C. D. Dickerson III received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. He serves as head of the department of sculpture and decorative arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Prior to this he was curator of European art at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Among the exhibitions he curated there are From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern (2009-10); Bernini: Sculpting in Clay (2012-13); and The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France (2016-17).