Edgar Peters Bowron is Audrey Jones Beck Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Carolyn Rose Rebbert is Curator of Science at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut. Robert Rosenblum is Henry Ittleson, Jr., Professor of Modern European Art at New York University, and author of "The Dog in Art: From Rococo to Post-Modernism," William Secord is a dog-painting historian and author of "Dog Painting: The European Breeds" and "Dog Painting 1840-1940: A Social History of the Dog in Art," among others.