Julie Aronson is curator of American Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Cincinnati Art Museum. Barbara Gallati is curator emerita of American Art, Brooklyn Museum. Sarah Burns is Ruth N. Halls Professor, Department of Art History, Indiana University. André Dombrowski is associate professor, History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth A. Simmons is curatorial research assistant, Cincinnati Art Museum. Kristin L. Spangenberg is curator of Prints, Cincinnati Art Museum. Colm Tóibín is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet, and currenlty Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. He is the author of, most recently, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, (2018) and Brooklyn (2009), and co-author of Henry James and American Painting, (2017).
Sarah Burns (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is Professor Emeritus of Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Philadelphia, 1989); Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (New Haven, 1996); Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2004), and (with John Davis) American Art to 1900: A Documentary History (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2009).
Kristin L. Spangenberg is curator of Prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum. She has more than 40 years of experience in her field, having previously served as Assistant Curator of Prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum and Assistant Curator of Graphic Arts at the Detroit Institute of Art. She is a member of the Print Council of America and the Circus Historical Society.
