Biography
Nancy Kay Anderson
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Nancy Kay Anderson is curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery of Art. She has held various curatorial and scholarly positions at the Gallery since 1984. A graduate of Mills College and The University of Washington, Seattle, Anderson received her Ph.D. in 19th- and 20th-century European and American art from The University of Delaware in 1985.
Anderson has been exhibition curator and principal author for three catalogues: George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings (2008), Frederic Remington: The Color of Night (2003), and Thomas Moran (1997). She was also co-curator and co-author for Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise (1991). Among her other publications are “The John Wilmerding Collection: A Scholar’s Gift to the National Gallery of Art” (2004) in Magazine Antiques, “Reflecting on Ruins” (2001) in Journal of the West, and “Albert Bierstadt: A Letter from New York” (2001) in Archives of American Art Journal.
Anderson held the J. Paul Getty Paired Fellowship for Research in Conservation and the History of Art and Archaeology (2005) at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). She was also a predoctoral fellow (1982–1985) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Anderson received several Wrangler Awards (2004, 1998, 1991) from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, for her exhibition catalogues. She has lectured widely on artists such as Frederic Remington, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and George Catlin.
Anderson’s current catalogue project is The Paul Mellon Collection of Paintings by George Catlin at the National Gallery of Art. She is also writing a catalogue essay for the upcoming Gallery exhibition American Modernism: The Edward and Deborah Shein Collection.
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