Linda MerrillDirector of Undergraduate StudiesSenior Lecturer
Education
Ph.D., University of London, 1985
Research Interests
- Art and literature in late 19th-century England
- Aestheticism and japonisme
- 19th-century American painting
Selected Publications
 | Palaces of Art, Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism. Edited by Lee Glazer and Linda Merrill. Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013. |
 | Editor and primary author. After Whistler: The Artist & His Influence on American Painting. Exhibition catalogue, with contributions by Lacey Taylor Jordan, Marc Simpson, Robyn Asleson, John Siewert, Sylvia Yount, and Lee Glazer. New Haven: Yale University Press and the High Museum of Art, 2003. |
 | The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 1998. Awarded Historians of British Art Book Prize for the best book in English on& British art and architecture in the nineteenth century, 2000. |
 | With Kindest Regards: The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890–1903. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. |
 | Freer: A Legacy of Art, with Thomas Lawton. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1993. |
 | A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992; reprint 1993 |
 | An Ideal Country: Paintings by Dwight William Tryon in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art in association with The University Press of New England, 1990. |
Current research and works in progress
"Mr. Whistler's 'Ten O'Clock'": The Performance of Art
Albert Herter and the Great War: The End of the Gilded Age
"The Better Homes Movement in America, 1933-1936: Bungalows, Politics, and Home Economics"
