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
Personalia
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