Larry Silver

Larry Silver, has taught at Penn since 1997, after previous positions at Berkeley and Northwestern. He is Farquhar Professor of Art History, a specialist in old master European painting and graphics. His most recent publications include: Hieronymus Bosch (2006), Rembrandt's Faith (with Shelley Perlove; 2009), Peasant Scenes and Landscapes (2006), and Marketing Maximilian (a study of early political imagery; 2008). In 2001, he organized a prints exhibition at Penn (Arthur Ross Gallery), Transformation: Jews and Modernity, and he contributed to the important exhibition, The Emergence of Jewish Artists in 19th-Century Europe (Jewish Museum, New York, 2001). Together with Samantha Baskind, he is currently preparing an analysis, Modern/Jewish/Artists, to be published by Reaktion Books.