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.
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