Officers
Robert Newman, President and Treasurer, is a third-generation owner of The Old Print Shop in New York City. He started working with his father Kenneth M. Newman in 1972 and joined the staff full time after graduating from college in 1979. He was the primary editor of the Old Print Shop’s publication Portfolio for over fifteen years. Robert served as AHPCS President from 2013 to 2016. He received a B.F.A in photography but spent most of his time learning printmaking and art history.
James S. Brust, 1st Vice President, is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Pedro, California. He is a Currier & Ives collector and researcher and has served AHPCS in many roles since joining the society in 1976, including as a board member, chair of two annual meetings, and as a contributor to Imprint and the AHPCS News Letter. Jim’s research interests extend to other areas as well, most prominently Western historical photographs, maps, and manuscripts. He is a co-author of Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now (University of Oklahoma Press, 2005). He has an M.D. from the Boston University School of Medicine.
An architect by profession, David G. Wright, 2nd Vice President, FAIA, has spent close to thirty years researching the lives and work of the American painter-etchers of the last third of the nineteenth century, a group of men and women who captivated the American art scene–and thrilled the American public–with evocative and stunning prints. He has written articles discussing the etchings of Robert Swain Gifford, Emily Kelley Moran, Mary Nimmo Moran, Thomas Moran, Stephen Parrish, and Stephen Ferris, to name but a few. In 2010 he published a two-volume work on Peter Moran, Domestic and Wild: Peter Moran’s Images of America, which received the Ewell L. Newman Book Award from AHPCS in 2011. Wright served as a past board member of AHPSC between 2005 and 2010, and as Society treasurer from 2010 to 2015.
Clayton Lewis, Immediate Past President and Regional Activities Chair, is Curator Emeritus, William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. He worked as adjunct faculty to the University of Michigan School of Art and in the field of commercial printing before becoming the first Curator of Graphic Materials at the Clements in 2002. Clayton holds a B.F.A. from Swain School of Design and an M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design.
Nancy Finlay, Secretary, is an independent curator in Hartford, Connecticut. From 1998 to 2015, Nancy was Curator of Graphics at the Connecticut Historical Society. Prior to joining the staff of the Connecticut Historical Society, she was employed as a print specialist at the New York Public Library and as assistant curator of printing and graphic arts in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. She is editor of Picturing Victorian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830-1880 (Wesleyan University Press, 2009). Nancy has a B.A. from Smith College and an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Committee Chairs and Editors
Stephanie Delamaire, Membership Committee Chair, is the Curator of European and American Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art. She was previously the Associate Curator of Fine Arts at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library. Stephanie is a specialist in 19th century American painting, print technology, and the art market. Her recent writing credits include “Was Fanny Palmer the Powerhouse Behind Currier & Ives” in Art in Print (July 2018) and the Lasting Impressions: The Artists of Currier & Ives exhibition catalog and website (2016). She teaches the Fine Art (Prints and Paintings) portion of the Connoisseurship courses for the Winterthur Program. Stephanie has a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University.
Sarah Weatherwax, Publications Committee Chair, is the Senior Curator of Graphic Arts at The Library Company of Philadelphia. She has written articles for Imprint, Daguerreian Annual, The Magazine Antiques, and Pennsylvania History, and contributed a chapter on Peter S. Duval to Philadelphia on Stone: Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia, 1828-1878 (Penn State University Press, 2012). Sarah received a B.A. in History from the College of Wooster and an M.A. in History from the College of William and Mary.
Diann Benti, Website Chair, is the editor of Fanny Palmer: The Life and Work of a Currier & Ives Artist (Syracuse University Press, 2018). She served as the AHPCS Web Content Editor from 2019 to 2021. Diann previously worked as a librarian and archivist at the American Antiquarian Society, Harvard University, the Huntington Library, and the University of Southern California. She received a B.A. in History from Kenyon College and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Maryland.
Caroline Sloat, Imprint Editor, has edited books and journals for Old Sturbridge Village and the American Antiquarian Society. Her articles have appeared in some of those publications and the Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar. She was picture editor for the five volumes of A History of the Book in America and for A Place in My Chronicle: A New Edition of the Diary of Christopher Columbus Baldwin 1829-1835 (2010). Over the years, she has observed the growth of interest in visual culture by historians and literary scholars who also recognize the work of prints in telling the American story. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the University of Connecticut.
Jackie Penny, AHPCS News Letter Editor, is the Graphic Designer at the American Antiquarian Society. She earned a B.A. from Worcester State University, an M.A. in English from Clark University, and an M.L.I.S. from Simmons College.
At-Large Board Members
Class of 2027:
Roger Genser is a private dealer in prints and drawings in Santa Monica, California. He specializes in historical and modern American prints, Mexican prints, color woodcuts, as well as five centuries of European prints. He is the author of Frances H. Gearhart: The Color Block Prints in Wichita 1922-1937 (Wichita Art Museum, 2019). Roger has been a longtime member of both the Santa Monica Arts Commission and the Santa Monica Landmarks Commission. He has been a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association since 1989 and served on its board from 1999-2005. Roger earned a B.A. in ceramics and photography from California State University, Northridge.
Ron Tyler is the retired Director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas (1969-1986 and 2006-2011) and former Professor of History and Director of the Texas State Historical Association at the University of Texas at Austin (1986-2006), during which time he was the editor-in-chief of The New Handbook of Texas (6 vols.; 1996 and now online) and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. He has long been interested in prints as historical sources and has organized exhibitions and published works relating to prints, including The Image of America in Caricature and Cartoon (Amon Carter Museum, 1975), Posada’s Mexico (Library of Congress, 1979), Audubon’s Great National Work: The Royal Octavo Edition of The Birds of America (University of Texas Press, 1993), Prints of the West (Fulcrum Publishing, 1994, a winner of the Newman prize), Western Art, Western History: Collected Essays (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019), and Texas Lithographs: A Century of History in Images (University of Texas Press, 2023), as well as articles in Imprint. He holds a Ph.D. from Texas Christian University and a D.H.L. from Austin College and is an member of the American Antiquarian Society.
Anne Verplanck is Associate Professor of American Studies at Penn State, Harrisburg Emerita. Prior to teaching full time, her 30-year museum career included serving as the Curator of Prints and Paintings at Winterthur Museum. She is currently writing The Business of Art: Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century, a book which analyzes the economic underpinnings and creative output of painters, engravers, printers, publishers, and others in the art world to provide new perspectives on the interplay of economics, social forces, and art. A graduate of Connecticut College, Anne earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the College of William and Mary.
Class of 2028:
Seth Ruggles, a lifelong resident of northern Ohio, is a collector of Currier & Ives and Audubon. He graduated from Hillsdale College and the Ohio University College of Medicine.
Rebecca Szantyr is a Print Specialist in the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs at the The New York Public Library. She received her PhD from Brown University and, as a graduate student, she was the recipient of an AHPCS Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. Currently she serves as Book Review Editor for the Society’s journal Imprint.
Gregg Walla has been collecting prints since 1970, and became a charter member of the AHPCS in 1976. Fifty years of collecting has concentrated mostly on Currier & Ives and views of Chicago. To finance his hobby, Gregg founded a company named Timberline Lock that produced furniture hardware to major office furniture manufacturers. Not one to sit still in retirement, Gregg now is actively involved in a charity called Rebuilding Together that provides free home repairs to low-income people. Gregg firmly believes in the mission of the AHPCS, and thinks that society can learn a great deal from the visual images left behind in our history.
Class of 2029:
Christine Morris is the curator of graphic arts at the American Antiquarian Society. She is responsible for acquiring, cataloging and making available the Society’s graphic arts collections which includes prints, maps, photography and ephemera. She is also the registrar, responsible for making the Society’s collections available to borrowing institutions. She served as associate curator of graphic arts for three years, and before that was the visual materials cataloger for fourteen years. Christine holds a BA in art history from Framingham State University and an MA in museum studies from Harvard University.
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