Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. | |
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Wheelock, in front of A Lady Writing a Letter painted by Johannes Vermeer, at the National Gallery of Art. | |
| Born | Arthur Kingsland Wheelock Jr. May 13, 1943 Uxbridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupations | Art historian Curator Professor |
| Spouses | Susan Hoffman (m. 1964–1988)Perry Carpenter Swain
(m. 1991) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Ralph Wheelock (ancestor) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Williams College Harvard University |
| Thesis | The Shifting Relationship of Perspective to Optics and its Manifestation in Paintings by Artists in Delft around 1650 (1973) |
| Influences | Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann Seymour SliveSeymour Slive |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Art history |
| Sub-discipline | Dutch art |
Arthur Kingsland Wheelock Jr. (born May 13, 1943, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts) is an American art historian, who served as Curator of Northern Baroque Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. until retiring in 2018. Wheelock also teaches as a professor of art history at the University of Maryland.