Biography

Rebecca J. Long is Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1800 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Before joining the IMA, Long was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She serves as an adjunct professor at the Herron School of Art (IUPUI) and adjunct associate professor at the Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville. Long holds a master’s degree from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, where she is currently completing her PhD on the subject of Florentine painters at the courts of Philip II and Philip III of Spain.

Project Summary

This project involves research on 16th century Italian paintings in the Clowes Collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Formed by G.H.A. and Edith Clowes in the first half of the 20th century, the Clowes Collection forms the nucleus of the museum’s collection of European art before 1800. The ensuing publication will be the first comprehensive scholarly catalogue of the collection.