September 24, 2006 - January 7, 2007
Marjorie E. Wieseman – Biography
Betsy Wieseman is Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Prior to coming to Cincinnati in 2001, she was Curator of Western Art before 1850 at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Ms Wieseman received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1991 with a dissertation on the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Caspar Netscher; her book on this artist was published in 2002. Much of her research has been focused on Baroque painting in Northern Europe, particularly portraiture and issues of patronage. She collaborated on an exhibition of paintings by Gerard ter Borch, which opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in November 2004; and co-organized an exhibition of oil sketches by Peter Paul Rubens in 2004-2005. Together with Julie Aronson, Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Cincinnati Art Museum, she organized the exhibition of European and American portrait miniatures entitled “Perfect Likeness,” which opened at the Cincinnati Art Museum in March 2006. In December 2006 she will assume the position of Curator of Dutch Painting at the National Gallery, London.