Janice SimonJanice Simon is the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia Lamar School of Art, where her teaching focus is on the art of the United States from colonial times through World War II. She received her M.A and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Michigan. Professor Simon has taught a wide variety of subjects related to American art on both the undergraduate and graduate levels including American landscape painting. She has been honored with numerous teaching awards including the University of Georgia’s most prestigious distinction, the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship. She has contributed to many art publications and periodicals including
Crossroads in American Impressionism at the Turn of the Century; Classical Ground: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painters and the Italian Encounter and Images of Contentment: John Fredrick Kensett and the Connecticut Shore. She looks forward to delving in to the rich history and dramatic works of some of Maine’s most famous artists, including three generations of the Wyeth family, Winslow Homer, Frederic Church, and Thomas Cole.