The New Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries

Susan Alyson Stein joined the department in 1981 after a yearlong Mellon Fellowship at the Guggenheim. At The Met, she has curated/co-curated over twenty exhibitions, from Cézanne Watercolors (1988) to Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity (2013), Seurat's Circus Sideshow (2017), and Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence (2018), while contributing to over fifty Museum publications devoted to artists ranging from Goya to Picasso. Her long-standing work on Van Gogh includes Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings (2005), and within the last decade, Van Gogh: Irises and Roses (2015), and Van Gogh’s Cypresses (2023).