Morning Glory Ritchie is a first-year PhD student focusing on seventeenth-century Northern European painting. Her current research investigates still lifes, object collecting, and material culture. Morning Glory is also curious about interrogating the pride of Dutch local commodities, industry, and how this is tied to national sovereign identity as a way of understanding broader global issues.
Morning Glory received her Bachelor of Arts degree with a triple major in Art History, Italian, and Art, along with a minor in Classical Civilization, from the R.D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon in 2022. Then, Morning Glory received her Master of Arts in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University, where she wrote her thesis, “For the Love of Herring!”: The Interplay of Local Identity and Imperialistic Control in the Dutch Still Life. Morning Glory has held internships at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the Springfield History Museum, the Palmer Museum of Art, and the Center for Virtual and Material Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.
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