Allen Staley is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Columbia University, where he taught for more than
thirty years. Prior to Columbia he worked at the Frick Collection in New York and as an assistant curator
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His engagement with Benjamin West began in Phila...
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Allen Staley is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Columbia University, where he taught for more than
thirty years. Prior to Columbia he worked at the Frick Collection in New York and as an assistant curator
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His engagement with Benjamin West began in Philadelphia with an
article about an oil sketch by West, published in the museum's bulletin in 1965. In 1975 he took on the task of
completing the monumental catalogue of West's paintings begun by the late Helmut von Erff a, which led him
to think about the artist's infl uence upon the work of his compatriot and exact contemporary Copley. The
book, after a decade's labor, saw publication in 1986. His other signifi cant books are The Pre-Raphaelite
Landscape, published in 1973 with a second edition in 2001, and The New Painting of the 1860s: Between
the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement, published in 2011, both products of long-standing love
and study of English Victorian painting. In addition to writing countless reviews and articles - the fi rst in
The Burlington Magazine in 1963 - he has organized or shared in organizing and writing the catalogues of
numerous exhibitions.
