Authors

PHYLLIS BARTON

Phyllis Barton was an author and art historian based in Southern California. She was the writer for numerous publications including the Santa Ana Register newspaper and Southwest Art magazine.

PETER CLOTHIER

Peter Clothier is an internationally-known writer who specialized in writing about art and artists. He has also published scores of articles and reviews in international art publications including ART news, Artforum, and Art in America. He is the author of numerous books including David Hockney in the Modern Master series of Abbeville.

JANET B. DOMINIK

Janet B. Dominik is an art historian, writer and curator of California art. She has published numerous books including American Scene Painting - California 1930 and 1940.

THOMAS GLADYSZ

Thomas Gladysz is an arts journalist, author, and self-described “pop culture archeologist.” He is the director of the Louise Brookes Society. He is a contributor to various print and online publications including Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Publisher’s Weekly.

DONELSON F. HOOPES

Art Historian Donelson Hoopes was an authority in the field of American Painting of the 19th century. He was director of the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., curator of painting and sculpture of the Brooklyn Museum and curator of painting of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He is the author of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins and the American Impressionists.

DEIRDRE KELLY

Deirdre Kelly is the editor of The York University Magazine and former writer of the Globe and Mail in Canada. She has published on national magazines including Canadian Art, Marie Claire, Toronto Life and Vogue. She is the author of Ballerina: Sex, Scandal and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (2012) and Paris Times Eight (2009)

MARIAH MARVIN

Mariah Marvin was a writer based in the Bay Area of San Francisco.

TOMMASO PALOSCIA

Tommaso Paloscia was the art critic of La Nazione in Florence where he worked for forty years. He has written extensively about Italian art and published reviews, essays and interviews about numerous modern masters including Marc Chagall, Henry Moore and Marino Marini. As an author he has published I Macchiaioli e L'Ottocento in Toscana (1985) and three volumes of art history with the title Accadde in Toscana between 1991 and 1999.

PETER SELZ

Art Historian Peter Selz was an authority in the field of German expressionist painting. He was the curator of painting and sculpture at MOMA, New York, founder of the Art Museum of Berkeley and professor of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous volumes including German Expressionist Painting, Mark Rothko, The Work of Jean Dubuffet, Emile Nolde, Max Beckmann, Alberto Giacometti, and Seven Decades of Modern Art.