Annette Blaugrund has published and lectured widely on diverse subjects in American art and culture. She was formerly the director of the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts (1997-2007). A former curator, she has worked at the Brooklyn Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the New-York Historical Society where she wrote six books about American art, and contributed seven chapters and 29 articles to other books. For her accomplishments she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy in 2008, and was named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 1992. Dr. Blaugrund currently sits on several boards, juries exhibitions, writes essays for museum and university catalogues, and consults with museums, clubs and foundations across the country. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University (1987) where for six years she taught American art and culture (1996-2001). Currently she sits on the Advisory Council of the Art History department and is heading a graduate art history mentoring class. She has devoted three years to researching and writing the fascinating story of Harriet Hubbard Ayer whom she discovered in a painting by William Merritt Chase.
