John Wilmerding
John Currie Wilmerding, (born 1938), is an American art professor and curator whose writings on American art have made him one of the most defining and highly regarded figures within the field.[1]
Biography
Educated at Harvard, Wilmerding received his A. B. in 1960, his masters in 1961 and his Ph.D., in 1965.[2] He served senior curator from 1977 to 1983 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and deputy director from 1983 to 1988.[2] Wilmerding currently serves the Christopher Binyon Sarofim Professor of American Art at Princeton.[2] At the opening of the National Gallery of Art's "American Masters from Bingham to Eakins" exhibit Wilmerding announced that his entire collection of art, consisting of works from nearly a dozen famous American artists,[nb 1] would remain at the museum.[1] His contribution added many examples of art the museum had not yet acquired.[1]
Publications
- American Marine Painting (Harry N. Abrams, 1987)
- American Views (Princeton University Press, 1991)
- The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast (Princeton University Press, 1994)
- Compass and Clock (Harry N. Abrams, 1999)
- Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Painting (Yale University Press, 2003)
References
- Notes
- ^ Some of the artists whose work was part of his collection: Martin Johnson Heade, Fitz Hugh Lane, John F. Peto, Joseph Decker, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Frederic Edwin Church, George Caleb Bingham, and John F. Kensett, and works by various artists who visited Maine's Mount Desert Island.[1]
- References
- ^ a b c d "American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection". National Gallery of Art. United States Government. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ a b c "John Wilmerding's Profile". Dictionary of Art Historians.org. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
External Links
- Biography of John Wilmerding, National Gallery of Art.