The hard-hit Indianapolis Museum of Art lost another curator: Rebecca Long, currently Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1800 at IMA, is moving to the Art Institute of Chicago. There, she will be the Associate Curator in the Department of Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture, responsible for Italian and Spanish painting and sculpture before 1750.
Long will join AIC on Feb. 27, 2015.
After IMA’s other losses, this is a blow. There, she “spearheaded work on the forthcoming catalogue of the museum’s Clowes Collection, offering the first scholarly and technical analysis of that important collection of masterworks of the Italian, Spanish, Netherlandish and German schools.”
Long’s background, per the AIC:
A native of Pennsylvania, Long has held research fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence, where she conducted research on 16th century Italian paintings in the IMA collection. Additional research she’s done has illuminated the work of itinerant artists, patronage in Italy and Spain as well as international markets for art of the early modern period. She has a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, with concentrations in art history and business administration, and a master’s degree from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. Her dissertation focuses on the role of Italian art and artists at the Spanish court in the early 17th century.
IMA hired Long in 2008.