David Solkin

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David Hersh Solkin, FBA (born Montreal, 16 March 1951) [1] is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, which he joined in 1986. [2] In 2007, Solkin became the institute's first dean and deputy director. Solkin is an expert in the art of J. M. W. Turner.

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He was educated at Harvard College (AB), The Courtauld Institute of Art (MA) and Yale University (PhD, 1978). [3]

In 2002, Solkin was awarded the William M. B. Berger Prize for the exhibition and catalogue Art on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836 (The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2001–2). [4]

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References

  1. ‘SOLKIN, Prof. David Hersh’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 29 April 2013
  2. Professor David Solkin, Dean and Deputy Director. The Courtauld Institute, 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2013. Archived here.
  3. "Solkin, Prof. David Hersh, (born 16 March 1951), Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2010–16, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, 2017." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 Dec. 2009 (Subscription required.)
  4. News archive 2004. King's College London, 22 December 2004. Retrieved 21 April 2013. Archived here.