GILBERT STUART

EXHIBITION CURATORS

Carrie Rebora Barratt is curator of American paintings and sculpture, and manager of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has curated exhibitions on John Singleton Copley, Thomas Sully, and others, as well as thematic shows on American folk art, portraits of artists, period frames, and American drawings. Future projects include an exhibition on narrative painting; a study of the intersection of English and American painting of the eighteenth century; and a collection catalogue of the Metropolitan’s American portrait miniatures. As manager of The Luce Center, the American Wing’s visible storage facility, she oversees the display and electronic cataloguing of over 10,000 works of American fine and decorative art on view in that facility. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, she received her M.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Ellen Miles is chair of the department of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and was selected in 2004 as the Smithsonian Secretary’s Distinguished Research Lecturer. She received a 2002/2003 Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship for research for the exhibition catalogue Gilbert Stuart. Other recent publications include “Gilbert Stuart’s Portraits of George Washington,” in George Washington: A National Treasure, published in 2002 by the National Portrait Gallery to accompany the exhibition of Stuart’s Lansdowne portrait of Washington, and the catalogue for the exhibition George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years, held at the National Portrait Gallery in 1999. She also is author of American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century (Washington, D.C., 1995), part of the National Gallery of Art's series of systematic catalogues of its permanent collection. Earlier publications include Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Press, 1994), a study and catalogue of the work of late eighteenth century profilist C.B.J. Févret de Saint-Mémin, and American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987), with Richard H. Saunders. She was co-curator of the exhibition of that title at the National Portrait Gallery in 1987 and is editor of a collection of related conference papers, The Portrait in Eighteenth-Century America (University of Delaware Press, 1993). A 1964 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1976.

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