"Joseph Wright's Pastel Portrait of a Woman, Part II: Sources, Meaning, and Context": The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 44 (2009)

Constance C. McPhee is responsible for British drawings, and British and American prints and illustrated books before 1900. After joining the department in 2000, she organized the New York venue of Samuel Palmer (1805–1881): Vision and Landscape (2005) and co-curated Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine (2011), The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy: British Art and Design (2014), and William Morris: Textiles and Wallpapers (2014). Recently she has explored Shakespeare-related works in the collection, is cataloguing an important body of Thomas Rowlandson material, and is building the Museum's British drawings holdings towards an exhibition. Constance received her BA from Princeton University and her MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.