Annette Blaugrund Annette Blaugrund, former director of the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts (1997–2007), has published and lectured widely on American art and culture. She was the Andrew W. Mellon senior curator at the New-York Historical Society and acurator at the Brooklyn Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has written sixteen books about American art, including Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition (1989), The Tenth Street Studio Building (1997), John James Audubon (1999), and Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect (2016). In 1992 she was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government and in 2008 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Design. She has a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University (1987), where she taught American art (1996–2001). She is consulting curator at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, sits on Columbia University Art History Department’s Advisory Council, and is co-curator and project manager for this exhibition and catalogue. Read More Read Less