Alan Wallach
Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History Emeritus and Professor of American Studies Emeritus, Professorial Lecturer in Art History, George Washington University
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Alan Wallach is the author of Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States (1998), co-curator and principal catalog essayist for Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (1994), co-editor of Transatlantic Romanticism (2015), and author of Trouble in Paradise: Twenty-four Essays on the Social History of American Art (2024 hardcover and eBook, 2025 paperback). He taught at Kean College of New Jersey (1974-1989) and was the Ralph Wark Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies at the College of William and Mary (1989-2011). He has served as a visiting professor at UCLA, Stanford, the City University of New York Graduate Center, the University of Michigan, the University of Delaware, the Williams Graduate Program in Art History, Boston University, and the Free University of Berlin. He is currently a Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University and a member of the New York Botanical Gardens’ advisory committee for its upcoming exhibition, “Before New York: Nature and the City.” In 2007 he was the recipient of the College Art Association’s award for the Distinguished Teaching of Art History.
