ELIZA GOODPASTURE

Research Fellow (Western Art) 20th-Century British Drawings

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Email: eliza.goodpasture@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

Biography

Eliza is the research fellow at the Ashmolean responsible for researching and cataloguing the Museum’s collection of British drawings from 1900-1945. This project is generously funded by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust.

She completed her PhD in 2024 at the University of York, where her research examined friendship between women artists working in Britain around the turn of the 20th century as a form of creative collaboration as well as a rehabilitative research methodology. 

Eliza has given talks and lectures at various institutions around the UK, including the National Gallery, Paul Mellon Centre, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, and York Art Gallery. She has held positions at Art UK, the York Museums Trust, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Frick Collection, and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. She writes often for magazines and newspapers including the Guardian, Financial Times, Art in America, and elsewhere.

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Eliza's research interests include British art of the 19th and 20th centuries, the field of feminist art history, friendships, networks, and relationships among artists, and the historiography of women artists. 

20th-Century British drawings; Feminist Art History

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