Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto
Amy C. Wallace is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation, entitled “Studio of Nature: The Transformation of Artists’ Studios, 1845–1910,” examines the impact of outdoor painting and conceptions of the natural environment on nineteenth-century artists’ studios in Britain, France, and the United States. This research has been supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Scholarship, a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, as well as by the Terra Foundation for American Art, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, and the University of Toronto. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art in
Europe and North America and has delivered papers at conferences throughout Canada, the United States, France, and Mexico.