Judith A. Barter is the Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of many books and exhibitions including MARY CASSATT: MODERN WOMAN (1999); EDWARD HOPPER (2007); WINDOW ON THE WEST: CHICAGO AND THE ART OF THE NEW FRONTIER (2001); APOSTLES OF BEAUTY: ARTS AND CRAFTS FROM BRITAIN TO CHICAGO (2009); AND AMERICAN ART IN THE AGE OF IMPRESSIONISM (2011); and two major collection catalogs, AMERICAN ART AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (1999) and AMERICAN MODERNISM AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (2009). She was selected by the NEW YORK TIMES as a notable American curator in 1999, was selected by the CHICAGO TRIBUNE as "Chicagoan of the Year" for the arts in 2005 and has appeared on the NBC TODAY show and on PBS. Dr. Barter held a senior fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution and received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts. Her recent publications include FOR KITH AND KIN: FOLK ART AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (2012).Sue Roe is a biographer, poet, novelist, and critic whose book THE PRIVATE LIVES OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS is published in eight countries.

She has a PhD from the University of Kent. Her first book, ESTELLA, HER EXPECTATIONS (A NOVEL), was published when she was twenty-five. Her book on Virginia Woolf's writing practice appeared in 1990 and her Penguin edition of JACOB'S ROOM in 1992. She has also published poetry widely. In 2001, she published an acclaimed biography, GWEN JOHN: A LIFE. In her latest biography, IN MONTPARNASSE, Roe illustrates how surrealism emerges in Paris.