REBECCA J. LONG
EMPLOYMENT 2015–present Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1750, The Art Institute of Chicago
2013–2015 Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1800, Indianapolis Museum of Art
2011–2013 Assistant Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1945, Indianapolis Museum of Art
2009–2011 Curatorial Assistant for European Painting and Sculpture before 1945, Indianapolis Museum of Art
EDUCATION In progress Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Ph.D., Art History and Archaeology (ABD), expected completion in 2018 Dissertation: “Bartolomé Carducho and Italian Art at the Spanish Court,” Advisor: Jonathan Brown
2004 Institute of Fine Arts, New York University M.A., Art History and Archaeology Major qualifying paper: “Andrea Sacchi and the Decoration of the Lateran Baptistery, 1630-1650,” Advisor: Donald Posner Minor qualifying paper: “The Development of Magdalene Iconography in 11th- and 12th-century French Manuscripts,” Advisor: Jonathan J.G. Alexander
2002 University of Pittsburgh B.A., History of Art and Architecture/Business Administration Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa Senior thesis: “Iconography of the Virgin and Child at Chartres Cathedral,” Advisor: M. Alison Stones Honors College Thesis: “Caravaggio’s ‘Madonna of Loreto’ and Counter- Reformation Piety,” Advisor: Ann Sutherland Harris
TEACHING 2013–2015 Adjunct Associate Professor, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville
2009–2015 Adjunct Professor, Herron School of Art, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
2006–2007 Adjunct Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York
2006 Adjunct Professor, Kingsborough College, City University of New York
2004–2005 Adjunct Instructor, Hunter College, City University of New York
EXHIBITIONS Caravaggio and his Circle: Masterpieces from the Museo di Capodimonte (working title); The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020
El Greco: The Creation of Genius (working title); Réunion des musées nationaux—Grand Palais/Musée du Louvre/The Art Institute of Chicago, 2019–2020
Saints and Heroes: The Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor (with Martha Wolff and Jonathan Tavares), 2017
Doctrine and Devotion: Art of the Religious Orders in the Spanish Andes; Art Institute of Chicago, 2016–2017
Matisse, Life in Color: Masterworks from the Baltimore Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2013
Indianapolis Museum of Art permanent collection exhibitions: Multiple States: Vision and Revision in Prints of the Pont-Aven School (2013); The Women of Pont-Aven (2012); Printmakers in the Cafés of Paris (2012); Nature and Abstraction (2011); Painted Sketches from the Eighteenth Century (2011)
Exhibition coordination and research assistance: Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904, Indianapolis Museum of Art/ING Cultural Center Brussels (2014); Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, Van Gogh Museum/The Phillips Collection/Indianapolis Museum of Art (2012); Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World, Indianapolis Museum of Art (2009)
PUBLICATIONS “El Greco in Chicago.” El Greco Comes to America: The Discovery of a Modern Old Master. Ed. Inge Reist and José Luis Colomer. Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Collection, 2017.
“The Art Institute of Chicago.” Spanish Art in America. Ed. Mark Roglán. Ediciones El Viso, 2016.
“Vicente Carducho’s Artistic Formation: Florentine Training at the Spanish Court.” On Art and Painting: Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain. Ed. Jean Andrews, Jeremy Roe, Oliver Noble Wood. University of Wales, 2016.
Catalogue entries (numbers 6, 7, 21, 35, 38, 49, 50, 56, 57, 62, 63, 64), Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World. Ed. Ronda Kasl. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2009.
CONFERENCES , COLLOQUIA, AND LECTURES Renaissance Society of America (2018): Co-organizer and Chair, with Guillaume Kientz, “El Greco: State of the Field, Sessions I-III”
Renaissance Society of America (2018): “El Greco at Santo Domingo el Antiguo” Loyola University Art Museum (2017): “Discovering the Art of Colonial Latin America: Criticism and Collecting”
Renaissance Society of America (2017): “The Italian Renaissance at the Art Institute of Chicago”
Art Institute of Chicago, annual member and public lectures (2015–2017): “The Neapolitan Crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago: A Closer Look”
Renaissance Society of America (2015): Co-organizer and chair, with Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, “Italian Art at the Spanish Court, Sessions I-IV”
Renaissance Society of America (2015): “Bartolomé Carducho and Italian Art at the Spanish Court”
Sixteenth-Century Society (2013): “The Impact of the ‘Florentine Reform’ in Spain: Rethinking the Origins of Spanish Baroque Art”
Sixteenth-Century Society (2013): Chair, “Transatlantic Currents: Art and Society in the Spanish World”
Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville (2013): “Matisse, Life in Color”
Purdue University (2013): “Matisse, Life in Color”
Indianapolis Museum of Art Member Lecture (2012): “The IMA and the Clowes Collection: A Shared History”
College Art Association Annual Conference (2012): “Florentine Paintings for a Spanish Queen: The Medici Gift in the Descalzas Reales, Valladolid”
Renaissance Society of America (2011): “Vicente Carducho and Italian Art Theory”
Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellows’ Colloquium (2008): “Bartolomé Carducho and Italian Art at the Spanish Court”
Questioning Renaissance Pieties (Princeton University, 2007): “Canonization and Construction: Roman Churches Dedicated to St. Carlo Borromeo”
On Collecting: Formation, Transmission, Reception (40th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium, 2005): “Art as Commodity: Collecting European Paintings in New Spain”
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH POSITIONS 2014 Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti), Florence
2012 Dissertation Fellow, Global Research Institute, Villa La Pietra/New York University, Florence
2008–2009 Allen Whitehill Clowes Fellow, Indianapolis Museum of Art
2008–2009 Bibliographic Researcher, Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press
2007–2008 Theodore Rousseau Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art
2003–2007 Institute of Fine Arts Graduate Fellowship
2005–2007 Research Assistant, Classics Department, Bobst Library, NYU
2002–2007 Research Assistant, Stephen Chan Library, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
2005 Course Assistant, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association of Art Museum Curators, College Art Association, Italian Art Society, American Society of Hispanic Art Historical Studies, Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth Century Society