Elizabeth Barker, PhD

Publications

Foreword. Dawn R. Brean, Michelle Facos, Patricia G. Berman, Charlotte Ashby, Kjetil Fallan, Jan Kokkin, Thor J. Mednick, Tonje Haugland Sørensen, and Sabine Wieber. The Scandinavian Home: Art and Identity, 1880–1920. Giles Ltd. in association with the Frick Pittsburgh, London, 2025, p.6.

Foreword. Kimberly Cady, Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, Samuel W. Black, Ron Baraff, Joe William Trotter Jr., Mark Whitaker, Jonnet Solomon, and Laurence A. Glasco, Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile. The History Press in association with the Frick Pittsburgh, 2023, pp.7-8.

Foreword. David B. Dearinger. Thomas Buford Meteyard (1865-1928): Travels through Impressionism. Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 2017, p.5.

Foreword. Scott B. Guthery, Practical Purposes: Readers in Experimental Philosophy at the Boston Athenæum (1827-1850). Docent Press, Boston, 2016, pp.xv-xvi.

Foreword and Acknowledgements. David B. Dearinger and Donna J. Hassler. Daniel Chester French: The Female Form Revealed. Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 2016, pp.5-6.

Foreword. Charles K. Bolton, The Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad who came to the Colonies in North America before the Year 1701. 3 vols. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016 (reprint of 1919).

“Human Forms Divine: William Blake’s The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter.” Interfaces: Images Texte Langage 35 (May 2014), 7-33.

Acknowledgments. Marylin M. Rhie with Robert A. F. Thurman, Maria R. Heim, Paola Zamperini, Camille Myers Breeze. Picturing Enlightenment: Tibetan Tangkas in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. University Press of New England for the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 2013, pp.10-11.

Foreword. Samuel C. Morse with John W. Dower, Trent E. Maxey, Timothy J. Van Campernolle and Yamashita Yūji. Reinventing Tokyo: Japan’s Largest City in the Artistic Imagination. University Press of New England for the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 2012, p.7.

“A Brief History of the Art Collection at Amherst College” (introduction), ten catalogue entries, editor. Mead Art Museum at Amherst College: Collection Guide. Amherst College Press, Amherst, Mass., 2011.

“Joseph Wright’s Pastel Portrait of a Woman Part I: A Survey of the Drawings of Joseph Wright,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 44 (2009), pp. 91-99.

“Joseph Wright of Derby’s Moonlight Landscape in Cologne,” Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, Bd LXX (2009), pp.175-194.

“Documents related to Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’ (1734-1797)” (main article). Journal of the Walpole Society, 2009, pp.1-216.

“Wright of Derby and Industry” (short essay). The History of British Taste, Volume 2: 1600 to 1870. Edited by David Bindman. Tate Publishing for Tate Britain and the Yale Center for British Art, 2008, pp.182-183.

“Swallowing up all the business: Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’ in Liverpool” (main essay), sixty catalogue entries. Joseph Wright of Derby and the ‘Dawn of Taste’ in Liverpool. Exh. cat. Yale University Press for the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2007.

“the excitement of gambling, without its guilt and its ruin: Palmer and Printmaking” (lead essay), three short essays, fifty-nine catalogue entries. Samuel Palmer: Vision and Landscape. Exh. cat. British Museum Press for the British Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005.

With William Vaughan. “Mysterious Wisdom won by Toil”: New Light on Samuel Palmer’s Lonely Tower”. Burlington Magazine (September 2005), pp.590-597.

Three catalogue entries. The Wrightsman Collection. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 2005, pp.230-233, 376-386.

“a truly learned weaving of light and dark: The Prints of Childe Hassam” (essay). Childe Hassam, American Impressionist. H. Barbara Weinberg, et. al. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004. pp.187-204.

Four essays: “John Constable (1776–1837)” (October 2004), “Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)” (October 2004), “Watercolor Painting in Britain, 1750–1850” (October 2004), “The Printed Image in the West: Mezzotint” (October 2003), Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, online resource launched in 2000.

“George Romney’s Early Candlelight Paintings.” Transactions of the Romney Society 5 (2000), pp.28-37.

Thirty catalogue entries, checklist. William Blake. Robin Hamlyn, et al. Exh. cat. Tate, London, 2000.

Ten catalogue entries. Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Karen B. Cohen. Colta Ives with Elizabeth E. Barker. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pp. xi, 24-39, 100-105.

“New Light on the Orrery: Joseph Wright and the Representation of Astronomy in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” British Art Journal 1/2 (Spring 2000), pp.29-37.

Chronology, three catalogue entries, bibliography. The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle. George R. Goldner, et al. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, pp. 3-8, 118-119, 327, 383-398.