Biography:

Charles Brock

Charles Brock,
Assistant Curator of American and British Paintings
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Charles Brock, assistant curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, is curator of Charles Sheeler: Across Media, the first exhibition to explore the complex relationships between photography, film, painting, and drawing that were so central to Sheeler’s art.

Brock first came to the Gallery in 1990 to assist the department of American paintings with organization and research for the major retrospective exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler (1994) and Winslow Homer (1995). From 1996 to 2002, Brock served as research associate in the department of photographs, where he worked with department head Sarah Greenough in developing and organizing the landmark exhibition Modern Art in America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (2001). In 2002 Brock returned to the department of American and British paintings as assistant curator and has continued to collaborate on various exhibitions, most recently From Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection (2004) and Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art (2005). Among the many other Gallery projects to which Brock has contributed are: George Caleb Bingham (1990), John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo (1992), John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark (1993), John James Audubon (1993), John Singleton Copley in England (1995), William Michael Harnett (1993), Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures (1996), and The Victorians: British Painting, 1837-1901 (1997). In addition to the catalogue for Modern Art in America, Brock has been a contributor to other publications on American modernism, including The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A Collection in the Making (The Phillips Collection, 1999), Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection (National Gallery of Art, 2000), A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt (National Gallery of Art, 2001), and Eye Contact: Modern American Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery (National Portrait Gallery, 2002). Brock has lectured on various topics at the Smithsonian Institution, New York University, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

Brock received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1981 and his M.A. in art history from the University of Maryland in 1993.

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