CURRICULUM VITAE:  DAVID G. WILKINS

(short version)

September 2005

 

Addresses:

     e-mail:  dgw2+@pitt.edu

     1217 Shady Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232-2811

     home: 412 361-2648              mobile: 412-916-3243                fax: 412-362-3679

 

Education:

       University of Michigan, M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Art, 1963 and1969 (Dissertation: Maso di Banco, A Florentine Artist of the Early Trecento; Director: Marvin J. Eisenberg)

     Oberlin College, B.A. in History, 1961

 

Positions:

University of Pittsburgh, H. C. Frick Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture, 1967-present

     Instructor, 1967-1969

     Assistant Professor, 1969-1971

     Associate Professor, 1971-1983

     Professor, 1983-2004

     Director, University Art Gallery, 1976-1992

     Chair, 1989-1992, 1998-2004

     Professor Emeritus, 2004-present

Semester-at-Sea Program, University of Pittsburgh

     Faculty, Fall 1988

     Academic Dean, Fall 1993

Duquesne University, Rome Program

     Faculty, Fall 2004

Pitt in London program

     Faculty, Fall 1997

Rutgers University

     Distinguished Visiting Professor, Winter term, 1988

Sarah Lawrence College-University of Michigan Summer Session in Florence, Faculty member, 1975-1979, 1981

University of New Hampshire, Instructor, 1963-1964

 

Fellowships, Honors, Grants:

National Award for Distinguished Teaching of Art History from the College Art Association, 2005

CAS Dean’s Office Curriculum Development Award ($2500), 1994

Hewlitt Grants Award ($2000), University of Pittsburgh, 1994

Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, 1987

Chancellor's Undergraduate Teaching Fellowships, University of Pittsburgh, 1976, 1978, 1979

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Grants, University of Pittsburgh, 1970, 1971, 1979

William E. Suida Fellowship to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1966-1967

Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Fraternity, 1965

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, University of Michigan,  1964-1965

 

Professional Associations:

College Art Association

Italian Art Society

Renaissance Society of America

 

National and International Biographies:

Who's Who in America, 1983-

International Who's Who in Education, 1979-

Directory of American Scholars, 1982-

Who's Who in American Art, 1978-

Who's Who in the East, l984-

 

References:  On Request

 

Work in progress:

Editor for St. Paul Cathedral in Pittsburgh: A Centennial Celebration; to be published in 2007

Co-author for the Sixth Edition of Frederick Hartt and David G. Wilkins, History of Italian Renaissance Art, to be published in 2006

Rural Enlightenment: The Architecture of New Hampshire’s Public Libraries (tentative title), co-authored with Ann Thomas Wilkins

 

Work in press:

The Collins Big Book of Art (general editor), to be released 11-1-05

 

Publications:

 

Books:

Revised fifth edition of Art Past/Art Present, by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff, Pearson & Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2004

Co-author for the Fifth Edition of Frederick Hartt and David G. Wilkins, History of Italian Renaissance Art, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and Harry Abrams, New York, 2002

The Art of the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh: Duquesne Club Art & Library Committee, 2001

Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in the Italian Renaissance, (Sixteenth-Century Essays & Studies LIV), co-edited by Sheryl E. Reiss and David G. Wilkins, Kirksville MO: Truman State University Press, 2001. “Introduction: Recognizing New Patrons, Posing New Questions,” 1-18.

Revised fourth edition of Art Past/Art Present, by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and Harry Abrams Inc., New York, 2001

Revised third edition of Art Past/Art Present,  by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and Harry Abrams Inc., New York, 1997

The Search for A Patron in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by David G. Wilkins and Rebecca L. Wilkins, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 1996

Revising Editor for the Fourth Edition of Frederick Hartt, History of Italian Renaissance Art, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and Harry Abrams, New York, 1994

Revised second edition of Art Past/Art Present,  by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and Harry Abrams Inc., New York, 1994

Art Past/Art Present, by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and Harry Abrams, New York, 1990. 

A History of the Duquesne Club (with Mark Brown and Lu Donnelly), published by the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, 1989.  (This book won "best of category" in the Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Western Pennsylvania Printing, sponsored by the Western Pennsylvania Printing Association).

Paintings and Sculpture of the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, published by the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, 1986.

Donatello (German edition), with Bonnie A. Bennett, Stuttgart, Verlag Urachhaus, 1986.

The Illustrated Bartsch, volume 53 ("Pre-Rembrandt Etchers"), with Kahren J. (Hellerstedt) Arbitman, New York, Abaris Books, l985.

Maso di Banco: A Florentine Artist of the Early Trecento ("Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts"; series editor: Sydney Freedberg), New York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985.

Donatello (American edition), with Bonnie A. Bennett, Mt. Kisco, New York, Moyer-Bell, 1985.

Donatello (British edition), with Bonnie A. Bennett, Oxford, Phaidon, 1984.

 

Encyclopedia and Dictionary Articles:

“Taddeo di Bartolo,” for Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, to be published by Taylor & Francis, 2003

 “Nanni di Banco:  Four Saints,” and “Andrea Pisano:  Bronze Doors, Florentine Baptistery,” for The Encyclopedia of Sculpture (ed. Antonia Boström), New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004, v. 2, pp. 1143-44 and v. 3, pp. 1297-98

 Brooklyn Bridge,” “Frederick Law Olmstead,” “Henry Hobson Richardson,” “Russell Sturgis,” for The Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age, ed. Leonard Schlup and James G. Ryan, London: M. E. Sharpe, 2003

Five entries for The Dictionary of Art (ed. XX):  "Italian Painting 1400-1500," "The Architecture of the Cancelleria Palace, Rome," "The Architecture of the Quirinal Palace, Rome," "The Decoration of the Quirinal Palace, Rome," and "Agostino Chigi", MacMillan Publishers, London, 1996

Six entries for the International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture (ed. Randall J. Van Vynckt):  "Hagia Sophia, Istanbul" "St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, " “Sinan,” "Lomonosov University, Moscow," "Cistern, Istanbul," and "Ponte Vecchio, Florence" (the last two co-authored with Rebecca L. Wilkins), St. James Press, Chicago, 1993

"John Russell Pope's National Gallery of Art," in Contemporary Masterworks (ed. Colin Naylor), London, St. James Press, 1991, p. 445.

"Andrea del Castagno," "Paolo Uccello," "Luca della Robbia," in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. by Thomas G. Bergin and Jennifer Speake, London, 1987.

Ten entries on Renaissance and Baroque painters for the Academic American Encyclopedia, Princeton, 1980.

 

Articles (partial list):

“Opening the Doors to Devotion: Trecento Triptychs and Suggestions Concerning Images and Domestic Practice in Florence,” in Victor M. Schmidt (ed.) Italian Panel Painting of the Duecento and Trecento (Studies in the History of Art, 61), Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2002, 371-93.

"In the Defense of Florentine Republicanism:  St. Anne and Florentine Art, 1343 to 1575" (with Roger J. Crum), in Interpreting Cultural Symbols:  St. Anne in Late Medieval Culture (ed. Kathy Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn), University of Georgia Press, 1990.

"Bernardo Daddi's Triptych in the Bigallo," Italian Studies (American Association for Italian Studies), 6, 1985, 31-41.

"Illustrating The Mirror of Spanish Cruelty," Papers from the 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference of Netherlandic Art, University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1987, 147-155.

"Donatello's Lost Dovizia for the Mercato Vecchio, Florence:  Wealth and Charity as Florentine Civic Virtues," Art Bulletin 65, 1983, 401-23.

"New Information on Works by David Gilmour Blythe," American Art Journal 13, Autumn, 1981, 85-87.

"The Meaning of Space in Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Painting," By Things Seen:  Reference and Recognition in Medieval Thought (ed. L. Jeffrey), Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press, 1979, 109-121.

"Early Florentine Frescoes in Santa Maria Novella," Art Quarterly n.s.1, 1978, 141-174.

"K. Xavier-Roussel's The Window," Carnegie Magazine 52, December, 1978, 17-19.

"Woman as Artist and Patron in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," in The Roles and Images of Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Pittsburgh, 1975, 108-130.

"The American Painting Collection at the Sarah Scaife Gallery, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh," American Art Review 2, 1975, 95-108.

"On the Original Appearance of Giotto's Ognissanti Madonna," Art Quarterly 33, 1970, 1-15. (See also: "Letter to the Editor," Art Quarterly 33, 1970, 450-453). (reprinted in Giotto and the World of Early Italian Art:  Giotto, Master Painter and Architect, ed. Andrew Ladis (New York, 1998)

"Maso di Banco and Cenni di Francesco: A Case of Late Trecento Revival," Burlington Magazine 111, 1969, 83-84.

 

Book, Concert, and Exhibition Reviews (partial list):

Review of Alessandro Vittoria and the Portrait Bust in Renaissance Venice. by Thomas Martin (Oxford University Press), for Sixteenth-Century Studies

On-Line Review of Paul Barolsky, Michelangelo and the Finger of God (Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, 2003), CAA Reviews 2004

Review of Robert L. McGrath, Gods in Granite: The Art of the White Mountains of New Hampshire (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001), for Historical New Hampshire, 2002, 55-56

Review of Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova, ed. Bruce Boucher (New Haven: Yale University Press) and Francesco Caglioti, Donatello e i Medici: Storia della David e della Giuditta (Florence: Leo S. Olschki), Renaissance Quarterly, 56 (2003), 777-79

Review of Robert Zwijnenberg, The Writings and Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci:  Order and Chaos in Early Modern Thought, Sixteenth-Century Studies 32 (2001), 509-11

On-Line Review of Megan Holmes, Fra Filippo Lippi:  The Carmelite Painter, CAA Reviews (2000)

Review of Catherine E. King, Renaissance Women Patrons: Wives and Widows in Italy c. 1300-1550, Sixteenth-Century Studies 30 (1999), 579-80

Review of Raphael before Rome, National Gallery of Art, Washington,1987, Speculum, 63, 1988, 898-99

Review of Carlo Ginzburg, The Enigma of Piero, Renaissance Quarterly  40, 1987, 112-114.

Review of Latrobe's View of America (ed. by Edward C. Carter II, John C. Van Horne, and Charles E. Brownell), Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 69, 1986, 63-65.

Review of Bruce Chambers, The World of David Gilmour Blythe, Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 65, 1982, 347-8.

Review of Ronald Lightbown, Botticelli, Renaissance Quarterly 33, 1980, 100-102.

Review of R. Offner, Studies in Florentine Painting, B. Berenson, Homeless Pictures of the Renaissance, and F. Zeri, Diari di lavoro, Art Quarterly n.s. 1, 1978, 117-121.

Review of Arno Preiser, Das Enstehen und die Entwicklung der Predella in der italienischen Malerei, Art Bulletin 58, 1976, 435-7.

Review of Ferdinando Bologna, I pittori alla corte Angioina di Napoli, 1266-1414, e un riesame dell'arte nell'età fridericiana, Art Bulletin 56, 1974, 127-130.

Review of A. Smart, The Assisi Problem and the Art of Giotto, Renaissance Quarterly 26, 1973, 36-37.

Review of J. Stubblebine, Giotto: The Arena Chapel Frescoes, and F. Bologna, Novità su Giotto, Art Quarterly 34, 1971, 113-116.

 

Museum and Gallery Publications (partial list):

“Looking over Herb Olds’ Shoulder,” introduction to an exhibition catalogue of works by Herb Olds, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1997

Reflections and Realities: Selections from the Collection of Kitty and Harold Ruttenberg (ex. cat., 1983; Introduction, remainder authored by students under my direction).

"Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown," in The 1983 Hazlett Memorial Awards Exhibition for the Visual Arts, 8.

The Lowenthal Gift (ex. cat., 1983; Introduction, remainder authored by a student under my direction).

Art in Nineteenth-Century Pittsburgh (ex. cat., 1977; Introductory Essay, remainder of catalogue authored by seminar students under my direction).

 

Other Publications:

Syllabus on a Disk:  History of Art , computer disks prepared to accompany the fourth edition of H. W. Janson's History of Art, Englewood Cliffs NJ:  Prentice-Hall, 1991.

Study Guide for F.A. 701, Introduction to Art (for an External Studies Course offered at the University of Pittsburgh), 1984; revised 1990

"Foreword" for Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture by Vernon Gay and Marilyn Evert, Pittsburgh, 1983.

Study Guide for F.A. 709, Understanding Architecture: Focus on Pittsburgh (with Gillian Cannell, for an External Studies Course offered at the University of Pittsburgh), 1979.

 

Professional Services:

Local Coordinator of an International Symposium sponsored by the Historians of Netherlandish Art entitled "International Research Conference: Tradition and Innovation in the Study of Northern European Art." Held at the University of Pittsburgh, October 10-12, 1985. This project was supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Helen Clay Frick Foundation, and the Dutch and Belgian governments.

 

Evaluation of Programs:

M.A. in the History of Art, Memphis State University, 1991

 

State and National Service:

Field Editor for Early Modern and Southern European Art, caa.reviews (on-line review website for the College Art Association), January 1, 2005-June 30, 2007

Evaluator for Pennsylvania Council on the Humanities projects, 1984-present

College Art Association, Member of Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award Committee, 1992-1995

Museum Advisory Panel, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1986-88

Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Scholars Program, 1985 Panelist,

Pennsylvania Council on the Humanities, 1984-88

 

Dissertations Directed:

Jennifer Craven, A New Historical View of the Independent Female Portrait in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Painting, 1997

Rosa Prieto Gilday, Depictions of Petrarch’s Triumph of Fame in Fifteenth-Century Florence, 1996

Janet Marstine, Working History:  Images of Labor and Industry in American Mural Painting, 1893-1903, 1993

Kenneth Neal, A Wise Extravaganza:  The Founding of the Carnegie International Exhibitions, 1895-1901, 1993

Roger J. Crum, Retrospection and Response:  The Medici Palace in the Service of the Medici, 1992

Elisabeth Roark, Artist as Subject:  Images of Artists in American Painting, 1830-1860, 1991

Rina Youngner, Paintings and Graphic Images of Industry in Nineteenth-Century Pittsburgh:  A Study in the Relationship between Art and Industry, 1991

Britta Dwyer, Nineteenth-Century Regional Women Artists:  The Pittsburgh School of Design for Women, 1865-1904, 1989

Lauretta Dimmick, Thomas Crawford, American Sculptor in Rome:  Portrait Busts and Ideal Works, 1986.

Gillian Belnap, The Apartment Buildings of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr., with a Catalogue of his Multiple Residences, 1985.

Mary Pardo, Paolo Pino's Dialogo di Pittura: A Translation with Commentary (co-directed with David Summers), 1984.

Bernard Schultz, Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy (co-directed with David Summers), 1984.

Kahren (Hellerstedt) Arbitman, The Hurdy-Gurdy from Hieronymous Bosch to Rembrandt, 1981.

Piero Morselli, A Corpus of Tuscan Pulpits, 1400-1550, 1979.

Bonnie Apgar Bennett, Lippo Memmi: Simone Martini's "Fratello in arte," 1977.

Augustus C. Brown, Jr., The Eight Surviving Pellegrinaio Frescoes of the Ospedale della Scala and Their Social and Visual Sources, 1976.

Lu Berry Wenneker, Giulio Camillo's L'Idea del teatro, 1970.

 

Dissertations In Preparation:

Azar Rejaie, Renaissance Self-Portrayal: Embedded Self-Portraits, Artistic Identity, and Vasari's Program in Both Editions of the Lives

 

 

Lectures, Symposia, and the like (partial listing):

“The Architecture of Assimilation: New Hampshire’s Public Library Buildings and the Social Aspects of Stylistic Choice,” 57th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Providence RI, April 16, 2004

“Bringing the Bridgettine Nativity Home,” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York, April 2, 2004

“A New Athens on the Merrimack: The Impact of Classical Architecture on New Hampshire’s Public Library Buildings,” 98th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of New England, Brooks School, March 13, 2004

 “Rural Enlightenment: The Architecture of New Hampshire’s Public Libraries,” University of New Hampshire at Durham, December 5, 2002

Pittsburgh Architecture:  Lost and Found,” Concordia Club, April, 2000; repeated at the Wood Street Gallery, April 21, 2000

“The Etruscans and Renaissance Art:  The State of the Question,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Florence, Italy, March 2000

Florence,” College Club of Pittsburgh, February, 2000

“Russia after 15 years,” Sewickley Valley Women’s Club, February, 2000

“Edward Hicks’s Peacable Kingdoms,” Pitt Alumni Club of Philadelphia, October 1999

“Dragons and Gargoyles: Pitt’s Campus Revisited,” Arts and Sciences Dean’s Open-House, April 9, 1999

 “Renaissance Art to Nuture the Christian Soul:  Donatello and his Nineteenth-Century Critics,” CAA annual meeting, Los Angeles, February 1999

“Opening the Doors to Devotion: Trecento Triptychs and Suggestions Concerning Images and Domestic Practice in Florence,” National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, October 1998

 “From Peristroika to Pizza Hut: Soviet Union/Russia 1985-96,” Pittsburgh World Affairs Council High School Student Forum, November 1, 1996

“Donatello between the Fifteenth and the Sixteenth Century,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, October 23, 1996

“Special People, Special Places: Tales of a Traveler,” Twentieth-Century Club of Pittsburgh, October 21, 1996

“Patronage in Pittsburgh,” Women’s Committee of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, October 16, 1996

“Rejection and Correction in Florentine Art:  Toward a History of Audience Response in the Renaissance,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York City, March 31, 1995

“Offering an Introduction to Global Material Culture,” at the 83rd Annual Conference of the College Art Association, San Antonio, January 27, 1995

Co-chairperson for panel on "Provincial Art in Italy," sponsored by the Italian Art Society at the 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May, 1994.

Co-chairperson for panel on "Secular Women Patrons in Italy, 400-1600," sponsored by the Italian Art Society at the 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May, 1993.

"Unexpected Brilliance:  The Importance of Color and Additive Materials in Florentine Quattrocento Sculpture," in the session on "Transformation of the Object:  Changing Alliances between Connoisseurship and Restoration," at the 81st Annual College Art Association Conference, Seattle, February 5, 1993

Moderator for “What the Sphinx Thinks:  Issues in Preservation,” sponsored by Preservation Pittsburgh, May 13, 1992

“Art and Devotion at Home:  Women, Pictures, and Piety in the Renaissance,” Departmental Colloquium, March 3, 1992

"Art, History, and the Nationality Rooms," Women's International Club, University of Pittsburgh, June 5, 1991

"Questioning your Environment," Cum Laude Address, The Winchester-Thurston School, Pittsburgh, May 16, 1991

"Women in Renaissance Art," Ludwig A. Gaiser Distinguished Lecturer, at Whitman College, Walla Walla WA, October 9, 1990