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Lara Yeager-Crasselt

Lara Yeager-Crasselt is an American art historian and curator of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art.[1] She studied art history Vassar College and the University of Maryland, where she received her PhD.[2]

Yeager-Crasselt was supervised during her dissertation at the University of Maryland her by the American art historian and curator Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., who was the Curator of Northern European at the National Gallery of Art, from 1975-2018, and succeeded by the American curator and art historian Betsy Wieseman.[3]

She is specialized in the work of the Flemish painter Michael Sweerts, on whom she wrote her dissertation, which was published in 2015.[4][5]

From 2017-2022 she was curator of the Leiden Collection; a private art collection, portions of which were exhibited at the Louvre and the Louvre Abu Dhabi.[6][7][8][9] Before her appointment at the Leiden Collection she was interim curator at the Clark Art Institute.[10] Since 2022, she has been the Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, at the Baltimore Museum of Art.[11]

Publications

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Yeager-Crasselt has extensively published on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, the dynamics of artistic exchange between the Low Countries and Italy, and issues of artistic mobility, identity, and collaboration:

  • Portrait of a Gentleman. Michael Sweerts (1618-1664) and the Elegance of Brussels Portraiture (2021)[12]
  • Changing Forms: Metamorphosis in Myth, Art, and Nature 1650–1700 (2021)[13]
  • An Inner World: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting (2021)[14]
  • Roma 1629 (Pensieri ad Arte series) (2020)[15]
  • Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age (2019)[16]
  • The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection (2017)[17]
  • Splendor, Myth and Vision: Nudes from the Prado (2016)[18]
  • Knowledge and Practice Pictured in the Artist’s Studio: The ‘Art Lover’ in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands (2016)[19]
  • Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels (2015)[20]
  • Facts & Feelings: Retracing emotions of artists, 1600-1800 (2015)[21]
  • Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century (2014)[22]

References

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  1. ^ "Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Leslie Cozzi, and Brittany Luberda". The Daily Record. September 22, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  2. ^ "BMA Appoints Lara Yeager-Crasselt as Curator of European Painting and Sculpture". CODART. 27 September 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  3. ^ CODART. "Arthur Wheelock Retires from the National Gallery of Art." CODART, 9 May 2018, https://www.codart.nl/personal/arthur-wheelock-retires-from-the-national-gallery-of-art/. Accessed 2 Aug. 2024.
  4. ^ Yeager-Crasselt, Lara (2015). Michael Sweerts (1618–1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels. Brepols Publishers. ISBN 9782503555300.
  5. ^ Sluijter-Seijffert, Nicolette (December 2017). "Michael Sweerts (1618–1664). Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels". Early Modern Low Countries. Pictura Nova XXI. 1 (2): 357–360. doi:10.18352/emlc.35. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  6. ^ "Timken Museum of Art Presents The Leiden Collection: Exchanging Words - Women and Letters in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting". Timken Museum of Art. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  7. ^ "A Chat with Lara Yeager-Crasselt". Selections Arts. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  8. ^ "Introducing New Curator at the Leiden Collection in New York". DutchCultureUSA. August 18, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  9. ^ "Rembrandt en majesté au Louvre Abu Dhabi". Les Echos. February 13, 2019. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  10. ^ Pogrebin, Robin (February 4, 2016). "On Stellar Rays Expands Its Lower East Side Universe". The New York Times. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
  11. ^ "Lara Yeager-Crasselt". Baltimore Museum of Art. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  12. ^ Yeager-Crasselt, Lara (2021). Portrait of a Gentleman. Michael Sweerts (1618-1664) and the Elegance of Brussels Portraiture. Phoebus Focus. Veurne: Hannibal.
  13. ^ Nogrady, Elizabeth; Yeager-Crasselt, Lara, eds. (2021). "The Rules of Ovid: Myth, Classicism, and Metamorphosis in the Late Seventeenth-Century Netherlands". Changing Forms: Metamorphosis in Myth, Art, and Nature 1650–1700. Poughkeepsie: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. pp. 24–33.
  14. ^ Moqtaderi, Heather; Yeager-Crasselt, Lara, eds. (2021). "Embracing an Inner World in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting". An Inner World: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 19–33.
  15. ^ Yeager-Crasselt, Lara (2020). "Joachim von Sandrart's 'Academy of Antiquity' and François Duquesnoy: The Experience of Academy and Community in Rome in 1629". In Blanc, Jan; Osnabrugge, Marije (eds.). Roma 1629 (Pensieri ad Arte series). Rome: Editoriale Artemide. pp. 69–92.
  16. ^ Ducos, Blaise; Yeager-Crasselt, Lara (2019). Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age. London: Saqi Books.
  17. ^ Yeager-Crasselt, Lara, ed. (2017). The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection. Boston: Boundless Books.
  18. ^ Yeager-Crasselt, Lara; Loughman, Thomas J.; Morris, Kathleen M., eds. (2016). Splendor, Myth and Vision: Nudes from the Prado. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  19. ^ Yeager-Crasselt, Lara (2016). "Knowledge and Practice Pictured in the Artist's Studio: The 'Art Lover' in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands". De Zeventiende Eeuw. 32 (2): 110–126.
  20. ^ Yeager-Crasselt, Lara (2015). Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels. Pictura Nova: Studies in 16th– and 17th– Century Flemish Painting and Drawing. Vol. 21. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers.
  21. ^ Yeager-Crasselt, Lara (2015). "Pride and ambition in seventeenth-century Brussels. The drawing academy of Michael Sweerts". In van der Stighelen, K.; Magnus, H. (eds.). Facts & Feelings: Retracing emotions of artists, 1600-1800. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. pp. 151–167.
  22. ^ Yeager-Crasselt, Lara (2014). Wheelock, Arthur K. Jr. (ed.). "Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century". National Gallery of Art.
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