Guest Curator: Janis A. Tomlinson, Ph.D.

Janis Tomlinson is director of Arts in the Academy at the National Academy of Sciences. Tomlinson came to Washington, DC, in 1995 as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to undertake research on national identity in art; she continued that research the following year under a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1997, she held the Sterling Clark Visiting Professorship at Williams College. Tomlinson had previously been associate professor of art history at Columbia University from 1991 to 1995, and assistant professor at the same institution from 1987 to 1991. From 1985 to 1987, she was general manager of the Charleston Civic Ballet; in 1983-1984, she held a fellowship with the Comité conjunto hispano-norteamericano in Madrid. She was visiting assistant professor of art history at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, S.C., from 1980 to 1983.

Tomlinson is best known for her work on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European painting and on painting in Spain. She has published several articles, exhibition reviews, and six books, including: Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Phaidon: 1994, 1999), El Greco to Goya: Painting in Spain, 1561-1828 (Abrams, 1997), and Goya in the Twilight of Enlightenment (Yale, 1992). She continues to lecture on these topics and on her more recent research topic of national identity in art.

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