CD Dickerson
An expert of European art of the Renaissance and Baroque, C. D. Dickerson III serves as curator and head of the department of sculpture and decorative arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Prior to joining the curatorial staff of the Gallery in 2015, he spent eight years at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth as curator of European art. Among the exhibitions he curated there are From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern (2009-10); Bernini: Sculpting in Clay (2012-13); and The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France (2016-17). Dickerson received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.
Episode Appearances
08/15/2019
C.D. Dickerson, III, Curator, and Head of Sculpture Department at the National Gallery of Art, comments on issues around art ownership and repatriation – including art that was taken from Africa in the colonial era that now resides in museums all over the world.
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08/15/2019
C.D. Dickerson, III, Curator, and Head of Sculpture Department at the National Gallery of Art, comments on issues around art ownership and repatriation – including art that was taken from Africa in the colonial era that now resides in museums all over the world.
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