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Personalia
Josua Bruyn, 1923-2011
Josua Bruyn, who passed away on June 10, 2011, is remembered above all as the co-founder, together with Jan van Gelder, Bob Haak, Pieter van Thiel and
Simon Levie, of the Rembrandt Research Project. Bruyn's participation in it is well remembered and impacted our perception of Rembrandt significantly
since the inception of the Project in 1968. He brought together a group of art historians to study ALL the paintings of Rembrandt. This was founded
upon his realization that verification of authorship on the basis of visual evidence could be achieved only if those who participated were familiar
with the same works of art and with all the data that was gathered from their investigation.
The first time I visited the Institute of Fine Arts at Utrecht University, the door was opened by a student who was a year older than me and whom I did
not know: Joos Bruyn. He went on to become Rector of Amsterdam University and a dominant scholar known for his ability to organize complex scholarly
undertakings as well as to initiate valuable projects in the museum world. Joos was undoubtedly a leader among the post-war generation of Dutch art
historians. He participated in so many aspects of the field that he was always visible: he was a university professor and one of the most active
members of many professional organizations, among them the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Prins Bernhard Fonds.
The field owes a great debt to Joos Bruyn and his contributions will long be remembered.
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Donna Barnes is Professor Emerita at Hofstra University.
Marisa Bass , formerly of Harvard University, is Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University.
Ivan Gaskell , Margaret S. Winthrop Curator, Harvard University Art Museums, has been appointed Professor of Cultural History at the Bard Graduate
Center in New York as of January 2012.
Ann Sutherland Harris (University of Pittsburgh) is among thirty women whose contribution to art history was recognized by ArtTable, a national organization for professional
women in the visual arts.
Anne D. Hedeman , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has received a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in medieval history.
Amy Powell (UC Irvine) has received an ACLS Fellowship for 2011. She will be researching a paper on "The Whitewashed Image: Iconoclasm and Seventeenth-Century
Dutch Landscape." She also was named Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow for 2011-12 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of
Art, Washington.
Anke van Wagenberg has been appointed Curator at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, as of October 1, 2011.
Lisa Vergara is Professor Emerita of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Edward Wouk has been appointed Chester Dale Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Prints & Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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