Louisa Wood Ruby is Head of Research, Frick Art Reference Library, in charge of the Center for the History of Collecting, Scholars’ Program, and Digital Art History Lab. A scholar of Netherlandish drawings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, she has published a catalogue raisonné of the drawings of Paul Bril; numerous articles in journals such as Master Drawings, The Burlington Magazine, and the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art; and contributed essays to several symposia proceedings and festschrifts. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition Jan Brueghel the Elder: A Magnificent Draughtsman, held at the Snijders & Rockoxhuis museum, in Antwerp. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue. Upcoming articles include “A Family Affair: Bruegel and Sons in America,” for the publication America and the Art of Flanders: Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Their Circles, and “Transforming Research Methodologies: The Frick Art Reference Library’s Collaborative Approach,” for the publication Collecting and Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Louisa is Vice-President of the Historians of Netherlandish Art.
