Colin Eisler
Colin Eisler is an art historian of Netherlandish painting and graphic works of art, and a Robert Lehman Professor of Fine Arts at New York University. He graduated from Yale University in 1952, and continued graduate study at Oxford University, 1952-53, before entering Harvard University. At Harvard he received his A.M. in 1954. While working on his doctorate, he was appointed instructor in art history at Yale and Curator in the art gallery's department of prints and drawings (1955-1957). He received his Ph.D. in 1957 from Harvard, where he was named Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of many books, including Paintings in The Hermitage.
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Prestel has just bought rights to Colin Eisler's book METROPOLITAN COUPLES, wihch protrays art in all media in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, focusing on couples.Books
Paintings in The Hermitage
In line with the same publisher's mammoth books on the Louvre (by Sir Lawrence Gowing) and the Musee d'Orsay (by Robert Rosenblum), Paintings in the Hermitage includes well over 600 color plates. In Leningrad, Colin Eisler is our cicerone. Faced with collections famously large and unwieldy, he opts for a thematic rather than a chronological approach.
(Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, June 1995)