Careers in Art History: A Panel Hall With Three Experts “In your art classes, and in this space, we often focus on art from the perspective of the artist—what someone creates, and why, and how,” began Headmaster Brennan in Hall on February 15. “Between the artist and the viewer, however, there is often a complex tapestry of activity, informed, shaped, and stewarded by experts such as those on our stage this morning.” The morning’s panel of Hall speakers included three professionals who earned degrees in art history and have since taken that skill and passion in various directions. From the Smith Theater stage, Myles Garbarini ’13, Sue McCrory, and Paul Provost ’83 shared their experiences, trajectories, and insights with students and faculty. Myles majored in art history at Yale after graduating from Roxbury Latin, focusing his thesis on the multidimensionality in Mikhail Vrubel’s paintings and ceramics. He conducted his primary research in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, and this work earned him Yale’s Goodyear Fine Arts Award for excellence in his senior thesis. Until recently, Myles applied
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his passion and talent for art and learning as a technical art historian and research coordinator in the Scientific Research Department of Sotheby’s—the famed marketplace and auction house for fine art and luxury items. In that role, Myles coordinated analytical examinations of artworks worldwide, and executed technical imaging and infrared photography of artworks, resolving disputes about authenticity and condition. In Hall he spoke about that work through the example of a famed Botticelli painting that he and his colleagues worked on, revealing what they found in the painting’s centuries-old layers. Dr. Sue McCrory—Roxbury Latin’s inspiring teacher of history, Art History, and Technology & Art—gained experience as an academic and historian in several different facets prior to arriving at RL. After earning her bachelor’s degree at Duke and her doctorate in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, Dr. McCrory served as a teaching fellow at Harvard; as a historical guide in Rome, leading visitors through the Vatican Museums and Basilica of St. Peter; on the curatorial team of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum;
