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Allen W. Clowes Fellowship

Named in honor of philanthropist, civic leader, arts patron, and business executive Allen W. Clowes, the Clowes fellowship has been awarded annually to a fine arts scholar since 1998. Clowes was the son of the eminent chemist and research director of Eli Lilly, Dr. George H.A. Clowes, and Mrs. Edith Clowes, a leading figure in Indianapolis education and the arts. Clowes studied at Harvard University and became a Naval officer during World War II. His business career included specialization in oil investments and executive leadership of philanthropic, community, and arts organizations.

The fellowship was endowed by the Clowes Fund Inc., the family’s charitable trust where Clowes served as the President and Treasurer. The Fund’s primary goal is to perpetuate the care and public display of the Clowes Collection of art and a broad mandate to support education and the literary, fine, and performing arts.

1998–1999	Jaroslav T. Folda	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land: 1187–1291
1999–2000	Susan Langdon	University of Missouri, Columbia	Gender and Society in Early Iron Age Greece
2000–2001	Dominic M. Lopes	Indiana University, Kokomo	Life Drawing: Pictures, Perception and Value
2001–2002	Nicholas Frankel	Virginia Commonwealth University	The Discourse of Decoration: Ornament and Design in Victorian Britain
2002–2003	Annabel J. Wharton	Duke University	Selling Jerusalem: Towards an Historical Economy of Images
2003–2004	Carolina Bruzelius	Duke University	The Mendicant Challenge and the Cathedral Response: Lay Burial and its Impact on the Medieval City
2004–2005	Bruce Redford	Boston University	Dilettani: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England
2005–2006	Brenda Schildgen	University of California, Davis	Heritage or Heresy: Preservation and Destruction of the Cultural and Natural Environment
2006–2007	Zsusanna Gulásci	Northern Arizona University	Formation of Mediaeval Book Art in West and Central Asia
2007–2008	Isabel Wünsche	International University, Bremen, Germany	Organic Visions in Modernism: The Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde
2008–2009	Nicholas Bock	University of Lausanne	About Titles
2009–2010	Irena Dżurkowa-Kossowska	Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw	Reinventing Historic Styles: Central European Art in the 1920s and 1930s
2010–2011	Lawrence Nees	University of Delaware	Essays in the Margins of Early Islamic Art
2011–2012	Susan Webster	College of William & Mary	The Conquest of European Architecture: Andean Masters and the Construction of Colonial Quito
2012–2013	Marcia Kupfer	Independent Scholar	From Panoramic Survey to Mirror Reflection: Art and Optics in the Hereford Mappa Mundi
2013–2014	Louise Rice	New York University	Conclusions: Art for the Academic Defense in Seventeenth-Century Rome
2014–2015	Bonna Wescoat	Emory University	The Sanctuary of the Great Gods
2015–2016	Kate Flint	University of Southern California	Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination
2016–2017	Nancy Wicker	University of Mississippi	Viking Arts in Scaninavia and across the Viking Diaspora: Patrons, Producers, and Consumers from the Fifth Through the Eleventh Centuries
2017–2018	Ann Reynolds	University of Texas at Austin	In Our Time
2018–2019	Weihong Bao	University of California, Berkeley	Background Matters: Set Design and the Art of Environment in Modern China
2019–2020	James van Dyke	University of Missouri, Columbia	The Social Production of Otto Dix
2020–2021	Mrinalini Rajagopalan	University of Pittsburgh	Marks She Made: The Art and Architecture of Begum Samru, 1803–1836
2021–2022	Maggie M. Cao	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Painting and the Making of American Empire‚ 1830–1898
2022–2023	Catherine Roach	Virginia Commonwealth University	The Shadow Museum: A History of the British Institution, 1805–1867
2023–2024	Abigail Susik	Willamette University	Afrosurrealism and Anti-racism
2024–2025	Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis	Indiana University Bloomington	“To Rival the Temple of Solomon”: Splendid Churches and Bishops in Early Christianity