Hollis Clayson
Affiliation
Hollis Clayson is the author of Painted Love: Prostitution and French Art of the Impressionist Era, Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life Under Siege(1870–71), and Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque. A Chevalier in the French Order of the Academic Palms, she is professor emerita at Northwestern University and was the 2024 College Art Association Distinguished Scholar.