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William C. Agee is the Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor Emeritus of Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York. He was formerly Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Pasadena Art Museum, and in 2011 a Fellow at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Among his many publications are works on Synchromism, painting and sculpture of the 1930s, Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Donald Judd and Morton Livingston Schamberg. His most recent book is Modern Art in America, 1908-68 (Phaidon, 2016). John Crawford is the son of Ralston Crawford. After studying sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design, he moved to Italy and was apprenticed for 10 years to Tuscan blacksmiths. Since returning to New York City, he has made sculpture using large- and small-scale industrial forging and machining techniques. His work has been exhibited at numerous venues in New York and other states. His research on his father's art focuses primarily on photographs as a means through which to study Crawford's paintings, drawings and lithographs. Rick Kinsel is President of the Vilcek Foundation, where he oversees the management of the Vilcek Foundation art collections and the implementation of the Vilcek Prizes. He previously worked as the Cataloguer in charge of acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and as Director of Cultural Affairs at Coty, Inc. He has advised on collections and curated exhibitions for a variety of public and private organizations, and in 2013 he received a MAD Visionaries! Award from the Museum of Arts and Design in New York for his work in the arts. Emily Schuchardt Navratil is Curator at the Vilcek Foundation. She has worked with the Vilcek Collection since 2009, serving previously as Associate Curator, Assistant Curator and Curatorial Assistant. Dr Navratil earned a PhD in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a Master's degree from Hunter College, CUNY. She has worked for several major institutions, notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Montclair Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has contributed to numerous catalogues and exhibitions, including Cézanne and American Modernism (2009), Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2010) and American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, De Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942 (2012).

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