Biography
Sarah Kennel
Sarah Kennel is associate curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of California, Berkeley completing her dissertation on the relationship between dance and the visual arts in early 20th-century Paris. Kennel was at the National Gallery of Art from 1999 to 2001 as a Mary Davis Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She has taught classes in the history of art at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Princeton University. Kennel was a contributor for The Art of Romare Bearden (2003) and then joined the department of photographs where she has worked on or contributed to numerous shows, including André Kertész (2005), Irving Penn: The Platinum Prints (2005), and The Art of the American Snapshot (2007). She was the curator for Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art (2006) and for the photography section of In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet (2008).
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