Ira
Spanierman
Ira
Spanierman is the director of Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York, which
for over fifty years has been dedicated to dealing in the finest American
paintings, drawings, and sculpture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Some important exhibitions held recently at the gallery include Twachtman
in Gloucester: His Last Years, 1900-1902 (1987); Frank W. Benson:
The Impressionist Years (1988); In the Sunlight: The Floral
and Figurative Art of J. H. Twachtman (1989); Ten American
Painters (1990); American Painters in Giverny, 1885-1920
(1993); William Merritt Chase: Master of American Impressionism
(1994-95); Willard Leroy Metcalf: An American Impressionist
(1995-96); Painters of Cape Ann, 1840-1940: One Hundred Years in
Gloucester and Rockport (1996); Wilfrid-Gabriel de Glehn: John
Singer Sargent’s Painting Companion (1997); Theodore
Wores: Paintings from California to Japan (1998); and Arthur
Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence (1999).
Dr. William Gerdts
Dr.
William H. Gerdts is professor emeritus of art history at the Graduate
School of the City University of New York, where he taught for twenty-eight
years. He has held many previous museum and teaching posts; he has taught
at the University of Maryland and was curator of painting and sculpture
at the Newark Museum, New Jersey, for twelve years. His extensive writings
in the field of American art encompass numerous articles and books,
including American Neo-Classic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection (1973),
Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still-Life, 1801-1939
(1981), American Impressionism (1984); Grand Illusions: History Painting
in America (with Mark Thistlewaite, 1988), Art Across America (1990);
Monet's Giverny: An Impressionist Colony (1993); William Glackens (1996),
Impressionist New York (1994), and California Impressionism (with Will
South 1998). Gerdts received his B.A. from Amherst College, Massachusetts,
and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr.
Bruce Chambers
Bruce W. Chambers
is a nationally recognized historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century
American art. As the director of the Willard L. Metcalf Catalogue Raisonne
for over a decade, he has been compiling a comprehensive record of Metcalf’s
oils, watercolors, pastels, and drawings. He has also completed a catalogue
raisonne of the work of the mid-nineteenth-century Pittsburgh political
and social satirist, David Gilmour Blythe, and has published and lectured
on a wide range of other artists and subjects, including Frank W. Benson,
Thomas Cole, Robert Henri, Charles Burchfield, Southern art, and American
trompe l’oeil money painting.
Chambers
received his B.A. from Yale University, his M.A. from the University
of Rochester, in art history, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
He has taught at Emory University, the University of Rochester, and
the Fashion Institute of Technology, where he also served as dean of
Graduate Studies. He has been the chief curator of the Memorial Art
Gallery in Rochester, New York, and the director of the University of
Iowa Museum of Art. He currently works out of his home in Hamden, Connecticut,
as a researcher and writer, and as a consultant to private collectors,
museums, auction houses, galleries, and universities.