A Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He received his Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006 and wrote his dissertation on the artist Ivan Albright (1897-1983). Much of his work has focused on the 1940s but he has shifted his research to the 1960s and to the period immediately following World War I. He has organized numerous exhibitions for PAFA including, Light, Line and Color: American Works on Paper 1765-2005 (2005)
