Richard Brettell The Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair, Art and Aesthetics Office: JO 5.404 Phone:  972-883-2475 Email:  brettell@utdallas.edu

Areas of Interest:
19th- and 20th-century visual representation: mechanical, assisted, and handmade; the history of art museums and of private collecting in capitalist societies; visual "translation" of texts; artists as writers; 19th- and 20th-century architecture.

Education: 
Yale University B.A. (1971), M.A. (1973), Ph.D. (1977)

Recent Publications:

French 19th Century Painting in the Norton Simon Museum (Yale Press), 2006

Monet in Normandy (Yale Press) 2006

Gauguin and Impressionism (Yale Press) 2005

European Drawings (1800-present) in the Lehman Collection (Metropolitan Museum) 2002

Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890, 2000

Modern Art: 1851-1929; Capitalism and Representation, 1999

Monet to Moore: The Millenium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, 1999

Camille Pissarro in the Carribean, 1850-1855: Drawings in the Collection at Olana, 1996

Courses available at The Teaching Company

The Age of Impressionism

The Louvre Museum: European Painting

Art in the Empire City: The Metropolitan Museum

Director of:
CISM (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Museums)
FRAME (French Regional & American Museum Exchange)