The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 44 (2009)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 44

"Joseph Wright's Pastel Portrait of a Woman, Part III: Technique and Aesthetics": The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 44 (2009)

Shelley, Marjorie
2009
10 pages
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Marjorie Shelley

Marjorie Shelley (MA art history, Institute of Fine Arts; Certificate, degree, Conservation Center, NYU), oversees the conservation of drawings and prints from seventeen curatorial departments. A specialist in fifteenth through early twentieth century drawings and pastels, she frequently lectures and has written numerous publications on drawing materials and artists’ practices; among them, Rembrandt, Fragonard, Wright of Darby, Audubon, Delacroix, Degas, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Sargent. She is editor and chief author of The Met’s preservation manual, The Care and Handling of Art Objects; instituted an annual technical art history symposium on works on paper, and established a collection of historic artists’ materials.

Selected publications

MetPublications: Selected publications by Marjorie Shelley

The Care and Handling of Art Objects: Practices in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2019 revised edition). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019.

“Delacroix drawings: Line and Color.” In A Devotion to Drawing, the Karen B. Cohen collection, edited by Ashely E. Dunn, 137–150. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.

Portrait of a woman, her head turned to the right, wearing an earring, Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)  British, Pastel on blue laid paper
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)
1770–72