Get to Know our Juror, Dr. Fred Adelson

Fred B. Adelson is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rowan University where he taught for many years.  He earned his Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University, writing his dissertation on the landscape career of Alvan Fisher, (1792-1863), an early Hudson School artist who was based in the Boston area.  Adelson has curated exhibitions and written museum catalogs as well as approximately 200 articles dealing with a diverse range of artists like Berthe Morisot, Frank Lloyd Wright, Isamu Noguchi, Norman Lewis, and KAWS. Adelson covered art exhibitions at major venues in Philadelphia and New Jersey that resulted in numerous reviews published in the Courier-Post and The New York Times. He has also written about such celebrated American topics as Ben Shahn and the WPA in New Jersey, Annie Oakley, and Walt Whitman for New Jersey Monthly.