Credit Where Credit is Due
Dr. Paul Crenshaw, Providence College
Dr. Timothy Standring, Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture, Denver Art Museum
Dr. Timothy Standring, Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture, Denver Art Museum
- Professor Paul Crenshaw, M.A./Ph.D. – Dr. Crenshaw received his M.A./Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and is the Assistant Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island. Judge Clarkson has repeatedly asserted that Professor Crenshaw is the world's leading expert on the history of the 1656 bankruptcy of Rembrandt van Rijn. As his Providence College CV sets out, “[i]n particular he studies aspects of the life and work of Rembrandt van Rijn, including biographical material, economic and market studies, iconology, and material process in painting, printmaking and drawing. His broader interests include themes of unusual and esoteric subject matter in early modern European art, the history of prints and drawings, early modern theories of art and the artist’s place in society.” His book, Rembrandt’s Bankruptcy: The Artist, his Patrons, and the Art Market in Seventeenth-Century Netherlands (Cambridge University Press, February 20, 2006) is a magnificent study and deserves to be reprinted.
Dr. Timothy Standring, Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture, Denver Art Museum
Dr. Timothy Standring, Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture, Denver Art Museum
Dr. Timothy Standring, Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture, Denver Art Museum
- Dr. Timothy J. Standring, M.A./Ph.D – A University of Chicago graduate, Dr. Standring recently retired as the Gates Family Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Denver Art Museum. He has been a Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, a Guest Scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art. He produced the Denver Art Museum’s record-breaking 2011 van Gogh exhibit, guided its Degas extravaganza in 2017, and in 2018-2019 organized the groundbreaking exhibit on Rembrandt’s skills as a printmaker. Equally important, Dr. Standring is an artist himself, described in The Denver Post as “possessing unique ways of seeing and deft skills for knowing how and when to apply color to paper. His landscapes are lush, though they refrain from being overly romantic, and they are — and this is probably not surprising to the many people in Denver who know Standring or have seen his exhaustive exhibitions — very confident.” See his work here - https://www.standringwatercolors.com/
And others --
Other special thanks to Dr. Jaco Rutgers, https://independent.academia.edu/JacoRutgers and Dr. Erik Hinterding, Curator of Prints, Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands https://www.codart.nl/guide/curators/dr-erik-hinterding/
Also adding significantly to the research on Rembrandt's insolvency is Machiel Bosman, author of "Rembrandts plan" (in Dutch) found here: https://www.amazon.com/Rembrandts-plan-Dutch-Machiel-Bosman-ebook/dp/B07YNW5NN7
Additional Resources
Archives, Museums, Documentary and a Magnificent Website of 773 works by Rembrandt
Amsterdam City Archives opens exhibition on private life Rembrandt - https://www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief/agenda/rembrandt-prive/
Rembrandthuis Museum - https://www.rembrandthuis.nl/?lang=en
Rijksmuseum - https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en
Research about Rembrandt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_about_Rembrandt
Rembrandt House Documentary (YouTube, 7:48) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmcR4Iqzuio
WikiArt Visual Art Encyclopedia - 773 of Rembrandt's Works, by dates - https://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry
New York Times Article - "Rembrandt Died 350 Years Ago - Why He Matters Today
Self-portrait, drawing at a window
Rembrandt, 1648, location: Stadel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany