Lulu Lippincott

Louise "Lulu" Lippincott is the curator of fine arts at Carnegie Museum of Art. She has organized numerous exhibitions at the institution, including Faked, Forgotten, Found: Five Renaissance Paintings Investigated, Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals 1750–1900, and Light! The Industrial Age, 1750–1900. And she was project manager for the popular exhibition Pittsburgh Revealed in 1997. She is also responsible for managing the conservation, cataloguing, and digital imaging of the Teenie Harris Archive, a collection of more than 80,000 negatives, photographed by Charles “Teenie” Harris, of the historic events and daily life in Pittsburgh’s African American community between 1936 and 1975. Before her arrival in Pittsburgh, Lippincott was associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She holds a BA in art history from Yale University and a PhD in European History from Princeton University. Lippincott has written and published extensively on topics in British and European art of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Selling Art in Georgian London: The Rise of Arthur Pond (1983); Edvard Munch Starry Night (1987); and Alma Tadema Spring (1990).