About the Author

Melissa Wolfe serves the Saint Louis Art Museum as curator and head of the Department of American Art. She oversaw an extensive reinterpretation of the museum's American art galleries that opened in 2016. Other notable accomplishments include the significant acquisitions of works by John Singer Sargent, Elizabeth Catlett, and Horace Pippin. Wolfe received a master's degree and doctorate in the history of art at The Ohio State University.

Amy Torbert is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator of American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Torbert received a doctorate in art history from the University of Delaware and a master's degree in the history of art from Williams College. She has held curatorial fellowships at the Yale University Art Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Harvard Art Museum.

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