Renée Ater, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. University of Maryland
American Art

Anthony Colantuono, Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University
Seventeenth-Century Italian, French, and Spanish Art

Meredith J. Gill, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. Princeton University
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italian Renaissance Art

June Hargrove, Professor
Ph.D. New York University
Nineteenth-Century European Painting and Sculpture

Shannen Hill, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
African Art

Jason Kuo, Professor
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Chinese Art

Steven A. Mansbach, Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University
Twentieth-Century Art

William L. Pressly, Professor
Ph.D. New York University
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art

Joshua A. Shannon, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Contemporary Art History & Theory

Yui Suzuki, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles
Japanese Art

Marjorie S. Venit, Professor and Chair and Scheduling Officer
Ph.D. New York University
Ancient Mediterranean Art History & Archaeology

Alicia Volk, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Yale University
Japanese Art

Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University
Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art

Distinguished Affiliates

Franklin Kelly
Ph.D. University of Delaware
American Art

Richard Spear
Ph.D. Princeton University
Italian Baroque Art

Emeriti and Adjunct Faculty

Arthur K. Wheelock. Jr.
Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art

Email: a-wheelock@nga.gov

Telephone: (301) 405-8363

Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., an expert on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, is curator of Northern Baroque painting at the National Gallery of Art. He has received a number of grants and other distinctions throughout his career, including the Johannes Vermeer Prize for outstanding achievement in Dutch art. He has been named Knight Officer in the Order of Orange - Nassau by the Dutch government and Commander in the Order of Leopold I by the Belgium government. He is author of Perspective, Optics and Delft Artists around 1650, Jan Vermeer, Vermeer and the Art of Painting, Dutch Painting of the Seventeenth Century, and Flemish Painting of the Seventeenth Century. He has written numerous articles and reviews in art journals, including the Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine , Oud Holland, Simiolus, Connaissance des Arts, and Artibus et Historiae. A noted authority on Vermeer and Rembrandt, he has lectured widely on those two masters. Among the exhibitions Professor Wheelock has organized are Gods, Saints and Heroes, Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller ; A Collector's Cabinet, From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art, Aelbert Cuyp, Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits, Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age, and Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered.