Peter Trippi

Peter Trippi is Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur (www.fineartconnoisseur.com), the bimonthly magazine that serves collectors of figurative painting, sculpture, drawings, and prints dated 1800 through today. He is responsible for each issue's development and implementation, as well as management of contributing editors and writers. Trippi holds a MA from New York University in Visual Arts Administration, as well as a MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. His 250-page...See more

Peter Trippi is Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur (www.fineartconnoisseur.com), the bimonthly magazine that serves collectors of figurative painting, sculpture, drawings, and prints dated 1800 through today. He is responsible for each issue's development and implementation, as well as management of contributing editors and writers. Trippi holds a MA from New York University in Visual Arts Administration, as well as a MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. His 250-page biography of the painter J. W. Waterhouse (1849-1917) was published in 2002 by Phaidon Press (London) and has sold 36,000 copies worldwide, including French and Japanese language editions. In addition to his work on Fine Art Connoisseur, Trippi operates his own firm, Projects in 19th-Century Art, through which he curates exhibitions, writes articles, essays, and catalogues, juries shows, and presents lectures. His most recent talks have been given at Columbia University School of Continuing Education, College Art Association, Christie's Education, St. Andrews University, and the Boston International Fine Art Fair. In September 2006 he presented a paper on J. W. Waterhouse at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference, held at Purdue University, Indiana. In February 2008, he will co-chair with Martina Droth (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds) a session at the College Art Association's annual conference in Dallas on British art critics c. 1900. He is currently co-organizing a J. W. Waterhouse retrospective for presentation in 2008-2010 at the Groninger Museum (Netherlands), Royal Academy of Arts (London), and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada). Before arriving at Fine Art Connoisseur, Trippi was Director of the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York City for three years and also held positions at the Brooklyn Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Association of Art Museum Directors (where he wrote a history of that organization from 1916 to 1991), Cooper-Hewitt Museum, National Arts Education Research Center at New York University, and American Arts Alliance in Washington DC. Trippi contributed two chapters to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1997, organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and published by Abrams). In 2002, he co-founded the innovative, peer-reviewed journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (www.19thc-artworldwide.org). He has served on the boards of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, Historians of British Art, and American Friends of the Attingham Summer School. See less