Drawings

A specialist in Italian and British drawings and watercolors, Julian joined the Getty Museum in 2004. Beyond numerous rotating exhibitions from the collection, he has curated and written catalogues for the international loan exhibitions Guercino: Mind to Paper (2006-2007); Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome (2007-2008); and Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action (2015). He was co-curator of Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture (2010), JMW Turner: Painting Set Free (Tate and Getty Museum, 2015), and London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj (Tate and Getty Museum, 2016). His book Master Drawings Close-Up (2010) was co-published by Getty Publications and the British Museum. Julian’s doctorate is from the University of Oxford, and he was print room supervisor at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 2000 to 2004.

Edina Adam joined the department in 2018. She earned her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, where she wrote her dissertation on Jacopo Ligozzi and migrant artists in Florence around 1600. Prior to arriving at the Getty, she held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She is co-curator of the Getty exhibitions Michelangelo: Mind of the Master and The Visionary World of William Blake, and curator of Artists on the Move. Her research interests include artistic exchange, creative process, and technical art history.

Danielle specializes in 19th-century French drawings and prints. She earned an MA in the History of Art at Williams College and is now completing her PhD at the University of Delaware. Prior to joining the Getty in 2023, Danielle worked at the Morgan Library & Museum and held fellowships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her research interests include the relationship between drawing and print practices, technical art history, and artistic collaboration.

Stephanie received her BA from Occidental College and her MA from Oberlin College before coming to the Drawings department as a graduate intern in 1993. In 1996, she entered the PhD program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she wrote her dissertation on the 16th-century Netherlandish artist Jan Gossaert. Stephanie returned to the Getty Museum in 2001 to look after Dutch and Flemish drawings. She has curated dozens of exhibitions from the permanent collection, and her international loan shows convey a keen interest in cross-cultural exchange. These include exhibitions that explore Maria Sibylla Merian’s depictions of the flora and fauna in Suriname, Jan Gossaert’s depictions of mythological and ancient subjects at the Burgundian court, Peter Paul Rubens’s compelling renditions of Korean and Chinese costume, and Rembrandt van Rijn’s copies after Mughal paintings in the global city of Amsterdam.