About
Sarah Lund is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University. Her dissertation in progress is titled “Matrices: Female Printmakers in Revolutionary France" and focuses on female engravers, etchers, and lithographers during the French revolution of 1789 and its aftermath, a period marked by political upheaval, advancing print technologies, and the exclusion of women from official citizenship despite ideals of equality and liberty. Her project argues that female artists found in their printmaking processes and material engagement the ability to work through and disrupt gender binaries and biases. In foregrounding female printmakers and print’s entanglements with gender, this dissertation departs from current scholarship on female artists that prioritizes painting and recovery over specific material engagement, and from scholarship on print that sees its primary relationship to politics as a disseminator. Instead, Sarah attends to print’s ability to disrupt politics rather than merely transmit it and to how female printmakers’ navigated gender biases through their media.
Sarah earned her B.A. in Art History and Government from Dartmouth College in 2016 and holds an M.A. from Harvard. From 2016-2018, she was the Technical Art Historian and Research Coordinator for the new Scientific Research Department of Sotheby’s New York, where she assisted with the technical, art historical, and provenance research of works coming to sale from all specialist departments. Sarah's research has been supported by the École normale supérieure, New York Public Library, Huntington Library, Decorative Arts Trust, and Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Graduate Society, and Smith Foundation. Her curatorial experience includes work at the Getty Research Institute, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Harvard Art Museums. Sarah is also the current Membership Coordinator for the Association of Print Scholars.