Roberta J.M. Olson, who received her Ph.D. in Art History from Princeton University, is professor emerita of Art History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and curator of Drawings at the New-York Historical Society, where she has worked since 2000. Her recent publications include Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for "The Birds of America" (2012, awarded the Outstanding Permanent Collection Catalogue by the Association of Art Museum Curators, 2013; and the Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogs of Distinction in the Arts by New York State Historical Association, 2013); Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman (2015, awarded Frick Center for the History of Collecting Book Prize 2017, selected as one of the best exhibition catalogues of 2015 by the New York Times, and one of notable books of 2016 by The Magazine Antiques); and Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville (2019). Wendy N.E.
Ikemoto is associate curator of American Art at the New-York Historical Society. Kenneth T. Jackson is director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History at Columbia University, Marilyn S.Kushner is curator and head, Department of Prints, Photographs and Architectural Collections, New-York Historical Society. Valerie Paley is vice president, chief historian, and director of the Center for Women's History at the New-York Historical Society.