President Richard C. Levin has appointed a committee to advise him in the search for a new director of the Yale Center for British Art.
Patrick McCaughey, who stepped down as director in June, continues to pursue his scholarly interests as senior research fellow of the center. In a letter to the British Art Center community last spring, Levin said: "In his five years as director, Patrick expanded the programs of the center, spearheaded the most substantial renovation of the facility in its history, oversaw the elegant reinstallation of the collection and opened the center in unprecedented ways to share its resources with those in New Haven and beyond."
Linda Peterson, professor of English, is chairing the search committee. Its other members are: Timothy Barringer, assistant professor of the history of art; Richard Benson, dean and professor of photography at the School of Art; Constance Clement, deputy director of the British Art Center, who is serving as the center's acting director during the search; Edward Cooke Jr., the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts and director of the Center for the study of American Art and Material Culture, and chair of the Department of the History of Art; Diana Kleiner, deputy provost for the arts and the Dunham Professor of Classics and the History of Art; Jules Prown, the Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Art; Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery and adjunct professor of the history of art; Malcolm Warner, curator of
Members of the Yale community are invited to contact members of the search committee with their views about characteristics the new British Art Center director should have, as well as with nominations of specific candidates.
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