Biography
Kimberly A. Jones
Associate Curator, Department of French Paintings
Kimberly A. Jones received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 1996. A former museum fellow at the Musée national du château de Pau and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, she joined the curatorial staff of the National Gallery of Art in 1995.
Jones was a collaborator and catalogue co-author for the exhibition Jean-Paul Laurens 1838-1921 peintre d'histoire held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse in 1997-1998. She was the co-curator and catalogue co-author for the exhibition Degas at the Races held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 1998 and the exhibition Edouard Vuillard which was organized by the National Gallery of Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'Orsay/Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2003-2004. Most recently, she was the co-curator and catalogue co-author for the exhibition In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet which was organized by the National Gallery of Art in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Jones has lectured and published articles on a number of topics related to French art of the 19th century and is currently overseeing the publication of the systematic catalogue of the later 19th-century French painting collection of the National Gallery.
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