Peter Trippi

Peter Trippi is Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur, the bimonthly magazine that serves informed collectors of 18th, 19th, and 20th century painting and sculpture. Mr. Trippi was Director of the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York City from May 2003 until June, 2006, the only institution in the United States devoted to 19th and early 20th century European academic art.”

Before arriving at the Dahesh Museum, Mr. Trippi held positions at the Brooklyn Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Association of Art Museum Directors (where he wrote a history of that organization from 1916 to 1991), Cooper-Hewitt Museum, National Arts Education Research Center at New York University, and American Arts Alliance in Washington DC. He holds a MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London; a MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University; and a BA in History and Art History from the College of William and Mary, Virginia. His 250-page biography of the British painter J. W. Waterhouse R.A. (1849-1917) was published by Phaidon Press (London) in 2002, and has sold 30,000 copies. He contributed two chapters to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1997, organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and published by Abrams). In 2002, Mr. Trippi co-founded, with Professor Petra ten-Doesschate Chu (Seton Hall University) and Professor Gabriel P. Weisberg (University of Minnesota), the innovative, peer-reviewed journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (www.19thc-artworldwide.org), and he has served on the boards of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, Historians of British Art, and American Friends of the Attingham Summer School.

Mr. Trippi also operates his own firm, Projects in 19th-Century Art, organizing exhibitions, writing articles, essays, and catalogues, and lecturing widely; his most recent talks have occurred at Columbia University School of Continuing Education, College Art Association, Christie’s Education, and Royal Academy of Arts. In September 2006, he presented a paper on J. W. Waterhouse at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference at Purdue University, Indiana.