Ann Marguerite Tartsinis

Ann studies twentieth-century American art, fashion, and craft. Her current research concerns the relationship between fashion and ethnographic photography in the United States and abroad during the interwar period. Her dissertation contends that the understudied so-called scrapbooks of Cecil Beaton (1904-80), Walker Evans (1903–75), and George Platt Lynes (1907-55) are a means by which to reassess the established boundaries and categorical divisions of photography between the wars. This project has received support from Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, The Mellon Foundation, and the Terra Foundation of American Art.

Prior to attending Stanford, Ann was an associate curator at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York where she organized a number of design and material culture exhibitions. Her publications include Knoll Textiles: 1945-2011 (Yale UP, 2011) and An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915-1928 (Yale UP, 2013) as well as “The Magic in the Dyepot: Mable Morrow, Alice Kagawa Parrott, and the Sites of Exchange in Modern Weaving” which appeared in the summer 2018 issue of The Journal of Modern Craft. She has contributed review articles to Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body, & Culture, The Winterthur Portfolio, and DRESS. Ann is currently co-editing a special issue of Fashion Studies with Sarah Scaturro and collaborating with Professor Nancy J. Troy on the forthcoming book project, Mondrian's Dress: Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art (MIT Press, 2023).