JAMES CHRISTEN STEWARD

115 Winant Road Princeton, New Jersey 08540 609.375.6941

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009- Director, Princeton University Art Museum Lecturer with the Rank of Professor, Princeton University

Oversees operating budget of $15 million, staff of 75, and global collections of 82,000 works of art. Leads and provides vision for program of exhibitions, collections installations, and scholarly and public programs. Develops acquisitions strategies and oversees annual purchase program of ca. $4.5 million along with gift cultivation and acceptances. Advocates for the Museum to local, regional, statewide, and national constituencies including funders, collaborators, and audiences. Led a successful endowment campaign of $45.9 million that concluded in June 2012 and a potential $200 million facility project and campaign. Liaises with university leaders to develop arts policy and interdisciplinary collaborative projects. Teaches courses in 18th- and 19th-century art, ethics, and arts policy.

1998-2009 Director, Museum of Art

2003-2009 Professor, History of Art and Museum Studies 2001-2003 Associate Professor, History of Art and Art 1998-2001 Assistant Professor, History of Art and Art

Provided direction for staff of 50, an operating budget of $5.5 million, collections of over 18,000 objects, and 200+ volunteers. Led major development initiatives including a building and endowment campaign totaling $98 million. Initiated and led National Advisory Board. Developed interdisciplinary program in museum studies. Conducted research and organizes exhibitions. Taught courses in 18th- century art and museum studies.

1997-1998 Chief Curator, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum 1992-1997 Curator and Assistant Director

Member of Senior Management Team; managed budgets totaling $1.7 million, including $600,000 annual gallery exhibition program; administered all aspects of collection development and management; cultivated individual and corporate donors and collectors; managed project-specific grant writing. Developed major touring exhibition and publications projects. As Chief Curator, supervised curatorial, registration, education, and design departments, and museum internship program. Developed and taught museum studies and period art history courses.

1987-1988 Curatorial Assistant, The Queens Museum. Developed all aspects of a major travelling exhibition of French and American 18th- and 19th-century political art.

1981-1983 Instructor, University of Virginia. Developed and taught introductory and intermediate French language and literature courses. EDUCATION

1988-1992 D.Phil., History of Art, Trinity College, Oxford University. Thesis: "British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830." Supervisor: Professor Francis Haskell.

1986-1988 M.A. Program, History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, . Theses: "Conquering the Market: Monet in the 1890s;" "The East Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi". Supervisors: Professor Paul Tucker and Professor R.R.R. Smith.

1977-1981 B.A. with honors, French, History, and Art History, University of Virginia.

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

Fellowships

Willard L. Boyd Fellow, The Chief Executive Program, National Arts Strategies, 2011-2013 Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School; University of Texas, Austin Business School; and University of Michigan Ross School of Business Faculty Fellow, Rockefeller College, Princeton University, 2011- Old Dominion Fellow, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University, 2009-2011 British Council Research Fellowships, 1994, 1995 Mellon Fund Fellow, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1993-1994 Art History Fellow, Virginia Museum Foundation, 1990-1991 Arnold, Bryce and Read Trust Award [for research travel], Oxford University, 1991 Librairie Léonce Laget Award, College Art Association, 1991 Overseas Student Scholarship, Oxford University, 1988-1991 Council of Friends Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1986-1987 Levy Odyssey Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1987

Grants

Collections activation/research grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2011 Collections interpretation grant, Getty Foundation, 2006 Collections interpretation grants, IMLS, 2006, 2007, 2008 Challenge grant, Kresge Foundation, 2005 Exhibition grants, National Endowment for the Arts, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005 Exhibition grants, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994, 1997 Exhibition grants, Ford Motor Company Fund, 1999, 2000-2003, 2006-2007 Exhibition grant, Florence Gould Foundation, 2007 Exhibition grant, Foundation, 2003 Exhibition grant, American Ireland Fund, 1997 Exhibition grant, Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, 1996

Awards

Photography Book of the Year, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2002 Museum Catalogue of the Year (1st runner-up), Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2006 Museum Catalogue of the Year, Western Books Association, 1996 Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service, University of California, Berkeley, 1996

2 Notable Book of the Year, The Independent of London, 1995 Who’s Who in American Business, 2000-2013 editions Who’s Who in American Art, 2001-2013 editions Marquis’ Who’s Who in America, 2004-2013 editions

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Catalogues

The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830 (240 pp, 160 illus.), University Art Museum/University of Washington Press, July 1995.

Exhibition handbooks, including Edvard Munch and His Models (Berkeley, 1992), American Vernacular: Folk Art from the Collection (Berkeley, 1994), Bernard Maybeck (Berkeley, 1997), and When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative from Twentieth-Century Ireland (Berkeley, 1998).

Edited Books and Catalogues

The Mask of Venice: Masking, Theater, and Identity in the Art of Tiepolo and His Time (Berkeley and Seattle: Berkeley Art Museum/University of Washington Press, 120 pp., 88 illus., 1996).

When Time Began to Rant & Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland (Berkeley and London: Berkeley Art Museum/Merrell Holberton Publishers, 288 pp., 255 illus., 1998).

In Human Touch: Photographs by Ernestine Ruben (Portland and Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 204 pp., 170 illus., 2001).

The Romanovs Collect: European Art from the State Hermitage Museum (Ann Arbor and London: University of Michigan Museum of Art/Merrell Publishers, 208 pp., 165 illus., 2003).

Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 176 pp., 2005).

Exhibition handbooks including Hero of Two Worlds (New York, 1988), Gertrude Jekyll: Private Gardens, Vanishing Arts (Berkeley, 1993), Innocence and Experience (London and Manchester, 1994), Donald Sultan: The Smoke Rings (Ann Arbor, 2001).

Articles

"American Vernacular," American Art Review, Vol. VI, No. 6, December 1994/January 1995, pp. 84-89.

“Masks and Meanings in Tiepolo’s Venice,” The Mask of Venice: Masking, Theater, and Identity in the Art of Tiepolo and His Time, Berkeley and Seattle: University of California/ University of Washington Press, December 1996, pp. 15-33.

Entries on Thomas Gainsborough, William Mulready, Landscape Painting, and Genre Painting in Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia, New York: Garland Press,

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“The Irishness of Irish Painting,” When Time Began to Rant & Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland, Berkeley and London: University of California/Merrell Holberton Publishers, October 1998, pp. 16-22.

“The Camera of Sally Mann and the Spaces of Childhood, Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 2, April 2000, pp. 365-375.

“Formalist Fragments and Postmodern Manipulations,” In Human Touch: Photographs by Ernestine Ruben, Portland and Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2001, pp. 64-79.

“The Private Taste of the Romanovs in Eighteenth-Century Russia,” in The Romanovs Collect: European Art from the State Hermitage Museum, Ann Arbor and London: University of Michigan Museum of Art/Merrell Publishers, 2003, pp. 14-27.

“’Lest We Forget’: The Liberating Art of Betye Saar,” Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, pp. 10-19.

“Francis Haskell: A biographical memoir,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 149, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 593-597.

“Masks and Meanings in Tiepolo’s Venice,” A Carnivale Celebration, Save Venice, Inc., 2006.

Guest editorial, Museum Practice, magazine of the Museums Association, December 2006.

EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED

Edvard Munch and His Models 1912-1944, Berkeley Art Museum, 1992.

Gertrude Jekyll: Private Gardens, Vanishing Arts, Berkeley Art Museum, 1993.

Prints from the Collection in Honor of R. E. Lewis, Berkeley Art Museum, 1994.

American Vernacular: Folk Art from the Collection, Berkeley Art Museum, 1994.

The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830, Berkeley Art Museum, 1995. Toured to Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

Innocence and Experience in German Expressionist Art, Berkeley Art Museum, 1996.

The Mask of Venice: Masking, Theater, and Identity in the Art of Tiepolo and His Time, Berkeley Art Museum, 1996.

Masterworks of Greek & Roman Art from the Hearst Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, 1996. Exhibition co-curated with Professor Andrew Stewart.

Bernard Maybeck Drawings, Berkeley Art Museum, 1997.

Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy, British Museum, London; Berkeley Art Museum; 1998. Exhibition curated by Professor David Bindman.

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When Time Began to Rant & Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland, Berkeley Art Museum, 1998. Exhibition toured to Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; University of Michigan Museum of Art.

In Human Touch: Photographs by Ernestine Ruben, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2001.

Donald Sultan: The Smoke Rings, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2001.

Treasures of the Romanovs: European Art from the State Hermitage Museum, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2003.

Rethinking the Photographic Image: The Best of Photography from George Eastman House, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2006.

INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

"The New Child: Children's Bodies in Georgian Britain," for "The Body in Representation," University College, London, 1990.

"Nationalisms in 18th-Century Portraiture," World Congress on the Enlightenment, Bristol, England, 1991.

"The Georgian Portrait and National Identity," University College, Dublin, Ireland, 1992.

"Children in Reynolds and Gainsborough," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Midwest Chapter, Toledo, OH, 1992.

"William Hogarth and the Satirical Print," California Fine Print Fair, San Francisco, 1993.

"Archaic Narrative and the Siphnian Treasury," Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, Seattle, 1993.

"The Face of Childhood in British Art, 1730-1830," Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Joslyn Art Museum, 1995-96.

"How Irish Was It? Irish Portrait and Landscape Painting," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Austin, Texas, 1996.

"Reading and the English Garden: Narrative Structures and the English Landscape Garden, 1730-1800," Anglo-Irish-French Conference "The Genius of the Place," York, England, 1996.

"Unmasking Venice," De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1997.

"Giuseppe de Gobbis and the Mask of Venice," San Diego Museum of Art, October 1997.

"Hogarth and His Times," De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1998.

“Hogarth and English Satire,” Cincinnati Art Museum, 1998.

5 “The Irishness of Irish Painting,” Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England; Berkeley Art Museum, 1998, 1999.

“Taking the New Art History Public,” Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, New York, 2000.

“British Painting in the Detroit Institute of Arts,” Detroit Institute of Arts, 2003.

“The Social Responsibility of Museums,” University of Michigan, 2005.

“Reimagining the Museum,” University of Michigan, 2006.

“The Art of Close Looking: Observation in Gallery and Clinic,” Inaugural Chang Lectureship, University of Michigan Medical Center, January 2008.

“The Charles Lang Freer Legacy: Collector, Educator, Mentor,” Freer House, Detroit, February 2008.

“The Art Museum of the 21st Century: Temple or Town Square?,” University of Virginia, March 2008.

"The Ethics of Owning the Past: Nazi-Era Provenance at the University of Michigan”, Conference on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Archives and the Ethics of Memory Construction, University of Michigan, May 2008.

“A Museum for the 21st Century,” University of Notre Dame, September 2008.

“What’s So Special about the University Museum?,” University of Michigan, October 2009.

“Museums and the Power of Display,” Princeton University, March 2010.

CONFERENCES, SESSIONS, AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED

"Irish Arts and National Identity," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, Tucson, Arizona, April 1995.

"Queering the Object," Association of Art Historians annual conference, London, England, April 1995.

"The Curator and Excellence and Equity," Western Museums Association annual conference, Oakland, California, October 1995.

"(Re)Constructing the Face of Childhood: Art, Society and the Printed Word in Georgian Britain," international symposium, UC Berkeley, October 1995.

Member, Host Committee, Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Berkeley, February 1997.

Member, Program Committee, Western Museums Association Annual Conference, San Diego, California, September 1997.

"Hogarth and His Times," international symposium, UC Berkeley, February 1998.

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“British Art and Constructs of Modernity,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 1999.

“Irish Art, Politics, and Identity,” international symposium, UC Berkeley, March 1999.

Conference Co-Chair and Program Chair, Annual Meeting of the Michigan Museums Association, Ann Arbor, MI, September 1999.

“Meaningful Objects: Museums in the Academy,” theme semester and international symposium (co-chair with Professor Ray Silverman), University of Michigan, Fall 2009.

“Hogarth’s London,” Princeton University, October 2011.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Princeton University

Co-chair, Campus Art Steering Committee, 2009- Architectural Review Committee, 2009- President’s Arts Initiative, 2009- Executive Committee, Program in Hellenic Studies, 2010- Faculty Fellow, Rockefeller College, 2011- Old Dominion Fellow, Council on the Humanities, 2009-2011

University of Michigan

Chair, Museum of Art Executive Committee, 1998-2009 Chair, President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art, 2006-2009 Public Goods Council, 1998-2009 Executive Committee, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 1998-2009 Steering Committee, Museum Studies Program, 2002-2009 External Elements Design Review Committee, 1998-2009 Chair, Museum Studies Working Group, 1998-2001 Visiting Artists Committee, School of Art & Design, 1998-2002 University Campaign Committee, 1999-2001 Search Committee, Dean, School of Art & Design, 1999-2000 Search Committee, Chair, Department of History of Art, 2000-2001 Search Committee, Dean, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, 2007-2008 University Commission on the Information Revolution, 2000-2001 Rackham Graduate School Divisional Board in the Humanities, 2000-2002 Royal Shakespeare Company Residency Committee, 2001-2003 Fulbright Award Committee, 2002, 2007

SELECTED TEACHING

“Introduction to Museum Studies,” History of Art Department, UC Berkeley, 1993, 1994, 1995 “Problems in Eighteenth-Century Art,” History of Art Department, UC Berkeley, 1995 “The Eighteenth-Century Portrait,” History of Art Department, UC Berkeley, 1996 “Order and Chaos in Enlightenment Art,” History of Art Department, University of Michigan,

7 2002 “Art and Culture in Tsarist Russia, “History of Art Department, University of Michigan, 2003 “Museums and the Public Good,” Third Annual Cantor Seminar, Horace Rackham School for Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 2005 “Order and Chaos in Enlightenment Art and History,” Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2011, 2014

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY BODIES & BOARDS

Association of Art Museum Directors 1999- Government Affairs Committee 1999-2007 Education and Community Issues Committee 2008- College Art Association 1986- American Alliance of Museums 1991- National Trust for Historic Preservation 1991- Michigan Museums Association Board of Directors 1999-2005 Vice President for Membership 2001-2005 Association of Academic Museums and Galleries 2001- Greenhills School, Ann Arbor, MI Board of Directors 2005-2009 Vice President 2006-2007 Chair, Development Committee 2007-2009 Humane Society of the Huron Valley, Ann Arbor, MI Campaign Committee 2007-2009 Ann Arbor Arts Alliance Board of Directors 2007-2009 McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, NJ Board of Trustees 2010- Finance Committee 2012- University of Virginia Art Museum Advisory Board 2008-

REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

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