Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Ph.D., The George Putnam Curator of American Art

Jeffrey Richmond-Moll joined PEM in 2023 and now oversees an expansive collection that encompasses over four centuries of American art, culture and creative expression.

Most recently serving as curator of American art at the Georgia Museum of Art, on the campus of the University of Georgia, Richmond-Moll has a wide range of expertise in American art from the colonial era to the late 20th century. He pursues interdisciplinary, experimental curatorial strategies to tell compelling, inclusive stories about our nation’s past, present and future. His highly collaborative practice seeks to forge connections across media and time periods and unlock new ideas about American art and identity.

Richmond-Moll received his Ph.D. and M.A. in art history from the University of Delaware and a B.A. in art and archaeology from Princeton University. He is the former co-chair of the Association of Historians of American Art. He is the editor and lead author of Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery, and Imagination in American Realism (2021) and Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund (2022), and his essays have appeared in numerous journals and exhibition catalogues, including Winterthur Portfolio, Archives of American Art Journal and Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art.

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