Paul Crenshaw
		Ph.D., New York University, 2000 Assistant Professor of Art History
	Professor Crenshaw’s main field of research and teaching is Dutch art of the 17th century. He also teaches the Introduction to Western Art, Baroque art in general, Northern Renaissance art, and seminars that focus on artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Artemisia Gentileschi. He teaches a variety of methodological approaches, and incorporates primary objects into his courses whenever possible. His Vermeer seminar visited New York for a major exhibition in 2001, and the Gentileschi seminar was organized to coincide with a show at the St. Louis Art Museum. Professor Crenshaw completed his PhD, “Rembrandt’s Bankruptcy,” at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 2000. He gave a paper on the same subject at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum of Art in Boston in the fall of 2000 at the conference Rethinking Rembrandt. The proceedings from this conference will be published in the year 2002. Another article, “Rembrandt’s Disputes with His Patrons” appeared in the interdisciplinary journal Dutch Crossings in 2002. He co-authored the catalogue to the exhibition Rembrandt, Beyond the Brush. Master Prints from the Weil Collection at the Montgomery (Ala.) Museum of Fine Arts in 1999. In addition to the publication of his study of Rembrandt’s bankruptcy, Professor Crenshaw is writing a book entitled Rembrandt’s Calumny, about the artist’s paintings for the Sicilian patron Don Antonio Ruffo. Professor Crenshaw will also give a paper at the 2003 CAA conference about Artemisia Gentileschi’s relationship to the same patron. Before arriving at Washington University Professor Crenshaw worked as a photoarchivist at the Frick Art Reference Library, research associate for the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), an education lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he taught at the University of Washington and the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Professor Crenshaw may be contacted at crenshaw@wustl.edu.