Peter Trippi
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Peter Trippi is editor of Fine Art Connoisseur, a bimonthly magazine for collectors of representational painting, sculpture, drawings and prints—both historical and contemporary. From 2003 until 2006, Trippi was director of New York City's Dahesh Museum of Art, the only institution in the United States devoted to 19th- and early 20th-century European academic art.
Before arriving at the Dahesh Museum, Trippi held positions at the Brooklyn Museum
, Baltimore Museum of Art
, Association of Art Museum Directors
(where he wrote a history of that organization from 1916 to 1991), Cooper-Hewitt Museum, National Arts Education Research Center at New York University, and American Arts Alliance in Washington, D.C. He holds an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art
, London; an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University
; and a BA in History and Art History from the College of William and Mary
, Virginia. His 250-page biography of the British painter J. W. Waterhouse R.A.
(1849–1917) was published by Phaidon Press
(London) in 2002, and has sold almost 50,000 copies. He contributed two chapters to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition "A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
" (1997, organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and published by Abrams). In 2002, Trippi co-founded, with Professor Petra ten-Doesschate Chu (Seton Hall University) and Professor Gabriel P. Weisberg (University of Minnesota), the peer-reviewed journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwidehttp://www.19thc-artworldwide.org, and he has served on the boards of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, Historians of British Art, and American Friends of Attingham. In 2011 he completed a three-year term as chair of the Courtauld Institute of Art's U.S. Alumni program, and became president of Historians of British Art.
Trippi operates his own firm, Projects in 19th-Century Art, organizing exhibitions, writing articles, essays, and catalogues, and lecturing widely. He guest co-curated (with Elizabeth Prettejohn
, Robert Upstone, and Patty Wageman) a popular touring retrospective of J.W. Waterhouse that visited the Groninger Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2008–2010) and was accompanied by a catalogue honored in February 2011 by Historians of British Art as the best in its category. Recent lecturing/moderating venues have included the College Art Association, Christie’s, Royal Academy of Arts, Florence Academy of Art, Grand Central Academy, Oil Painters of America, Bard Graduate Center, Grolier Club, and International Fine Print Dealers Association.
Before arriving at the Dahesh Museum, Trippi held positions at the Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an encyclopedia art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works....
, Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, was founded in 1914. Built in the Roman Temple style, the Museum is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 90,000 works...
, Association of Art Museum Directors
Association of Art Museum Directors
The Association of Art Museum Directors is an organisation of art museums in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.Established in 1916 by the directors of twelve American museums, the Association formally incorporated in 1969. At that time the Association also hired an employee, and increased the...
(where he wrote a history of that organization from 1916 to 1991), Cooper-Hewitt Museum, National Arts Education Research Center at New York University, and American Arts Alliance in Washington, D.C. He holds an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art
Courtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. The Courtauld is one of the premier centres for the teaching of art history in the world; it was the only History of Art department in the UK to be awarded a top...
, London; an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
; and a BA in History and Art History from the College of William and Mary
College of William and Mary
The College of William & Mary in Virginia is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States...
, Virginia. His 250-page biography of the British painter J. W. Waterhouse R.A.
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
(1849–1917) was published by Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide.As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo...
(London) in 2002, and has sold almost 50,000 copies. He contributed two chapters to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition "A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
" (1997, organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and published by Abrams). In 2002, Trippi co-founded, with Professor Petra ten-Doesschate Chu (Seton Hall University) and Professor Gabriel P. Weisberg (University of Minnesota), the peer-reviewed journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwidehttp://www.19thc-artworldwide.org, and he has served on the boards of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, Historians of British Art, and American Friends of Attingham. In 2011 he completed a three-year term as chair of the Courtauld Institute of Art's U.S. Alumni program, and became president of Historians of British Art.
Trippi operates his own firm, Projects in 19th-Century Art, organizing exhibitions, writing articles, essays, and catalogues, and lecturing widely. He guest co-curated (with Elizabeth Prettejohn
Elizabeth Prettejohn
Elizabeth Prettejohn is an art historian and author of several books about art history. Her books have included "Rossetti and his Circle" , "The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites" and "Art for Art's Sake" . She has also co-edited and coauthored books...
, Robert Upstone, and Patty Wageman) a popular touring retrospective of J.W. Waterhouse that visited the Groninger Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2008–2010) and was accompanied by a catalogue honored in February 2011 by Historians of British Art as the best in its category. Recent lecturing/moderating venues have included the College Art Association, Christie’s, Royal Academy of Arts, Florence Academy of Art, Grand Central Academy, Oil Painters of America, Bard Graduate Center, Grolier Club, and International Fine Print Dealers Association.