Degas at the Races: Credits

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Program texts have been derived from commentary by Kimberly Jones (Part I) and Shelley Sturman (Part II).

Kimberly Jones is assistant curator of French paintings at the National Gallery of Art. She has been a fellow at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Musée national du Château de Pau, and is currently at work on the Systematic Catalogue of French Paintings at the National Gallery, a compendium of scholarly research and information. She has a B.A. from Western Maryland College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and has received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

Shelley Sturman is head of object conservation at the National Gallery of Art. She has worked in the conservation departments at the Walters Art Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, after receiving her B.A. and M.A. from Brandeis University and her M.S. from the Winterthur Museum University of Delaware Program in art conservation. She has published extensively, contributing to the Gallery's Systematic Catalogue of Western Decorative Arts and Studies in Conservation, as well as to such journals as Apollo. She has been investigating Degas' sculpture for the past ten years.

This program was produced by Ruth R. Perlin, head, department of education resources, and Barbara S. Moore, head, education publications, education division, National Gallery of Art.

Discussion questions and activities were created by the staff of the departments of teacher and school programs, education publications, and education resources.

This teaching program was designed for the Web site by Brett Stilwell, department of education publications, National Gallery of Art.