Beth Morrison

Elizabeth Morrison is Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She received her PhD in the History of Art from Cornell University and began work at the Getty in 1996. During her twenty-five years there, she has curated numerous exhibitions, including Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500 in 2010 and Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World in 2019. The accompanying publications for both shows were finalists for most prestigious honor in museum work, the College Arts Association award for outstanding exhibition catalogue. She has written or edited six books as well as a dozen articles in the specialized area of French and Flemish manuscript illumination. A leader in her field, she has served on the boards of the International Center of Medieval Art and the Medieval Academy of America, and is currently the Vice President of the Association of Art Museum Curators.