Theodore Stebbins

Theodore Stebbins
Born	Theodore Ellis Stebbins, Jr. (1938-08-11) August 11, 1938 (age 85) Art historian Curator
Academic background
Education	Yale University Harvard University
Academic work
Influenced	Susan Casteras

Theodore Ellis Stebbins, Jr. (born August 11, 1938) is an American

.

Career

From 1977 to 1999, Stebbins was the John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. During his tenure, he organized nineteen exhibitions ranging from John Singleton Copley in the 18th century to The Lane Collection and its important holdings of modern art. As curator, he guided the museum's acquisition of over three hundred paintings, from 17th century limners to Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. From 1968 to 1977, he was Curator of American Paintings at Yale University, as well as an associate professor of art history for the university. At Yale, he built the collection of 19th century American landscape and still lifes; his major purchase was Frederic Edwin Church's Mt. Ktaadn (1853).^[1][2]

Complementing his career as a curator and

when it acquired the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection of American Art. During the 1980s, he served two terms on the Art Advisory Panel of the Internal Revenue Department.

In 2014 he published American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Artists Born Before 1826, completing a two volume scholarly analysis of Harvard's extensive holdings of American Art. Stebbins retired as Curator at Harvard in the same year, but continues to teach at the university. In 2014, he established Theodore E. Stebbins Advisors, which serves as a consultant on issues of American art to museums, foundations, and a small number of private collectors. His most recent publications "Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter."

Education

Stebbins attended

His article entitled The Problem of Tort Liability for the Art Expert has been reproduced in numerous casebooks and for many years remained a standard reference.

Works

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2012)

• Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade, 1975,
  ISBN 978-0300018080
• American Master Drawings & Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, 1976,
  ISBN 978-0060140694
• Oil Sketches by Frederic Edwin Church, 1978,
  ISBN 978-0874748888
• Boston Collects: Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, 1986,
  ISBN 978-0878462766
• The Lane Collection: 20th Century Paintings in the American Tradition, 1983,
  ISBN 978-0878462339
• Charles Sheeler: The Photographs, with Norman Keyes Jr., 1987,
  ISBN 978-0878462858
• The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, 1992,
  ISBN 978-0810935617
• Still Life Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with Karyn Esielonis, Eric Zafran, and Malcom Rogers, 1994,
  ISBN 978-0878464210
• Weston's Westons: Portraits and Nudes, 1994,
  ISBN 978-0821221426
• Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism, with Leslie Furth and Karen Quinn, 1999,
  ISBN 978-0821225882
• The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne, 2000,
  ISBN 978-0300081831
• The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton,
  ISBN 978-1891771446
• Life as Art: The Work of Gregory Gillespie and Frances Cohen Gillespie," 2008,
  ISBN 978-1891771293
• American Paintings at Harvard: Volume Two: Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, with Virginia Anderson and Kimberly Orcutt, 2008,
  ISBN 978-0300122398
• "American Paintings at Harvard: Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born Before 1826," with Melissa Renn, 2014,
  ISBN 978-0300153521
• "Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter," 2016,
  ISBN 978-1-4951-8700-1

References

1. ^ Forum Network Archived 2012-07-11 at archive.today: Lecture: "Taste for American Art: Heroes, Villains and the Art Market Today." November 19, 2009. Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ "Yale University Art Gallery - eCatalogue - Mt. Ktaadn". Archived from the original on 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
3. ^ International Foundation for Art Research, about IFAR
4. ^ "Antiques and the Arts Online - Theodore e. Stebbins: THE Expert on Heade". Archived from the original on 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
5. ^ "The Heinz Awards :: Board of Directors".
6. ^ "American Art Campaign Completed at Harvard Art Museum," ArtDaily. May 6, 2010.

External links

• Boston University profile