Anne Varick Lauder, Ph.D.
Rancho Santa Fe, California
Email: anne@lauderartadvisory.com
About
Dr. Anne Varick Lauder has over twenty years of experience working in museums and private collections across the US and Europe. A leading expert in Italian drawings, she has held curatorial positions at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Morgan Library & Museum, the New York Public Library, and she was chargée de mission at the Louvre (2008-09). She was awarded her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2004 for her comprehensive monograph on the work of the Venetian-born, Roman-influenced, painter, print-maker and virtuoso draughtsman, Battista Franco (c. 1510-1561), and she has written extensively on his work.
Anne Varick Lauder established her art consultancy in 2007. Her clients are primarily individuals, foundations and museums. Her roles include conceiving, curating and managing exhibitions and also guiding collection strategy and acquisitions. Legacy is an important part of her offering, and she assists clients in placing their collections permanently, be it in a museum or library.
Clients
Anne Varick Lauder has worked with notable collectors including Katrin Bellinger. As her curator from 2007 to 2016, Anne oversaw a wide-ranging collection from old master drawings to contemporary sculpture on the singular theme of the artist at work. For Katrin Bellinger, Anne co-curated (with Adriano Aymonino) Drawn from the Antique: Artists & the Classical Ideal at the Teylers Museum and Sir John Soane’s Museum (2015). It explored the role of antique sculpture in artistic education and practice from the Renaissance through to the nineteenth century. The accompanying catalogue was nominated for the Berger Prize for British Art History.
For the past decade Anne has been curator and senior advisor to The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation. Recently, Anne was instrumental in finding a permanent home for Bern Schwartz’s photography collection and archive at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford.
Anne’s newest client is David Kabakoff, whose collection is based on the theme of printmakers at work.
Credentials
Ph.D., History of Art, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
Postgraduate Diploma, History of Art, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
Diploma, Works of Art Course in the Fine and Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
B.A., History of Art, Occidental College
Member, Association of Art Historians (AAH)
Member, International Council of Museums (ICOM)
Member, European Steering Committee, Association of Professional Art Advisors
Member, Photographs Acquisition Group (PAG), Victoria and Albert Museum
Publications
Anne Varick Lauder’s articles on Italian drawings, prints and twentieth-century photography have appeared in The Burlington Magazine, Master Drawings and elsewhere, and she has contributed to numerous catalogues. Her major book, a volume in the prestigious series of Inventaires published by the Department des Arts Graphiques of the Louvre, Dessins Italiens du Musée du Louvre: Battista Franco, was published in 2009, in conjunction with the first-ever exhibition on the artist, which she guest-curated.
Anne contributes regularly to museum catalogues including Life, Death & Revelry: The Farnese Sarcophagus (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), Italian Renaissance Drawings in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon (2018) and The Renaissance of Etching (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019).
See also: https://independent.academia.edu/DrAnneVarickLauder