About the Authors
Dr. James Hamilton, Ph.D., is the author of the biographies Turner A Life — US, 2002), and Faraday The Life — US , 2004). He was guest curator of the exhibitions Turner and the Scientists (Tate Gallery, 1998), Turner: The Late Sea Paintings (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, and touring to Manchester and Glasgow, 2003-04), Turners Britain (Birmingham, 2003-04), Turner and Italy (Edinburgh, Ferarra, and Budapest, 2008-09), and Volcano from Turner to Warhol (Compton Verney, 2010). He is university curator and honorary reader at the University of Birmingham, and a former Alistair Horne fellow at St. Antonys College, Oxford, 1998-99. His other books include the biographies Arthur Rackham 鴇0) and William Heath Robinson 鴇2), Wood Engraving and the Woodcut in Britain c. 1890-1990 鴇4), The Sculpture of Austin Wright 鴇4), Hughie ODonoghue Painting, Memory, Myth 鴈3), London Lights: The Minds that Moved the City that Shook the World 1805-51 鴈7), and Volcano Nature and Culture 鴉2). James Hamilton read history of art at the University of Manchester. He began his career as curator of art at Portsmouth City Museum 鴅2-74) and Wakefield City Art Gallery 鴅4-76), and continued as keeper of the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield 鴅6-84), and director of the Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group, Leeds 鴆4-89).
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Terry Graff is an accomplished visual artist, the recipient of major public sculpture commissions, and the first
recipient of the Christina Sabat Award for Art Criticism in Atlantic Canada, sponsored by the Sheila Hugh
MacKay Foundation. His work has been featured in numerous one-person and group exhibitions, and is
included in many public and private collections across the country. Currently serving as Curator and Deputy
Director at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, his extensive career in the visual arts includes holding the position of
Executive Director of three public art galleries in three different provinces of Canada: the Mendel Art Gallery,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario; and Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum, Charlottetown, PEI.
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Richard Calvocoressi is director of The Henry Moore Foundation. He was formerly director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh 鴆7-2007), where he organized two solo exhibitions of Lucian Freuds work and acquired an oil painting and a group of prints and drawings for the collection. He is co-author, with Sebastian Smee, of Lucian Freud on Paper (Jonathan Cape, 2008). He has also published on Francis Bacon and is a member of the Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonné Committee.
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Dr. Elliott H. King is an assistant professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University. In 2010, he was guest curator for Dalí: The Late Work at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia (catalogue published by Yale University Press). Other publications include his book, Dalí, Surrealism and Cinema (2007), and contributions to the 2004 Dalí Centenary Exhibition.
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Katharine Eustace is an art historian and curator. After training at the Victoria and Albert Museum, she worked with outstanding collections of art at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery 鴅8-85), the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford 鴇2-2001), and the National Portrait Gallery, London 鴈1-5), where she was curator for the Twentieth Century Collections. As founder-curator of the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick 鴆5-1992), she also curated the Rugby Collection (Artists of Promise and Renown: The Rugby Collection of 20th Century British Art, 1986). While at the Ashmolean, with its fine group of Camden Town paintings (see her Twentieth Century Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Handbooks series, 1999), she was responsible for the acquisition of major examples of Sickerts work from the Sands Collection. She has degrees in History from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London. She is currently editor of the Sculpture Journal, published by Liverpool University Press.
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Marty Klinkenberg is a former senior reporter with the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He is now a senior writer with the Edmonton Journal.
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Angus Stewart is an independent curator responsible for the major Graham Sutherland exhibition in 2004 that marked the centenary of the artist&146s birth. He is known for his exhibitions on twentieth-century British artists: Francis Bacon, Edward Burra, Prunella Clough, Augustus John, Gwen John, Wyndham Lewis, Henry Moore, Lucie Rie, and Keith Vaughan; his curatorial subjects include Jane Austen, John Constable, and leading eighteenth-century British cartoonists; and he has exhibited naive British art and the English Arts and Crafts movement. He has presented exhibitions on Italian majolica, on British ceramics from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Regency, on Chinese lacquer from Yangzhou, and on Chinese imperial ceramics from the ninth to the eighteenth century. He has also curated exhibitions on Tibetan religious art and on pre-Christian Middle Eastern culture. He has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, The Burlington Magazine, Apollo, Interiors, Country Life, Art Review, and numerous newspapers and periodicals. Published work includes monographs on the artists Anna Pugh, Suad Al-Attar, and Anthony Benjamin. Along with involvement with theatrical and opera productions, film, and radio reportage, he is an active Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Vice President of the UNESCO-sponsored NGO, the International Association of Art Critics.
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