the French capital’s large population of artists from elsewhere. Her books include Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (1991); Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life Under Siege (1870-71)(2002); co-edited with André Dombrowski, Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850-1900, (2016); and Paris Illuminated: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque, (2019). Her current book project considers the visibility and reception of the Eiffel Tower.