Adam Eaker is an American art historian and curator currently serving as an Associate Curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[1][2] He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2016, with a specialization in British painting, and particularly the work of Anthony van Dyck produced in England.[3] He is considered an authority on the work of the painter.[4] He was supervised for his dissertation by David Freedberg.
Adam Eaker | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 39–40) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University, Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | curator, art historian |
Eaker is an adjunct associate lecturer of art history at Barnard College.[5] His curatorial work has significantly impacted the presentation and understanding of Northern European, and specifically English art, in North America.[6][7]
Career
editEarlier in his career, Eaker was a fellow at the Rubenianum Research Institute for Flemish Art in Antwerp.[8] While at the Frick he curated an exhibition organized around the six paintings by Van Dyck in the museum's collection. [9]
Eaker joined The Metropolitan Museum after serving as an Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow and guest curator at the Frick Collection.[10] Since starting at The Metropolitan Museum, he has continued to focus on the study and presentation of European painting through research, exhibition planning, and managing the Dutch and Flemish art during gallery renovations, enhancing the museum's collection.[11]
The Metropolitan Museum has acquired several notable artworks guided by Eaker's curatorial work, including a painting by Francesco Renaldi of an eighteenth-century Mughal woman that was previously in a private collection.[12] The work was acquired from Sotheby's of London.[13]
In addition to his curatorial work, Eaker has contributed to various art history anthologies and exhibition catalogs, offering new insights into the interpretation of seventeenth-century Flemish and English paintings.[14] His lectures and presentations at academic conferences, have also played a key role in advancing the scholarly discourse surrounding Northern European painting.[15][16]
Since July 2023, Eaker has been affiliated with the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art as the seventeenth-century Flemish area editor for the journal's reviews section.[17]
Books
editExhibitions
editEaker has organized and curated several notable exhibitions, also authoring their publications, including:
- Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture (2016)
- In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at the Met
- The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England (2022-2023)[23]
References
edit- ^ "Brandon George & Adam Eaker's Wedding". The New York Times. November 5, 2021. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ Adam Eaker (November 20, 2019). Building a Flemish Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Frick Collection. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ "PhD in Art History and Archaeology Alumnae". Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ Sotheby's (August 10, 2022). "Upcoming Release: Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture". Sotheby's. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ "Barnard Courses: Welcome to Class With Professor Adam Eaker". Barnard College. May 28, 2024. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (March 10, 2016). "Van Dyck at the Frick: Documenting Aristocracy". The New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Ben Luke; Produced by David Clack, Aimee Dawson and Henrietta Bentall (7 October 2022). "Van Dyck: Old Masters, Mitchell and Monet at Paris's Fondation Louis Vuitton; Tudors at the Met Museum in New York". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ Adam Eaker (August 31, 2021). "Frick Perspectives: Lessons from the Dutch "Golden Age"". The Frick Collection (YouTube). Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Anne-Marie Logan (December 2021). "America and the Art of Flanders. Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Their Circles (The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America, 5)". Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews. Historians of Netherlandish Art. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ "Adam Eaker". CODART. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ "Curator in the Spotlight: Adam Eaker". CODART. October 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Akanksha Kamath (December 4, 2023). "What's so special about Francesco Renaldi's 18th century Mughal painting". Architectural Digest India. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ "Portrait of a Mughal Lady Seated in an Interior". Sotheby's. 2023. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ James Barron (October 21, 2022). "In the Lives of the Tudors, Hints of the Present-Day Monarchy". The New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ "Adam Eaker: New Approaches to British Portraiture at the Met". Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ Eaker, Adam (November 20, 2019). "The American Van Dyck". Frick Collection. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ "Adam Eaker is Appointed HNAR Editor". Historians of Netherlandish Art. July 4, 2023. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Eaker, Adam; Alsteens, Stijn, eds. (2016). Van Dyck. New York: Frick Collection. ISBN 9780300212051.
- ^ Erin Griffey (October 2023). "Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)". Historians of Netherlandish Art. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Eaker, Adam (2022). Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture. London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. ISBN 9781913107345.
- ^ Christopher Baker (26 September 2022). "How Van Dyck made his mark on English portraiture". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ Eaker, Adam (2024). Van Dyck. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. ISBN 9781606069462.
- ^ Laird Borrelli-Persson (October 18, 2022). "Renaissance Rules: The Unexpected Connection Between 'The Tudors' and the 2022 Runways". Vogue. Retrieved August 9, 2024.