ROBERT S. MATTISON'S AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST and expertise include contemporary art and nineteenth-century drawing, painting, architecture, and sculpture.

He is the author of three books on the work of contemporary painters, Masterworks: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella in the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, (Hudson Hills Press, 1995), Grace Hartigan: A Painter's World (Hudson Hills Press, 1990), and Robert Motherwell: The Formative Years (UMI Research Press, 1987).

He is currently completing Breaking Boundaries: Robert Rauschenberg Studies. He has also authored numerous articles, essays, and exhibition catalogs.

Mattison has organized some 15 exhibitions, including, most recently, shows of works by Richard Anuszkiewicz, Gregory Gillespie, Philip Guston, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Frank Stella, and Mies van de Rohe.

A member of the Lafayette faculty since 1981, Mattison was named Metzgar Professor in 2001. He has taught a dozen art history courses and several interim-session courses in Vienna, Austria, on fin-de-siecle art. He has involved students in his research and advised independent studies and honors theses. Last year he advised an independent study by Jennifer Gibbs '02 on the ideological divide between the arts community and The Republican Party, proposing the return of arts funding decisions to the states.

He has been the recipient of two major College-wide awards at Lafayette, the Sears-Roebuck Award for superior teaching and scholarship (1991) and the Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Faculty Lecture Award in recognition of excellence in teaching and scholarship (1988). He has also received several grants and fellowships.