John Wilmerding is Emeritus Professor of American Art at Princeton University and adjunct curator in the Princeton University Art Museum. He is also an advisor to the planned Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, AR., and holds a presidential appointment to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, a trustee of the Guggenheim Museum, and a commissioner of the National Portrait Gallery. Formerly, he was a visiting curator in the Department of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum, and has also served as Senior Curator and Deputy Director of the National Gallery. A noted scholar of American art and cultural studies, he is the author of monographs on Fitz Henry Lane, John F. Peto, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Eakins. Most recently, he has written on Richard Estes (Rizzoli, 2006) and Robert Indiana (Rizzoli, 2006). His monograph on Tom Wesselmann is forthcoming in 2008.