1. Mary Vahey
vahey@optonline.net
EDUCATION
CUNY—Queens College
M.A. in Art History 1996
Thesis: “Sir Francis Seymour Haden: An Amateur Etcher Between Rembrandt and Whistler”
CUNY—Queens College
B.A. Honors in Art History 1994
Areas of Concentration: Modern Art
Key Honor Society, Deans List
Reading knowledge German and French
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR)
SUNY—Suffolk 1998—present
Modern Art, History of Art Survey I and II, Intro to Art, History of
Photography (including online/blackboard)
SUNY—Nassau 2011—present
Renaissance, Baroque, Introduction to Art, Survey I and II (including
online/blackboard)
New York Institute of Technology 2003—2011
Modern Art, Survey of Art History I and II
Hofstra University 2003—2011
Art History Survey I and II
LIU—Southampton 1998
19th
Century Art History
CUNY—Queens College 2004
Introduction to Art
CUNY--Queensborough Community College 2004-2005
Introduction to Art, History of Graphic Design
Molloy College 2005
Introduction to Art
RELATED EXPERIENCE
CUNY—Queens 2001 and 1994
Visual Resource Curator
Westbury Library 2000—2001
Freelance Curator
Archive collection.
Whirlwind & Company (museum design firm) 2000—present
The Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future
Selected, negotiated and acquired all visual images representing the history of
women in the United States
Madison Square Garden: Great Moments in Garden History
Selected all visual images for pictorial timeline of 130 years of MSG history
juxtaposed with major events in the city’s history
Working Women: New York Junior League
Exhibition curator at the Museum of the City of New York.
R/GA Retrospective
Art Directors Club award to Robert Greenberg—archival research and
exhibition
National Parks Service: Sandy Hook Visitors Center
Historian and image curator

2. Staley—Wise Gallery 1998—1999
Freelance Collection Manager
Researched and updated computers, organized fashion photography collection
International Center of Photography 1997—1998
Assistant Curator
Cow Neck Historical Society 1995—1997
Curator
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
Francis Seymour Haden: An Amateur Etcher Between Rembrandt and Whistler
A Hidden History: Slavery, Abolition and the Underground Railroad on Cow Neck and Long Island
A Tour of the Sands—Willets House
LECTURES
Neo-Impressionism and Signac
Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line
Gauguin in New York Collections
Richard Avedon Portraits
Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry
Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party
Whistler, Women and Fashion
Manet/Velazquez: Spanish Influence on French Painting
Max Beckmann
Ansel Adams
Modigliani
Brancusi
Romare Bearden
Georgia O’Keeffe
Highlights of the Frick Collection
Diane Arbus
Angelica Kauffmann
El Greco
Cezanne
Highlights of the Frick Collection
Highlights of the Neue Galerie
Highlights of the ‘new’ MoMA Galleries