Alexandra Letvin

Alexandra Letvin is the inaugural Duane Wilder, Class of 1951, Associate Curator of European Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, where she guides the program in European painting and sculpture from the medieval period to 1945. A specialist in the art of early modern Spain, Letvin’s projects at the Museum range widely and include the installation of the European galleries (2025) and an upcoming exhibition on Édouard Manet’s Woman with a Cigarette (2026). Her collaborative research with the Museum’s conservation team has resulted in co-authored publications, including From Palma to Princeton: The Journey of the Mallorcan Stairway (Princeton University Press, 2025) with Elena Torok and “Discovering the Sacred in Giovanni Battista Moroni’s Portrait of a Donor” in the Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University (2025) with Bart Devolder. 

Before coming to Princeton, Letvin was the assistant curator of European and American art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College (2019–22), the Andrew W. Mellon and Maude de Schauensee Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2017–19), the Samuel H. Kress Meadows/Prado Curatorial Fellow at the Meadows Museum and Museo Nacional del Prado (2013–15), and the Carlson-Cowart Fellow at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2011–12).  

Letvin received her BA from Williams College and her MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins University. Her research and curatorial work have been supported by a number of grants, including a Fulbright Research Grant to Spain affiliated with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish National Research Council), a Gerda Henkel Stiftung PhD Scholarship, and a Tyson Scholarship from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In 2023, she was named a Museums Next Generation Fellow by the Villa Albertine in partnership with the Institut National du Patrimoine and the Center for Curatorial Leadership.