David Galenson

David W. Galenson(born in 1951) is a professor in the Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin, the Ecole des Hautes Etude en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the American University of Paris.

He studied at Harvard University, completing his PhD in 1979.

He has become famous through his study of artistic innovation, finding statistical proof that some artists develop their skills early in life(Experimentalists) and some are late bloomers (Conceptualists). He has analised data from auction houses regarding the value of an artist's works associated with the age he has produced them. He has also investigated the nature of innovation in poetry and economics.

He has written two books about this:

• Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art, published by Harvard University Press, in 2001 .
• Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity, published by Princeton University Press, in 2006.

External Links

• David Galenson's homepage
• Article about him in Wired
• faculty page at University of Chicago's Department of Economics
• University of Chicago Experts Guide