Patricia Moss
EDUCATION
M.A., Art History, Universityof Missouri–Kansas City
- Studied with Dr. Charles C. Eldredge, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture, University of Kansas and Emeritus Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art; Director, 1982-1988
M.A., History, University of Missouri – Kansas City
B.A., Philosophy, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Authentication of a New Portrait by George Caleb Bingham: Portrait of a Lady (Mary Jane Thompson DeCourcy?), 1845, private commission, in progress
Authentication of a New Portrait by George Caleb Bingham: Judge Ephraim Allison, 1872, private commission
Authentication of a New Portrait by George Caleb Bingham: Mrs. Henry Neill (Sarah Ann [Sallie] Elliott), c. 1850s, private commission
Authentication of a New Portrait by William Morrison Hughes, 1849, (De-authentication of previous mis-attribution to George Caleb Bingham) private commission, October, 2011
Authentication of a New Portrait by Manuel Joachim de França: Judge James Turner Vance Thompson, 1849, (De-authentication of previous mis-attribution to George Caleb Bingham) private commission, September 2011
Authentication of a New Portrait by George Caleb Bingham: James Sidney Rollins, 1854/1855, August 2011
Authentication of a New Portrait by William Morrison Hughes: Portrait of a Young Man, 1849 (De-authentication of previous mis-attribution to George Caleb Bingham), Ashby-Hodge Gallery of American Art, Central Methodist University, Fayette, Missouri, July 2011
Re-attribution of nine portraits, all previously attributed to George Caleb Bingham: four to George Caleb Bingham, two to William Morrison Hughes, two to “the Monumental Artist of Clay County, Missouri,” and one to George Calder Eichbaum, for William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, July 2011
Analysis of George Caleb Bingham’s Portrait of a Man of Missouri’s Boon’s Lick, private commission, July 2011
George Caleb Bingham’s Order No. 11, invited presentation to Kansas City Civil War Round Table, March, 2011
George Caleb Bingham, An Art Detective, and Genealogy, invited presentation to the Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Missouri, March 2011, video on-line at http://www.mymcpl.org/blog/george-caleb-bingham
Authentication of a New Portrait by George Caleb Bingham: John A. Trigg, 1844, private commission, January 2011
Authentication of a New Portrait by William Morrison Hughes: Louise Moore Doan, 1849 (De-authentication of previous mis-attribution to George Caleb Bingham, 1835), Friends of Arrow Rock Arrow Rock, Missouri, July 2010
Consultant, Steamboats to Steam Engines: Bingham’s Missouri: 1819-1879, (Exhibit March 10, 2011 – September 8, 2011), Truman Presidential Museum, Independence, Missouri, 2009-2010
Acknowledged for research help by Burton Dunbar, German And Netherlandish Paintings 1450-1600, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, February 2006
“Memory of the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri through Art,”ShawneeIndianMission,ShawneeMission,Kansas, March 2006
Acknowledged for research help by Paul C. Nagel in George Caleb Bingham: Missouri’s Famed Painter and Forgotten Politician,University of Missouri Press, 2005
“Understanding Missouri Regionalism through Art,”Missouri Folklore Society, 2004 Conference,SoutheastMissouriStateUniversity, November 2004
“Art as a Portal as to Memory of the Civil and Border Wars in Missouri and Kansas: A Comparison of the Missouri & Kansas Statehouse Murals of Thomas Hart Benton & John Steuart Curry,” 26th Annual Mid-America Conference on History, Southwest Missouri State University, October 2004
“A Connoisseur’s Guide to the Portraits of George Caleb Bingham,” 97-page guide to identification of portraits of George Caleb Bingham, August 2004
“Analysis of the Portrait of Fannie Medora Sombart,” 100-page illustrated analysis requested and presented to Bingham-Waggoner Estate, Independence, Missouri, October 2003
Henry Bridges Jefferson, “My Colorado Experience: 1869” transcribed and edited by Patricia Jefferson Moss, Colorado Heritage, Summer 2003
History of the Guinotte & Harris Families, Kansas City, Missouri, privately published 100-page illustrated family history, December 2002
“George Caleb Bingham & Dr. John Sappington,” The Westporter, Kansas City, Missouri: Westport Historical Society, September 2002
“The Bingham Portrait Project,” The Jackson County Historical Society Journal, Independence, Missouri: Jackson County Historical Society, Vol. 41, No. 2, Autumn 2001
“The Portraits of George Caleb Bingham Reveal a Different History of Greater Kansas City,” Kawsmouth: A Journal Of Regional History, Kansas City Regional History Institute, University of Missouri – Kansas City, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter- Spring 2001
Advisor, Uniquely Kansas City: A History Of The Arts, produced by Carol Mickett and Dan Diefenderfer, Kansas City Public Television – KCPT-TV, 2001
PRESS
Jeff Fox, “Another Bingham Portrait Could Be Authenticated,” (Judge Ephraim Allison), The Examiner, March 22, 2011, http://www.examiner.net/features/x713430515/Another-Bingham-portrait-could-be-authenticated
Steve Paul, “Unsigned Binghams Surprise Art World,” Kansas City Star, March 21, 2011, Quote repeated in at least eleven other media news sources.
Cate Gable, “Local seeks out historic works from her home,” Chinook Observer, (Long Beach, Washington, October 2010)
Nicole Semenchuk, “The Bingham Lady,” Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Research and Scholars’ Center Newsletter (Spring 2010), http://www.americanart.si.edu/research/newsletters/rscnewsletter_spring10.pdf
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Association of Historians of American Art