Paul Galvez is a research fellow at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History and coordinator of the Institute’s new Master’s Program in Art History. A historian of modern art from the nineteenth century to the present, his research interests range broadly from realist painting to the Russian avant-garde to contemporary abstraction. His current book project, Gustave Courbet and the Origins of Painting, is forthcoming in 2020 from Yale University Press. As a curator and critic, he has organized numerous exhibitions, most recently Jay DeFeo: Object Lessons at galerie Frank Elbaz in Dallas in 2018.