Judith A. Barter

Dr. Judith Barter is the Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of many books and exhibitions including Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman (1999), Edward Hopper (2007), Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier (2001), Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago (2009), and American Art In the Age of Impressionism (2011), and two major collection catalogs, American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (1999), and American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago (2009). She was selected by the New York Times as a notable American curator (1999), was selected by the Chicago Tribune as "Chicagoan of the Year" for the arts in 2005, and has appeared on the NBC Today show and on PBS. Dr. Barter has held a senior fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, and has received the Distinguished Scholarship award from the Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts. Her recent publications include For Kith and Kin: Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (2012) and her upcoming exhibition and publication, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture and Cuisine (2013) will look at American still-life painting and the symbolism of painting American foods.