I recently began a seven-month position as the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Provenance Researcher. My appointment makes Cleveland one of only a few museums in the United States that have a dedicated provenance researcher—an important step that more museums should be taking in the pursuit of tho...
In graduate school, my art historical interests shifted once again; this time from England and France to Italy, and from the nineteenth century to the eighteenth. I decided to write my doctoral dissertation on Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s Punchinello drawings (more on those in a future post). A...
How and why did I decide to study art history? I didn’t have the opportunity to study art history in high school, although my mom was always getting me art books from the library when I was young; my absolute favorite was Marc Brown and Laurene Krasny Brown’s Visiting the Art Museum, with ...