Karl Kusserow
Curator of American Art
Karl Kusserow specializes in American art before 1945. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he received his Ph.D. from Yale. He recently completed Inner Sanctum: Memory and Meaning in Princeton's Faculty Room at Nassau Hall (2010) and Picturing Power: The New York Chamber of Commerce, Portraiture and its Uses (2012), as well as an edited volume of essays on early American art at Princeton (Princeton University Art Museum Record 70 (2011)). Upcoming exhibition and publication projects focus on American collecting of avant-garde European art, ecocriticism and American art, and the various versions of Charles Willson Peale’s George Washington at the Battle of Princeton.
Rubens Peale, American, 1784–1865
Still Life with Watermelon, 1865
Oil on canvas
48.3 x 69.9 cm. (19 x 27 1/2 in.)
Gift in honor of Professor John Wilmerding from his friends and former students and the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art (2007-20 )
Photo: Bruce M. White
