How does a museum build its collection? This conversation between Dr. Emily Friedman, Allen and Kelly Questrom Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Dr. Jonathan Bober, and Carolyn Bullard, will explore the state of the field of early modern prints and drawings, focusing on collecting and exhibition practices. As the Dallas Museum of Art’s inaugural curator of Prints and Drawing, Dr. Friedman will offer insights into the history of the works on paper collection at the Dallas Museum of Art and plans for future exhibitions.
The panel will be moderated by Dr. Anabelle Gambert-Jouan, Lillian and James H. Clark Assistant Curator of European Art.
Made possible through the Dallas Print and Drawing Society Fund, in Memory of Calvin Holmes.
Speakers:
Carolyn Bullard is a print scholar and was a well-regarded print dealer for nearly four decades. Along with her long-time business partner, Susan Schulman, Bullard supports the advancement of the field through the Association of Print Scholars Schulman and Bullard Article Prize, which is awarded to an article published by an early-career scholar that features compelling and innovative research on prints or printmaking. She previously served as the Art Gallery Director at Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles, CA, and the Director of the Old Master Print Department at Hom Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Jonathan Bober served as curator and head of old master prints at the National Gallery of Art from 2011-2016, where he led the acquisition of nearly 5,500 prints and drawings by purchase, gift, and promised gift, most notably 18th-century Venetian and 19th-century Italian, making the Gallery’s holdings the most significant in the US. During his tenure in this position, Bober organized ten National Gallery exhibitions, including The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (2012), Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection (2013), and From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800–1925 (2014). Bober came to the National Gallery in 2011 from the Blanton Museum at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as a curator since 1987, first as curator of prints and drawings; from 1998 as curator of prints, drawings, and European painting; and from 2010 as senior curator of European art.
Dr. Emily Friedman is The Allen and Kelli Questrom Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings. Prior to joining the DMA in 2024, Friedman held positions at several institutions, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A specialist in the history of the graphic arts, Friedman holds a PhD in History of Art from The Johns Hopkins University and a BA in History of Art from McGill University.
Dr. Anabelle Gambert-Jouan is The Lillian and James H. Clark Assistant Curator of European Art. Gambert-Jouan, who joined the DMA in 2023, is a specialist of medieval art. Prior to the DMA, she held positions at several institutions, including the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gambert-Jouan holds a PhD and an MPhil in History of Art from Yale University, an MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture from the University of Oxford, and a BA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Image credit: A.M. Zanetti after Parmigianino, The Apostle Saint James, 1722. Chiaroscuro woodcut. Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts, The Alfred and Juanita Bromberg Collection, bequest of Juanita K. Bromberg. 2000.111.FA