Experience

Dixon Gallery & Gardens

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Linda W. and S. Herbert Rhea Director

  • Aug 2007 - Present

  Forged international partnerships for Dixon via Jean-Louis Forain retrospective in 2011. Originated seven major exhibitions since 2009 that have traveled or will travel to nineteen venues in US and Europe. Grew audience, membership and donor base through enhanced education programs and unique special events. Built ongoing collaborations with other cultural institutions throughtout Memphis. Instituted free Saturday mornings, pay-what-you-can Tuesdays, and a host of family-oriented education programs. Sole or contributing author to seventeen books and exhibition catalogues on American and European art, as well as many articles and reviews. An exhibition, based on his book "Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era" opened in June 2012 at VMFA, Richmond. Since then, Dixon has organized and circulated numerous exhibitions, including Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection, Charles Courtney Curran: Seeking the Ideal, and various ensembles from the permanent collection.



Cedarhurst, Mt. Vernon, IL

• Director of Visual Arts

  • 2003 - 2007

  Organized forty-two exhibitions and directed a ninety-acre sculpture park. Authored a catalogue of Cedarhurst's extraordinary collection of American paintings. Organized forty-two exhibitions and directed a ninety-acre sculpture park. Authored a catalogue of Cedarhurst's extraordinary collection of American paintings.



Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

• Curator of American Art

  • 1998 - 2003

  Added over 100 works of art to its permanent collection in five years. Added over 100 works of art to its permanent collection in five years.



Art Institute of Chicago

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Curator

  • Jan 1988 - Oct 1998

  Co-organizer and co-author of the 1994 Odilon Redon and 1998 Mary Cassatt retrospectives and contributing author to catalogue raisonne of James McNeill Whistler's lithographs, published in 1998. Co-organizer and co-author of the 1994 Odilon Redon and 1998 Mary Cassatt retrospectives and contributing author to catalogue raisonne of James McNeill Whistler's lithographs, published in 1998.