Consultants & Contributors

Consultants

Sarah Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus in the Department of History of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington. Burns is a cultural historian who has written widely on the topic of 19th-Century art and the marketplace, and is author of Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America. 

Lee Glazer, Associate Curator of American Art, Freer|Sackler Galleries of Art. Glazer was the co-editor of James McNeill Whistler in Context (2008) and East West Interchanges in American Art (2012) and was a contributor to After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting (2004).  Glazer was the coordinating curator for the international exhibition “An American in London: Whistler and the Thames” at the Sackler Gallery of Art.

Linda Merrill, Lecturer, Art History Department, Emory University. Merrill’s writings on Whistler include the Whistler-Ruskin trial, The Peacock Room, and the correspondence between Whistler and Charles Lang Freer. She curated the “After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting” exhibition (2004) for the High Museum in Atlanta, and the Detroit Institute of Art. She was Curator of American Art at the Freer Gallery from 1986 — 1998.

Daniel E. Sutherland, Professor of History, University of Arkansas. Sutherland is a historian of the 19th-Century (Civil War and Reconstruction, British History, Military History), and recently published an authoritative biography on Whistler, James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life For Art’s Sake (2014). Professor Sutherland is particularly interested in the social and cultural aspects of Whistler’s era.

Martha Tedeschi, Deputy Director for Art and Research, Art Institute of Chicago. An authority on Whistler’s lithographs and etchings, Tedeschi is general editor and co-author of the catalogue raisonné of the lithographs. She has published and lectured widely on Whistler’s lithography, and on the print market in 19th-Century England.

Nigel Thorp, Director of the Centre for Whistler Studies, University of Glasgow, during its existence (1992-2006),served as Project Director for the Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. Thorp was co-organizer, Whistler Centenary International Conference, University of Glasgow, 2003, and was general editor of The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, On-line Centenary Edition, University of Glasgow of 10,000 letters.

Contributors

Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University. Among Barringer’s specializations are the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-Century art of Britain and the British Empire, and nineteenth-century American art. His books include Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (1998), Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (2005). He was co-curator of the “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde” exhibition at Tate Britain (2012) and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (2013.)

Sarah Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus in the Department of History of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington. Burns is a cultural historian who has written widely on the topic of 19th-Century art and the marketplace, and is author of Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America. 

Stephen Calloway, Curator and Historian, Decadent Culture. Calloway is an expert on 19th-Century art, and has made a particular study of the decadent and dandy culture of the fin de siècle. Formerly a curator of paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, his publications include The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde 1860-1900, and The Exquisite Life of Oscar Wilde.

Gordon Cooke, The Fine Art Society, London. Cooke has been a print dealer for over 30 years, specializing in 19th- & 20th-Century British prints. He joined The Fine Art Society in 1997. Cooke has organized five exhibitions of Whistler’s work, the most recent in 2007, and has authored several catalogues on Whistler’s etchings.

David Park Curry, senior curator of Decorative Arts, American Painting & Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art, specializes in American and European art of the late 19th- and early 20th-Centuries. He is particularly interested in exploring cultural crossroads where art, decoration, and commerce intersect.  A former curator at the Freer Gallery of Art, Dr. Curry has written several books on Whistler, including James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery (1984) and James McNeill Whistler: Easy Pieces (2004), organized a Whistler retrospective at the Freer in 1983, and the exhibition “Mr. Whistler’s Galleries” (2004).

Lee Glazer, Associate Curator of American Art, Freer|Sackler Galleries of Art. Glazer was the co-editor of James McNeill Whistler in Context (2008) and East West Interchanges in American Art (2012) and was a contributor to After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting (2004). Glazer was the coordinating curator for the international exhibition “An American in London: Whistler and the Thames” at the Sackler Gallery of Art.

Margaret F. MacDonald, Professor Emerita and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, History of Art, Glasgow University. She is project director of a recently completed research project to produce an online catalogue raisonné of Whistler’s etchings. MacDonald has written several books on aspects of Whistler’s work, and was co-curator (with Patricia de Montfort) of the exhibition “An American in London: Whistler and the Thames.”

Linda Merrill, Lecturer, Art History Department, Emory University. Merrill’s writings on Whistler include the Whistler-Ruskin trial, The Peacock Room, and the correspondence between Whistler and Charles Lang Freer. She curated the “After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting” exhibition (2004) for the High Museum in Atlanta, and the Detroit Institute of Art. Merrill was Curator of American Art at the Freer Gallery from 1986 — 1998.

Joyce Hill Stoner, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Material Culture, University of Delaware, and Adjunct Paintings Conservator, Winterthur Museum.Stoner is an expert on the techniques of paintings, lithographs and decorated interiors by James McNeill Whistler. Stoner was senior conservator for the team treating Whistler’s Peacock Room at the Freer from 1987 to 1992.

Daniel E. Sutherland, Professor of History, University of Arkansas. Sutherland is a historian of the 19th-Century (Civil War and Reconstruction, British History, Military History), and recently published an authoritative biography on Whistler, James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life For Art’s Sake (2014). Professor Sutherland is particularly interested in the social and cultural aspects of Whistler’s era.