Jonathan Weinberg


Jonathan Weinberg is an artist and art historian. He is a critic at the Yale School of Art.

Early life

Weinberg grew up in New York City and attended the Fieldston School. He studied as an undergraduate at Yale University with Vincent Scully, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University's Department of Fine Arts in 1990, where he studied under T. J. Clark. He began teaching at Yale in 1991.

Teaching career

Weinberg was on the faculty of Yale's Department of the History of Art from 1989-2001, and has since been a John Simon Guggenheim fellow, a Mills fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Sterling fellow at the Clark Art Institute, and scholar and artist-in-residence at the Getty.

Paintings

His paintings have been the subject of over twenty one-person shows, and are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Reader's Digest Collection, as well as other museums and private collections. Writing for the catalogue of Weinberg's 1997 show at New York's Cortland Jessup Gallery, his former co-student at Yale Vincent Scully wrote:

Published work

Weinberg has published widely. Linda Nochlin, writing about Weinberg's Ambition and Love in Modern American Art in Art in America, called it "one of the best books on American art of any period that I have ever read," "an exemplary text," and "rare that such a perfect fit between style and substance occurs in the writing of an art historian." Nochlin and others have noted that Weinberg's work is cogent while being extremely well written and researched; with none of the theory or jargon that has turned so many away from the academy.

Publications