Maryan Ainsworth, Curator of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been appointed the Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the [...] Read More
Personalia
Sam Segal (1933-2018)
On 11 June 2018, Dr. Sam Segal passed away at his home in Norwich (Norfolk). Segal was an academic biologist and art historian, who specialized in flower still-lifes. Sam Segal majored in Biology [...] Read More
Arthur K. Wheelock Retires from the National Gallery of Art
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art has announced his retirement. Wheelock came to the National Gallery of Art in 1973 as the David E. Finley [...] Read More
Anke Van Wagenberg’s Book Presentation
Painting for Princes: Dutch Art by Jan Baptist Weenix & Jan Weenix Presented by: Anke Van Wagenberg, Ph.D Academy Art Museum 106 South Street, Easton, MD Friday, May 18, 6 p.m Anke Van [...] Read More
Willibald Sauerländer (1924-2018)
On April 18th, Willibald Sauerländer passed away. Although primarily an art historian of late-medieval France, he also made significant contributions to the field of Flemish art history with Der [...] Read More
Invitation to the Opening of ‘Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection’
Master Class: Northern European Art 1500–1700 from the Permanent Collection, will be on view April 27–September 2, 2018 at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College For more [...] Read More
Festschrift Published in Honor of Susan Donahue Kuretsky
Table of Contents Introduction, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Essays Wrestling with the Devil in the Details: Illuminating the Life of Saint Margaret in a Fourteenth-Century Book of Hours, Maeve [...] Read More
Austėja Mackelaitė named Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum
On April 2, Austėja Mackelaitė will join the Morgan as Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints responsible for the Northern European drawings and prints from 1400-1900. Along with her colleagues in [...] Read More
Maryan Ainsworth Appointed Robert Janson-La Palme Visiting Professor at Princeton University
Maryan Ainsworth is the Robert Janson-La Palme Visiting Professor at Princeton University, where she will lead seminars on the intersections between Northern Renaissance Painting and technical art [...] Read More
Otto Naumann Announces his Retirement and Sale of his Private Collection
Otto Naumann, a formative figure in the collecting and dealing of Old Master paintings, announced his retirement. He also will be selling his collection at Sotheby’s, which will be on view from [...] Read More
Elmer Kolfin to Lead RKD’s ‘Moving Masters’ Research Program
The RKD ─ Netherlands Institute for Art History and the University of Amsterdam have announced the appointment of dr. Elmer Kolfin as the RKD’s new leader of its research program Moving Masters. Art [...] Read More
George S. Abrams Knighted, Donates 330 Drawings to Harvard
The Kingdom of the Netherlands appointed George S. Abrams as Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He received the royal decoration in recognition of his important contribution to the study of Dutch [...] Read More
Life and Career of Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann Celebrated
(updated 6 November 2017)The children of Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann hosted a celebration of the life and career of their father on 29 October, 2017, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. [...] Read More
Ilona van Tuinen Appointed Curator of Drawings in Rijksprentenkabinet
Ilona van Tuinen, who is currently the Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, has been appointed Curator of 16th- and 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Drawings in [...] Read More
Marrigje Rikken Appointed as Head of Collections at Frans Hals Museum/De Hallen, Haarlem
On October 1, 2017, Dr. Marrigje Rikken began her position as Head of Collections at the Frans Hals Museum / De Hallen, Haarlem. Rikken was Associate Curator of Old Art at the Frans Hals Museum since [...] Read More