Theodore Stebbins
American art historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Theodore Ellis Stebbins, Jr. is an American art historian and curator. Stebbins is currently the Consultative Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums. 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 .
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- The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade (1977) (10)
- A new world: Masterpieces of American painting, 1760-1910 (1983) (6)
- The Bostonians: Painters of an elegant age, 1870-1930 (1986) (5)
- Charles Sheeler: The Photographs (1987) (4)
- The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist (2002) (4)
- American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present (1976) (4)
- The Museum's Collection (1991) (3)
- Weston's Westons: Portraits and Nudes (1989) (3)
- The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne (2000) (3)
- The watercolors for The birds of America (2)
- Richardson and Trinity Church: The Evolution of a Building (1968) (2)
- A Book by Anselm Kiefer (1988) (1)
- Weston's Westons: California and the West (1989) (1)
- A Book by Anselm Kiefer : Erotik im Fernen Osten oder/Transition from Cool to Warm (1988) (0)
- Still Life Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1994) (0)
- Martin Johnson Heade : [exhibition, organized by the Art Dept., University of Maryland (1969) (0)
- Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist (1994) (0)
- Close observation : selected oil sketches by Frederick E. Church from the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design (1978) (0)
- Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism (1999) (0)
- Henry Luce III, Philanthropist (1925–2005) (2006) (0)
- American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue (1999) (0)
- The Lane Collection : 20th-century paintings in the American tradition (1983) (0)
- Masterpiece Paintings: From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2000) (0)
- Art History in a New World@@@A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting, 1760-1910 (1984) (0)
- Boston collects: Contemporary painting & sculpture (1986) (0)
- Campagna Romana: The Countryside of Ancient Rome (1992) (0)
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