Stuart Feld graduated from Princeton University in 1957 with an A.B. in the Department of Art & Archaeology. He completed his graduate studies at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in 1961, and in the same year, became one of the first Fellows at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. From 1962 to 1967 he worked in the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum, during which time he co-authored American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1967, Stuart left his post as Associate Curator in Charge of the Department and joined Hirschl & Adler Galleries as a partner, becoming its sole proprietor in 1982.

Stuart has authored many articles and catalogues in the field of American Art—both fine and decorative arts—and is a frequent lecturer around the country. He has served for many years on the Advisory Council of the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey; on the Visiting Committee of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; on the Advisory Council of the Florence Griswold Museum at Old Lyme, Connecticut; and on the Board of the Landmarks Conservancy in New York City. He was elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 2001.

Stuart is currently working with Kathleen Burnside on the definitive catalogue raisonné of the work of the American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam. His recent Hirschl & Adler exhibitions and catalogues have included Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation, 1810–1840 (1991); Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1810–1840 (1998–99); Of the Newest Fashion: Masterpieces of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts (2001–02); In Pointed Style: The Gothic Revival in America, 1800–1860 (2006), and For Work & For Play: A Selection of American Neo-Classical Furniture (2007).


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Eric Baumgartner graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, and with Honors in the History of Art. His senior honors thesis examined the luminist paintings of John Frederick Kensett, and today, Eric’s specialty continues to be 19th-century American art, particularly the landscape paintings of the Hudson River School and Neo-Classical sculpture.

Eric joined Hirschl & Adler in 1993, was appointed Director of its Department of American Art in 1994, and promoted to Senior Vice President in 2006. He lectures on topics of American art, and has curated many special gallery exhibitions, including Our Own Bright Land: American Topographical Pictures, 1770–1930 (1994–95); A Marvelous Repose: American Neo-Classical Sculpture, 1825–1876 (1996–97); The American Vasari: William Dunlap and His World (1998–98); and Likenesses & Landskips: A Porrtrait of the Eighteenth Century (2002–03); and Just Plain Folk (2006); and American Masterworks of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute: Celebrating an Educational Alliance with Pratt Institute (2006).


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Shelley Farmer graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in American Studies and Art History from Vassar College. She completed post-graduate study at Sotheby’s Institute, New York, and subsequently earned her certificate in Appraisal Studies from New York University.

Since joining the gallery in 1997, Shelley has worked in the Print Department and is now Director of Hirschl & Adler Modern, the gallery’s contemporary arm. In addition to curating and co-curating many gallery exhibitions, Shelley’s primary focus has been to build a stable of contemporary representational painters working at the very highest level to complement the gallery’s 18th, 19th, and early 20th-century holdings. Under her direction, Hirschl & Adler Modern annually presents about ten solo and group exhibitions of work by both established and emerging artists.

In addition to contemporary realist art, Shelley’s personal areas of interest include American and European Modernism and Post-War Art.


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Elizabeth Feld graduated from The University of Pennsylvania with departmental honors in Art History. After two years in public relations and strategic marketing, she moved from New York to London to pursue a Master’s Degree in Fine and Decorative Arts with Sotheby’s Institute. While abroad, Elizabeth focused her studies on English Regency and French Neo-Classical furniture and decorative arts to complement her comprehensive knowledge of American decorative arts.

In 1999, Elizabeth joined Hirschl & Adler to head its Department of American Decorative Arts. She has since curated a number of exhibitions in this area and others, including Of the Newest Fashion: Masterpieces of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts (2001–02), which was the gallery’s 50th-anniversary exhibition. In 2006, she co-curated Elizabeth Turk: The Collars and In Pointed Style: The Gothic Revival in America, 1800–1860, both accompanied by extensive catalogues, and in 2007, For Work & For Play: A Selection of American Neo-Classical Furniture.

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Joseph Goddu studied at the Tyler School of Art, The New School for Social Research, and New York University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the last with a B.A. from the Departments of Art History and Psychology.

He has curated over 50 gallery and museum exhibitions on a wide range of topics within the field of American prints, and lectures frequently to university, museum and private groups. Joe has served on the boards of the American Historical Print Collector's Society and The International Fine Print Dealer's Association, and currently serves on the board of the International Print Center New York.

In 2003 the American Historical Print Collectors Society awarded Joe with its national book award, the Ewell L. Newman Prize, for his exhibition catalogue, John James Audubon & Robert Havell Jr.: Artist's Proofs for The Birds of America. Joe’s expertise in American works on paper led to his participation in the PBS documentary, John James Audubon: Drawn to Nature, a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York, American Masters and Florentine Films, which will air nationally on public television stations in early 2007.


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Gregory Hedberg received his B.A. in Art History from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from New York University. For 20 years he had a distinguished museum career as Lecturer and Fellow at The Frick Collection, New York; Curator of Paintings at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; and Chief Curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. In 1987, he left the museum world to help found a new art school in New York City, The New York Academy of Art, and was appointed its first Director.

In 1992, Greg joined Hirschl & Adler Galleries as its Director of the Department of European Art. He has since curated several gallery exhibitions including Yanks Paint Brits (1996); New York Classicism Now (2000); and The Grand Scale: New Watercolors by Alexander Creswell (2006). Greg also regularly lectures around the country on European art and contemporary realist painting, and is currently preparing a book on Degas’ Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.


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M.P. Naud received her B.A. in English from Newton College, Massachusetts. Prior to joining Hirschl & Adler she served on the Board of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. M.P. joined the firm in 1976, and was named Director of the Department of American Art in 1980. Subsequently, in 1993, she was appointed Senior Vice President. Today she is principally involved in sales and acquisitions for all five of the gallery's departments. During her tenure with the gallery M.P. has curated many exhibitions of note, among them The Artist in the Park (1980), a benefit exhibition for New York City's Central Park, Variations on a Theme: Still-Life Painting in America (1988-1989), The View Inside: Interiors in American and European Art (1995); and The Artist's World: From Ingres to Diebenkorn (1997-1998).

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Arlene Katz Nichols joined Hirschl & Adler Galleries as a researcher in 1995. A Barnard College alumna, she holds an M.A. in Museum Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York with a specialty in Decorative Arts, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Arlene’s specialty is nineteenth-century American art, following up on her master’s essay on Clarence Cook at the Fashion Institute of Technology and her dissertation on the American Art Union at CUNY. She has written essays for two Hirschl and Adler exhibition catalogues: The American Vasari: William Dunlap and His World (1998–99), and Likenesses & Landskips: A Portrait of the Eighteenth Century (2002–03).

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Tom Parker received a B.A. in Art History and English from Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, and an M.Phil. in Art History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. After extensive experience at New York galleries and museums, he came to Hirschl & Adler as a researcher in 1999. Tom joined the gallery’s sales staff in 2002. Since then he has curated a number of special exhibitions at the gallery including The Drawing Impulse in American Art: 1900–1950; Nineteenth-Century Watercolors by Annie S. Johnson of New Haven; and Beginner’s Luck: Affordable Treasures at Hirschl & Adler. Tom also wrote the catalogue essay to the exhibition Frank von der Lancken: Artist and Educator (2001). Tom specializes in 19th and early 20th-century American painting, and also plays an active role in Hirschl & Adler Modern’s contemporary program.

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Zachary Ross has been a researcher at Hirschl & Adler since 1998. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of California at Davis in 1993, and he is presently enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a concentration in American art.

Zachary has authored three exhibition catalogues at Hirschl & Adler: Spirit of the Past: The Paintings of Edmund Quincy (2000); Ruth Light Braun: New York and Palestine, 1926–1933 (2002); and Charles De Wolf Brownell: A Decade of Travel, 1856–66 (2004–05).


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Debra Wieder received her B.A. in Italian Literature and the History of Art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Debra joined Hirschl & Adler in 1993, and has curated and co-curated many gallery exhibitions, including Call of the Wild: A Sportsman’s Life (1994); A Marvelous Repose: American Neo-Classical Sculpture, 1825–1976 (1996-97); Eccentric Orbits (1998); Impossible Landscapes of the Mind (1999); Likenesses & Landskips: A Portrait of the Eighteenth Century (2002); Jennifer Johnson: Photographs (2005); and Just Plain Folk (2006).

Debra’s areas of expertise include 19th-century American landscape, still-life and genre painting, paintings of the American Renaissance and the Belle Epoque, American Neo-Classical sculpture, and American decorative arts.


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