Laura M. Giles

Curator of Prints and Drawings


Laura Giles received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1986. Her scholarly field of interest is Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She has published many articles on Italian sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drawings, and co-authored Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (1997). Since 2000 she has organized a wide range of exhibitions of works on paper at the art museum, including Cézanne in Focus: Watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection (2002), Klinger to Kollwitz: German Art in the Age of Expressionism (2002), and Between Image and Concept: Recent Acquisitions in African American Art (2005). She is currently preparing an exhibition on Princeton’s Italian drawings, scheduled to open in 2011–12.

Julia Kean Fish, American, 1816 - 1887
Portrait Bust of a Woman with Flowing Hair
Charcoal and graphite heightened with white chalk on beige wove paper
47.1 x 30.5 cm. (18 9/16 x 12 in.)
Gift of Alvin E. Friedman Kien
x1994-18
photo: Bruce M. White