The editor of the Peale Family Papers is Sidney Hart, who obtained his doctorate from Clark University, where his concentration was the history of early American religion and politics. In addition to his work as a historical editor, he has published essays on the American Enlightenment including " 'To encrease the comforts of Life': Charles Willson Peale and the Mechanical Arts," in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 110 (August 1986); (with David C. Ward) "The Waning of an Enlightenment Ideal: Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum, 1790-1820," The Journal of the Early Republic 8 (Winter 1988); and "The Enlightened City: Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum in its Urban Setting," in Catherine E. Hutchins, ed., Shaping a National Culture: The Philadelphia Experience, 1750-1800 (Winterthur, Del., 1994)
Senior associate editor David C. Ward has graduate degrees from Warwick University and Yale University, and among his publications are: "Celebration of Self: The Portraiture of Charles Willson Peale and Rembrandt Peale, 1823-27," American Art 7 (Winter 1993); (with Sidney Hart) "Subversion and Illusion in the Life and Art of Raphaelle Peale," American Art 8 (Summer/Fall 1994); "'Love Again:' Larkin and Obscenity," The Sewanee Review 105 (Spring 1997); "Burin and Brush: Elizabeth Bishop's Painting and Poetry," PNR: Poetry Nation Review 122 (July-August 1998); and "An Artist's Self-Fashioning: The Forging of Charles Willson Peale," Word & Image 15 (July/August 1999).
Charles Willson Peale Family Papers
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Email: harts@si.edu (Sidney Hart)
Email: wardd@si.edu (David Ward)
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Above left: The Peale Family (detail)/ Charles Willson Peale/ Oil on canvas, c.1770-1773/ Image courtesy New-York Historical Society, NYC