Michael C. FitzGerald (born 1953) is a professor of

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and director of the program in

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at Trinity College,

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, USA. After his A.B. in 1976 from

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, FitzGerald obtained both his

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and Ph.D. degrees from

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in 1986 and 1987 respectively. He has worked for

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New York City Art Auction House and for several museums including

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and the Whitney Museum of American Art. FitzGerald has written four books, starting with his 1995 ''Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of a Market for Twentieth-Century Art''. He has received grants from the

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, the

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and Terra Foundation for American Art. Although known principally as a scholar on

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

, FitzGerald's interests have varied into the role of photography in preserving the record of art history, as in his March 13, 2009, article in the ''

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'' on the 19th century Finnish- Swedish scientist Gustaf Nordenskiöld's work with the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado.Michael C. FitzGerald
"The Majesty of Mesa Verde"
in ''Wall Street Journal'', March 13, 2009, p. W12. His articles for the ''Wall Street Journal'' include a study of the Inanke prehistoric cave paintings in Matobo National Park in Zimbabwe.

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1953 births American art historians Columbia Business School alumni Living people Educators from Hartford, Connecticut Photography critics Stanford University alumni Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty Historians from Connecticut {{US-artist-stub