Ronni Baer

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Ronni Baer
Born1954 (age 71–72)
Alma mater New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
OccupationsCurator, art historian

Ronni Baer (born 1954) is an American art historian and museum curator specializing in paintings from the Dutch Golden Age and the Spanish Golden Age. She has curated several exhibitions and written publications, delivered lectures and participated in projects about 17th-century European art. [1]

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Career

Baer studied French literature at Emory University for her undergraduate degree and attended graduate school at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she earned her PhD in art history, writing her dissertation on Gerrit Dou, a student of Rembrandt. [2] Baer held research, teaching and curatorial positions at numerous institutions in her early career including the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, The Frick Collection, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the High Museum of Art, the University of Georgia and the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University.

Thereafter she was Senior Curator of European Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 2008 to 2019, after which time she was appointed as the Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer at the Princeton University Art Museum. [3] [4] [5] While at Princeton she has researched the university's collection of European paintings. In 2023 she established with certainty that Wild Boar Hunt, a painting formerly catalogued as Death of Adonis, had been created by Peter Paul Rubens. [6]

In 2008 Baer was awarded an Encomienda in the Orden de Isabel la Católica by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, for her contributions to the promotion and study of Spanish and Dutch art. [7] In 2017 she was appointed Knight-Commander in the Order of Orange-Nassau by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, for her role in improving relations between museums in the United States and in the Netherlands. [8]

Major exhibitions

This exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, discussed the social stratification depicted in Dutch Golden Age painting and the relationship between art and society in 17th-century Netherlands. [9] Princess Beatrix, former Queen of the Netherlands, attended the opening. [10] [11] [12]

● El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III

Exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: April 20—July 27, 2008 and Nasher Museum at Duke University: August 22—November 9, 2008 [13] [14] [15]

● Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter • Draftsman • Etcher

Organized in collaboration with Clifford Ackley, Thomas Rassieur, and William Robinson; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: October 26, 2003-January 18, 2004 and Art Institute of Chicago: February 14-May 9, 2004 [16] [17]

An exhibition of about sixty 17th-century Dutch paintings, including landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and genre scenes, that had been collected in Boston. [18]

● Gerrit Dou (1613-1675): Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt

Exhibition at National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: April 16-August 6, 2000; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London: September 6-November 19, 2000 and The Mauritshuis, The Hague: December 9, 2000-February 25, 2001 [19] [20] [21]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Ronni Baer". Codart. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  2. ↑ "Newest Carlos curator Ronni Baer no stranger to Emory". Emory Report. Emory University. October 26, 1998. Retrieved September 27, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Ronni Baer". Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  4. ↑ Armstrong, Annie (2019-02-19). "Ronni Baer Named Princeton University Art Museum's Distinguished Curator and Lecturer". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  5. ↑ Brown, Lillian (2019-02-20). "MFA curator Ronni Baer heads to Princeton". Boston.com. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  6. ↑ Vanduffel, Dirk (2023-10-13). "The Princeton University Art Museum Reattributes a Painting to Rubens". ARTnews. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  7. ↑ ""Curator Ronni Baer Knighted by Spain"". artforum.com. February 9, 2009. Retrieved January 8, 2026.
  8. ↑ "Ronni Baer Awarded a Knighthood of the Order of Oranje-Nassau". Historians of Netherlandish Art. August 24, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
  9. ↑ Mashberg, Tom (October 27, 2015). "Class Distinctions, a Boston Show, Highlights Social Divisions in 17th-Century Dutch Life". New York Times. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  10. ↑ Khvan, Olga (2015-10-07). "Dutch Royalty—in Portraits and Real Life—Visits the MFA for 'Class Distinctions'". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  11. ↑ Mashberg, Tom (November 1, 2015). "Dutch Society in Detailed Strokes". New York Times. p. 26.
  12. ↑ Smee, Sebastian (October 9, 2015). "Painting Class". Boston Globe, Weekend. pp. 1, 4.
  13. ↑ Lacayo, Richard (April 28, 2008). "Making it Real". Time Magazine. p. 80.
  14. ↑ Johnson, Ken (April 25, 2008). "Hair-Raising Convergence of the Mystical and the Mundane". New York Times. pp. B26.
  15. ↑ McQuaid, Cate (April 20, 2008). "Spanish Conquest". Boston Sunday Globe. pp. N1.
  16. ↑ Kramer, Hilton (January 19, 2014). "Actor and Painter, Intimate Rembrandt Awaits in Boston". The New York Observer.
  17. ↑ Bevers, Holm (September–October 2005). "Austellungen zu Rembrandt im Rückblick". Kunstchronik. 9/10: 463–471.
  18. ↑ "The poetry of everyday life: Dutch paintings in Boston collections". Codart. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  19. ↑ Richard, Paul (April 16, 2000). "A Dutch Master's Shrinking Grandeur". The Washington Post. pp. G1.
  20. ↑ Melikian, Souren (9–10 September 2000). "The Enchanting Gerrit Dou". International Herald Tribune. p. 8.
  21. ↑ Shaw-Eagle, Joanna (April 15, 2000). "Gerrit Dou Comes Out From Behind Shadow". The Washington Times. pp. D1.
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