Penny Morrill

BOOKS
2014    The Triumph of Sublime Love: The 16th Century Casa del Dean in Puebla, Mexico. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

2013    Modern Mexican Silver Designers as Artists. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing.

2011    Margot Van Voorhies: The Art of Mexican Enamelwork. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing.

2002    William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance: Maestros de Plata. Curator, editor. Exhibition catalog. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

1996    Silver Masters of Mexico: Héctor Aguilar and the Taller Borda. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing.

1994    Mexican Silver: 20th Century Handwrought Jewelry and Decorative Objects. Artistic direction, Carole A. Berk. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 4th ed. 2007.

1990    Hecho en Mexico. Washington, D. C.

1979    Who Built Alexandria? Exhibit catalog, Carlyle House Historic Park. Alexandria, VA.

ESSAYS IN BOOKS
2012    “The Alchemy of Pre-Columbian Art and Modernism in Mexican Silver Design.” México en Plata: Cinco Siglos de Identidad Compartida. On-Line Exhibit catalog, Museo Arocena, Torreón, Mexico.

2011    “The Pre-Conquest Aesthetic in Modern Mexican Silver.” Papers of the LIII Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (2008, published 2011): 247-255.

2006-07    Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient/Medieval World. Dallas, TX: Schlager Group Inc. Essays on pre-Columbian Metallurgy, Currency, Transportation, and Festivals.

2006    “The Queen of Heaven Reigns in New Spain: The Triumph of Eternity in the Casa del Deán Murals.” Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America, Brill Publishers anthology.

ARTICLES
2004    “William Spratling and His Marketing Ways.” Silver Magazine. XXXVI, 3 (May-June 2004): 2-9.

2004    “Sigi Pineda Tells His Story.” Ornament (Spring 2004).

2003    “Several Spratling Marks Revisited.” Silver Magazine. XXXV, 2 (Mar.-Apr. 2003): 32-7.

2002    “Defining William Spratling: A Twentieth-Century Humanist.” Ornament. 26, 1 (Fall 2002): 56-61.

2000    “William Spratling — A Lustrous Life.” Modernism Magazine (Fall 2000): 55-9.

1999    "RIC — A Designer in Mexican Silver Makes her Mark." Silver Magazine. XXXI, 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1999): 40-3.

1999    "Classical Elegance: The Mark of One Mexican Silver Designer." Silver Magazine. XXXI, 3 (May-June 1999): 28-31.

1997    "Hubert Harmon: Whimsy and Humor in Mexican Silver." Jewelry. Journal of the American Society of Jewelry Historians. 1 (1996-97): 64-77.

1996    "Mexican Handwrought Silver and Metalwork." New England Antiques Journal. XV, 5 (Nov. 1996): 16-8.

1996    "Mason, Burns and McAllister and Peggy Page: Two Newly Identified Mexican Silver Hallmarks." Silver Magazine. Vol. XXVIII, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb.1996): 10-2.

1995     "Mexican Silver." Antiques and the Arts Weekly. (Nov. 10, 1995): 1, 68-9.

1995     "Spratling/Silson Jewelry." Silver Magazine. XXVII, 2 (Mar.-Apr. 1995): 12-5.

1994     "The Artistry of Mexican Silver." The Echoes Report. 3, 2 (Fall 1994): 24-5, 27, 30.

1994     "Mexican Silver: Beauty and Exoticism." Antiques West. 14, 9 (Sept 1994): 18,30.

1994     "Taxco 980: Mexican Silver from 1925-1995." Chicago Art Deco Society Quarterly. (Summer 1994): 20-6.

BOOK REVIEWS
2011    The Search for the Codex Cardona. Arnold J. Bauer. The Sixteenth Century Journal. Vol. XLII, No. 1 (Spring 2011): 203-204.

EDITORIAL
1984-87    Editor, the Victorian. Quarterly publication of the Victorian Society in America, Philadelphia, PA.

LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA
March 2012    “Iglesia Catedral as a Teaching Theater: Mesoamerica’s Areopagus.” Creating a Sense of Place. Renaissance Society of America, Washington, D.C.

July 2009    The Italianate Augustinian Convent in Acolman. International Congress of Americanists, Mexico, D.F.

March 2009    The Martyred Children of Tlaxcala, Mexico. Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, CA

June 2008    The Pre-Conquest Aesthetic in Modern Mexican Silver. Seminar on Acquiring Latin American Library Materials [SALALM] LIII, New Orleans, LA

July 2006    Sibyls and Prophets at San Agustín Acolman: To Whom did they Prophesy?             International Congress of Americanists, Seville, Spain.

April 2005    Sibyls in Mexico: Prophesying the Coming of Redemption for all Humankind. Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, England.

July 2004    William Spratling [lecture] and William Spratling: The Exhibition [seminar]. Jewelry 2004: Antique and Period Jewelry and Gemstone Conference. Hofstra University, Long Island, New York.

Feb. 2003    Sibyls in 16th Century Mexico: Prophesying to the New Gentiles. Session: Pre-Columbian and Colonial Arts: Revivals and Reuses of the Past. College Art Association Annual Conference, New York.

Oct. 2002    El Maestro de las Sibilas: La Educación del Artista Indígena en Tlaxcala-Puebla en el Siglo XVI. El V Coloquio Internacional de Arte en Puebla, Mexico: Un Siglo de Arte y Arquitectura en Puebla, (1531 – 1639).

April 2002    The Indigenous “Architect” Francisco Gutiérrez and Francisco Becerra’s Purism in Puebla Mexico, c. 1580. Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Richmond, VA.

March 2002    Tomás de la Plaza en Oaxaca. Primeras Jornadas de Investigación, Puebla-Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.

March 2001    William Spratling’s Silver Designs: Towards a Mexican Style. Society of North American Goldsmiths National Conference, Richmond, VA.

Oct. 1999    Mexican Silver: Art of the Revolution or Appropriation? Southwest Art History Conference, Taos, NM.

SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
Apr. 2010    Italian Influence in Colonial Latin American Art and Architecture. Co-chair and Organizer. Renaissance Society of America Conference, Venice, Italy.

Oct. 2003    Cuauhquechollan — Huaquechula: A 16th Century Monastery in Mexico with a Past. Co-Chair of session on Mexican art. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Oct. 2002    Rhetoric of the Image: Metaphor, Memory, and Transcendence among Aztecs and 16th century Europeans. Chair of Session: Conveying Meaning: Figural Representation and Memory in Colonial Mexico. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, TX.

2002-04    Organizer and moderator of symposium, Maestros de Plata: Perspectives, San Antonio Museum of Art. Symposia at venues for Maestros de Plata: Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA; Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA; National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM; Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE.

PUBLIC LECTURES
Apr. 2007    Mexican Silver. International Society of Appraisers Conference, Dallas, Texas.

Nov-Dec 05    Modernism and Aztec Art: William Spratling Creates a Handwrought Industry in Mexico. Renwick Gallery for Elderhostel, Washington, D.C.

April 2005    Stellar Figures in Mexico’s Silver Town: William Spratling and Joshua Taylor in Taxco. Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.

Sept. 2004    Maestros de Plata: The Modern Mexican Silver Phenomenon. Hispanic Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.

Mar. 2004    William Spratling: A Pragmatic Visionary. Tulane University Latin American Library, New Orleans, LA.

Jan. 2004    William Spratling and Modern Mexican Silver Jewelry Design. The Society of Jewellery Historians, London.

Apr. 2000    Mexican Silver Jewelry. The American Society of Jewelry Historians, American Craft Museum, New York City.

Nov. 1995    Mexican Silver. Smithsonian Associates, Washington, D.C.