Shouky Shaheen Distinguished Lecture

Speaker Bio:

Dr. William Keyse Rudolph is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chief Curator and the Marie and Hugh Halff Curator of American Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Exhibitions he has organized include Thomas Sully: Painted Performance (2013–2014), In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans (2011–2012), Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist (2008–2009), and Charles Sheeler’s Power Series (2006), among others. Publications include Masterpieces of English and American Painting and Decorative Arts from the Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection (2011) and Vaudechamp in New Orleans (2007).  A specialist in Colonial and Federal American art, Rudolph is a Trustee of the Association of Art Museum Curators.