National Gallery of Art

Richard Thomson, PhD, FRSE.
Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland.

Education:
St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (Exhibitioner, 1971-4), M.A. in Modern History.
Department of History of Art, University of Oxford (1974-5), Diploma in the History of Art (Distinction).
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1975-6), M.A.
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, PhD (1989).

Employment:
University of Manchester:
Lecturer in the History of Art, 1977-89; Senior Lecturer, 1989-95; Reader, 1995-6.
University of Edinburgh:
Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art, 1996-present.
Head of Department of Fine Art, 1996-9.
Director, Visual Arts Research Institute, Edinburgh, 1999-2004.

Books:
Toulouse-Lautrec, (Oresko) 1977;
Seurat, (Phaidon) 1985;
Degas: The Nudes, (Thames & Hudson) 1988;
Degas: `Waiting`, (Getty Museum) 1995;
The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889-1900 (Yale University Press) 2004.

Edited/Co-edited Books:
Framing France: the representation of landscape in France, 1870-1914, (Manchester University Press)1998.
Soil & Stone: Impressionism, Urbanism, Environment, (Ashgate) 2003 (with Frances Fowle).

Exhibitions curated or co-curated:
Harold Gilman, 1876-1919, Stoke-on-Trent, York, Birmingham, and London (Royal Academy), 1981-2;
Impressionist Drawings, Manchester & Oxford, 1986;
The Private Degas, Manchester & Cambridge, 1987;
Camille Pissarro: impressionism, landscape and rural labour, Birmingham & Glasgow, 1990;
Toulouse-Lautrec, London (Hayward Gallery & Paris, Grand Palais) 1991-2;
Monet to Matisse: landscape painting in France, 1874-1914, Edinburgh (National Gallery of Scotland) 1994:
Seurat and the Bathers, London (National Gallery)1997;
Theo van Gogh, Amsterdam (Van Gogh Museum) & Paris (Musée d’Orsay)1999; Monet, 1878-1883: The Seine and the Sea, Edinburgh (National Gallery of Scotland) 2003.

Forthcoming:
Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, Washington, National Gallery of Art/Art Institute of Chicago, 2005.
Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec, Tate Britain/Phillips Collection, Washington, 2005-6.

General Information

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden are at all times free to the public. They are located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, and are open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Gallery is closed on December 25 and January 1. For information call (202) 737-4215 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (202) 842-6176, or visit the Gallery's Web site at www.nga.gov.

Visitors will be asked to present all carried items for inspection upon entering the East and West Buildings. Checkrooms are free of charge and located at each entrance. Luggage and other oversized bags must be presented at the 4th Street entrances to the East or West Building to permit x-ray screening and must be deposited in the checkrooms at those entrances. For the safety of visitors and the works of art, nothing may be carried into the Gallery on a visitor's back. Any bag or other items that cannot be carried reasonably and safely in some other manner must be left in the checkrooms. Items larger than 17 x 26 inches cannot be accepted by the Gallery or its checkrooms.

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