Giles Waterfield
Giles Adrian Waterfield | |
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| Born | 24 July 1949[1] |
| Died | 5 November 2016 (aged 67)[2] |
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| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Courtauld Institute of Art |
| Genre | Fiction |
Giles Waterfield (24 July 1949 – 5 November 2016) was a British, McKitterick Prize winning novelist, art historian and curator.[3][4]
Personal life and education
Giles Waterfield spent his childhood in Paris and Geneva,
Career
In 1971 Giles Waterfield began his one-year work as an assistant teacher at the Merz-Schule, Stuttgart. From 1976 until 1979 he worked as Education Services Officer at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. In 1979 he became the (first) Director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, where he remained until 1996. After that he was an independent curator, writer and university lecturer.
His consultancies included
He was Associate Scholar at The Courtauld Institute of Art.
From 1994 Giles Waterfield was involved in the activity of the Attingham Trust, as Joint Director of the Attingham Summer School (1994–2003) and since 1995 as Director of Royal Collection Studies. He was an Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art[6] and also taught at the University of Notre Dame (London center) and Arcadia University (in London).
Waterfield curated numerous exhibitions, notably Soane and After (
Works
- The Long Afternoon (2000)
- The Hound In the Left Hand Corner (2002)
- Markham Thorpe (2006)
- The Iron Necklace (2015)
Art publications
- Soane and After: The Architecture of Dulwich Picture Gallery (1987)
- Rich Summer of Art: A Regency Collection seen through Victorian Eyes (1988)
- Palaces of Art: Art Galleries in Britain 1790–1990 (1991)
- The Gallery Catalogue in Nineteenth Century Britain in New Research in Museum Studies, 1994 volume (1994)
- Art for the People, editor and contributor (1994)
- Art Treasures of England, joint editor and contributor (1998)
- A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, contributor (1998)
- Below Stairs: The Servant’s Portrait, joint editor and contributor (2004)
- Opening Doors: Learning and the Historic Environment, a report for the Attingham Trust, editor and principal contributor (2004)
- Realms of Memory: changing perceptions of the country house in (ed.) Michael Forsyth, Understanding historic building conservation (2007)
- The Artist’s Studio exhibition catalogue, editor (2009)
- The People's Galleries: Art Museums and Exhibitions in Victorian Britain, to be published by Yale University Press (2015)
References
- ^ WATERFIELD, Giles Adrian, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015)
- ^ Cocks, Anna Somers (20 November 2016). "Giles Waterfield obituary". Retrieved 21 November 2016 – via The Guardian.
- ^ "The McKitterick Prize past winners". The Society of Authors. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ "Zadie Smith wins sixth literary award". BBC News. 6 June 2001. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ "The Long Afternoon page, Amazon.com". Amazon. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ "Research Forum Associate Scholars". The Courtauld Institute of Art. Archived from the original on 13 May 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
External links
- "Giles Waterfield & Lucy Worsley: 'I gave a talk about a woman who went mad in the Tower; he told me it was a lot of feminist nonsense'". Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- gileswaterfield.com
- Giles Waterfield Archive
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