HOLLY PYNE CONNOR is the Curator of Nineteenth-Century American Art at the Newark Museum. She cocurated Picturing America (2001), the ground-breaking exhibition of the Newark Museum's permanent collection, and organized and coauthored Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargent (2006) and Small but Sublime: Intimate Views by Durand, Bierstadt and Inness (2006).