David Hersh Solkin, FBA (born Montreal, 16 March 1951) is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Ins*ute, which he joined in 1986. In 2007, Solkin became the Ins*ute's first Dean and Deputy Director. Solkin is an expert in the art of J. M. W. Turner.

He was educated at Harvard College (AB), The Courtauld Ins*ute of Art (MA) and Yale University (PhD, 1978).

In 2002, Solkin was awarded the William M. B. Berger Prize for the exhibition and catalogue Art on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836 (The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2001–2).

Selected publications

• Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction, London: Tate Gallery, 1982.
• Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993.
• Painting out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008.
• Turner and the Masters, Tate, London, 2009. Ed. and co-author.
• "Conquest, usurpation, wealth, luxury, famine: Mortimer's Banditti and the Anxieties of Empire", in Art and the British Empire, Timothy Barringer, Geoffrey Quilley and Douglas Fordham eds., Manchester University Press, Manchester 2006, 120–38.
• "Joseph Wright of Derby and the Sublime Art of Labor" in Representations 83 (Summer 2003), pp.:167–94 .

References

External links

• Video: David Solkin discusses "J.M.W. Turner and the Love of Art".