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Dr. Erin Griffey - Facing Status: Contemporary Portraiture in the United States and New Zealand

November 15, 2006

 

L-R  Dr Roy Glover, U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Officier, Avenal McKinnon, Director of the National Potrait Gallery of New Zealand (NZPG), Dr Griffey, and Sir Michael Hardyboys, Chairperson for NZPG. Larger photo.

Dr. Erin Griffey has extensive art history teaching and curatorial experience that has led her from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, to her current position as lecturer at the Auckland University's Art History Department. She graduated with a BA (honors) in Art History from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and gained her MA with distinction and PhD in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, specializing in 17th-Century Netherlands portraiture. Dr. Griffey has taught extensively in the United States, the UK, and New Zealand. She has been a Curatorial Assistant at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and a research assistant at the Cummer Museum of Art in Jacksonville.

Dr. Griffey has contributed to numerous publications on portraiture and has given many lectures on this subject. She is currently working on a book to be titled, "Tall Poppies: Portraiture in Question." Her lecture at the United States Embassy in Wellington included this topic while comparing the problems of portraiture in New Zealand with those found in the United States. 

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