James H. Stubblebine

James Henry Stubblebine (1920 – February 5, 1987) was an American art historian best known for his scholarship on early Italian painting, particularly the Sienese school of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. He was a significant figure in the development of medieval and early Renaissance art history as an academic discipline in the United States during the mid- to late twentieth century.

He specialized in Italian medieval and early Renaissance painting (ca. 13th–14th centuries), with a particular focus on Sienese artists such as Duccio di Buoninsegna. As the National Gallery of Art notes, he was "primarily interested in 13th- and 14th-century painting, particularly Duccio di Buoninsegna and his school." Stubblebine was part of the scholarly lineage of Richard Offner (a student of Erwin Panofsky); Offner advised Stubblebine's graduate work. His dissertation on early Trecento painting was later published as Guido da Siena (Princeton, 1964). Stubblebine served on the Rutgers faculty from 1957 onward, eventually becoming a full professor. He chaired Rutgers' Art Department in the 1960s and helped establish its graduate program. In 1969–70 he was a Samuel H. Kress Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence, working on a project titled "Corpus of Ducciesque Paintings". In the late 1970s he also taught as a professor of art history at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.