Kevin Sharp

Kevin Sharp is Director of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tenn. Prior to his appointment at the Dixon, he was a curator at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts in Mt. Vernon, Ill. (2003-2007); the Norton Museum of Art, in West Palm Beach, Fla.; (1998-2003); and the Art Institute of Chicago (1988-1998). He has organized or co-organized more than 50 exhibitions in his career, including major international retrospectives for Odilon Redon (1994), Mary Cassatt (1998), and Cecilia Beaux (2007), for which he also produced essays for the catalogues. He has written many articles and reviews, including essays for the books Whistler’s Mother: American Icon (2003) and Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene (2010). He is the sole author of A Wilder Image Bright: Hudson River School Paintings from the Manoogian Collection (2004), Harold Gregor’s Illinois (2005); Cedarhurst: The Museum and Its Collection (2008), and Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era (2009).