Elly Miller, co-founder in 1968 with her husband Harvey of Harvey Miller Publishers, passed away on August 8, 2020. She was the daughter of Béla Horovitz, the co-founder of Phaidon Press, which [...] Read More
Personalia
In Memoriam: J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer (1935–2020)
Johan Rudolph Justus van Asperen de Boer’s career and scientific contributions span several academic fields. It was as a physicist and conservation scientist that he developed the technique of [...] Read More
In Memoriam: Jane Campbell Hutchison (1937-2020)
Jane Hutchison received her MA in Art History from Oberlin College in 1958 under Wolfgang Stechow and her PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964 under James S. Watrous, with a [...] Read More
In Memoriam: J. Richard Judson (1925-2020)
July 5, 1925–June 29, 2020 I first met J. Richard Judson as I sat in a darkened classroom at Smith College. I was seeing art in a new way as Jud led us through a painting. I will talk about his [...] Read More
In Memoriam: Anthony Bailey (1933-2020)
Anthony Bailey was a longtime New Yorker magazine writer who wrote about Rembrandt, J. M. W. Turner and other artists. He died from the novel coronavirus. He has been remembered in the New York [...] Read More
In Memoriam: Hester Diamond (1928-2020)
A personal account of a precious friendship from Maryan Ainsworth. I first met Hester Diamond in 1991 when I was a Guest Scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum, then in Malibu. In her typical fashion, [...] Read More
In Memoriam: Rüdiger Klessman (1927-2020)
Rüdiger Klessmann, the distinguished German art historian and museum curator, died on March 30th, 2020 at the age of 93. Klessmann was born in Lemgo and studied the history of art at [...] Read More
In Memoriam: Annaliese Mayer-Meintschel (1928-2020)
On April 23, 2020, Annaliese Mayer-Meintschel, longtime director of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, passed away at her home in Dresden-Loschwitz. Her actions, thoughts and [...] Read More
HNA Reception at CAA 2020
Photographs from the HNA Reception at CAA 2020, held at the Chicago Hilton on Feb. 14, 2020. [...] Read More
New HNA Board Members 2020–2024
We are pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to the HNA Board, for 2020–2024. Olenka Horbatsch is a specialist in Dutch and Flemish works on paper of the sixteenth and seventeenth [...] Read More
2020 HNA Fellowships Awarded
We are happy to announce the awardees of our 2020 HNA Fellowships. This year, for the first time, we have awarded both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships, in order to continue our efforts to [...] Read More
Clark Art Institute Names Caroline Fowler as Director of its Research and Academic Program
Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute, announced the appointment of Caroline Fowler to serve as the Starr Director of its Research and Academic Program (RAP). Fowler joined the [...] Read More
Jacquelyn N. Coutré Appointed Associate Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago
After an extensive international search, the Art Institute of Chicago announced the appointment of Dr. Jacquelyn N. Coutré as the new Eleanor Wood Prince Associate Curator of European Painting and [...] Read More
National Gallery of Art Appoints Betsy Wieseman as Curator and Head of the Department of Northern European Paintings
The National Gallery of Art announced that Betsy Wieseman will join the museum as curator and head of the department of northern European paintings. Wieseman is currently chair of European art from [...] Read More
Krannert Art Museum Builds World-Class Collection of Dutch Political Prints
The Krannert Art Museum (KAM) has amassed the largest museum collection of early modern Dutch political prints outside of Europe, thanks to strategic acquisitions guided by Dr. Maureen Warren, KAM’s [...] Read More