Artist-Curators and Art Historian-Curators at the Edge: by Austen Barron Bailly |
About the Author: Austen Barron Bailly is assistant curator of American art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of California , Santa Barbara . Her dissertation, “Painting the American Historical Epic : Thomas Hart Benton and Race, 1919-1936,” is in progress. |