Norman Muller

Conservator


Norman Muller worked at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Worcester Art Museum before arriving at the Princeton University Art Museum in 1981. Besides his specialty in painting conservation, he has published numerous articles on Italian fourteenth century Sienese, Italian, and Northern Renaissance, and nineteenth century American painting techniques. In 2000 he was invited by Thomas F. Mathews, professor emeritus of Byzantine art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, to join him in a study of ancient Roman votive paintings from Egypt. A corpus devoted to this material will be published by Dumbarton Oaks. In addition to his scholarly activities, Norman lectures in the Department of Art and Archaeology on painting and drawing techniques.

Albert Pinkham Ryder, American, 1847 - 1917
The Story of the Cross
ca. 1890
Oil on canvas
36.0 x 29.0 cm. (14 3/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Gift of Alastair B. Martin, Class of 1938
2004-392
photo: Bruce M. White