Karl Kusserow

Assistant Curator of Later Western Art


Karl Kusserow is responsible for American art. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2006. He recently organized the exhibition '57 Collects: A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration and is now completing, as editor and primary author, Picturing Power: Portraiture and the New York Chamber of Commerce (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2009). His current project is Inner Sanctum: Memory and Meaning in Princeton’s Faculty Room at Nassau Hall (2010), an exhibition and related publication, symposium, and seminar similarly focusing on the changing uses of portraiture in institutional representations.

John Frederick Kensett, American, 1816 - 1872
Lake George
ca. 1870
Oil on academy board
36.2 x 61.9 cm. (14 1/4 x 24 3/8 in.)
frame: 65.7 x 91.5 cm. (25 7/8 x 36 in.)
Bequest of Elaine King in memory of her husband, Col. Herbert G. King, Class of 1922
y1994-151
photo: Bruce M. White