Richard W. Wallace

Richard W. Wallace is Professor of Art at Wellesley College, where he joined the faculty in 1964. A specialist in Baroque painting, Professor Wallace spent his 1976-77 sabbatical year studying Italian graphic art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Mr. Wallace received the B.A. degree from Williams College in 1955 and both the M.F.A. (1961) and the Ph.D. (1965) from Princeton University. Before coming to Wellesley he spent a year as an instructor at Princeton, followed by two years in Italy as a holder of a Fulbright Scholarship. At Wellesley, Professor Wallace teaches courses on sixteenth and seventeenth century painting and sculpture in Southern Europe and in graphic art, and received the Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 1987.

Active as an Art Historian, Mr. Wallace selected etchings and contributed to the catalogue for The Etchings of Salvator Rosa, an exhibition sponsored by the Arts Council of Great Britain in London in 1973. He then organized an exhibition with catalogue at Wellesley College in 1980: Salvator Rosa in America at the Jewett Arts Center.

Mr. Wallace is the author of The Etchings of Salvator Rosa, published in 1979 by the Princeton University Press. He has published articles in The Art Bulletin, The Burlington Magazine, Apollo, The Journal of The Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, and The Gazette des Beaux-Arts.

Professor Wallace has been the recipient of three Wellesley College grants: the Huber Award, the Shell Assist, and a general research award. In 1971, he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, which he used to travel to Italy to work on his Salvator Rosa manuscript. In 1968, he won a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

In 1987 and 1988 he won two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Emiliani Paper Company of Fabriano, Italy and the J. Paul Getty Foundation to prepare an exhibition with catalogue: Italian Etchings of the Renaissance and Baroque for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1989.

At Wellesley Professor Wallace has served on the Foreign Studies Committee, and has been a member of the Committee on Graduate Instruction, and the Faculty Awards Committee. He is also a frequent speaker to Alumnae groups and to the Wellesley Friends of Art. Mr. Wallace is the founder and President of the Eastham (Cape Cod) Conservation Foundation, a non-profit corporation for land conservation and management.

He and his wife, Kate, live with their two children in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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