ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Richard J. Boyle    Curriculum Vitae

Professor Boyle is the former director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a professor Emeritus of American art history at Temple University. In addition to being the author of the first major book on American Impressionism, he has written books on Willard Metcalf and John Twachtman. He is also the author of numerous monographs and exhibition catalogues, including those on Will Barnet, Arthur Dow, Max Kuehne, and Charles W. Hawthorne; plus, the contemporary artists Bob Kane and Bill Scott. His most recent book is Double Lives: American Painters as Illustrators, 1850–1950, which  accompanied a traveling exhibition.

Peter Hastings Falk    Curriculum Vitae

The author of many reference books on American artists, Mr. Falk is best known for his three-volume biographical dictionary, Who Was Who in American Art, as well as for pioneering in the publishing of art auction indices. His research tools include his extensive Exhibition Record Series, and he has written more than thirty scholarly monographs on American artists.

William Innes Homer    Curriculum Vitae

He is professor and chair emeritus of the University of Delaware’s Department of Art History, one of the country’s most prestigious American Art programs. An internationally recognized expert in both European and American painting from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, Dr. Homer is the author of many critically acclaimed scholarly books and articles, including major books on Georges Seurat, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Henri, and Thomas Eakins.

Lawrence E. Joseph   Curriculum Vitae

Mr. Joseph is the author of many books, including Gaia: The Growth of an Idea (1991); Common Sense: Why It’s No Longer Common (1994); and most recently the best-selling, Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization’s End (2007).

Peter Najarian   Curriculum Vitae

Arthur Pinajian’s cousin, Mr. Najarian is a painter as well as the author of three novels: Voyages; Wash Me on Home Again, Mama; and, Daughters of Memory.

John Perreault    Curriculum Vitae

A widely published art critic, Mr. Perrault has written articles for ArtNews, Art in America, Artforum and other publications. He is a past president of the American Section of the International Association  of Art Critics and the founder of Artopia, at artsjournal.com.