The American Evolution
Curator Bios
Emily D. Shapiro, Assistant Curator of American Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Emily D. Shapiro is the Corcoran’s Assistant Curator of American Art.
A scholar of pre-1945 American art and visual culture, her research to date
has focused on such prominent Gilded Age artists as Thomas Eakins, George de
Forest Brush, Eastman Johnson, and J. G. Brown. Dr. Shapiro received her Ph.D.
and M.A. from Stanford University. She also holds a B.A. from Kenyon College.
She has worked on exhibition and research projects in the curatorial departments
of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art, among
other museums.
Dr. Shapiro curated the recent Corcoran exhibition Impressionism, Realism,
Modernism: Works on Paper from the American Collection (2007); co-curated
the exhibitions Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the
Corcoran Gallery of Art (2005–2006), Figuratively Speaking:
The Human Form in American Art (2004–2005), and The Body Politic:
Portraits of American Presidents (2004); and collaborated on the 2004
exhibition Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms: Paintings That Inspired
a Nation and the 2003 The Impressionist Tradition in America.
She is currently working on a major scholarly catalogue of the Corcoran’s
permanent collection of pre-1945 American paintings and sculpture. She has
presented papers on American art topics at numerous professional conferences
and published her research in major scholarly journals and exhibition catalogues.
Sarah Newman, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Sarah Newman is the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran,
where she has worked on several exhibitions, including Modernism: Designing
a New World, 1914-1939, Wild Choir: Cinematic Portraits by Jeremy
Blake and Looking for the “There There”: California Art
from the Collection, 1950-2000. Before coming to the Corcoran, Dr. Newman
worked at the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among
other museums, and taught Contemporary Art History at the Corcoran and at George
Mason University. She has published on the relationship between painting and
film and is a co-author of the book Essential Modernism. Currently,
she is working on an exhibition of contemporary British painting as well as
a major exhibition on Postmodernism, scheduled for 2011. She holds a B.A. from
Williams College and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley.
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