Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s

About Oliver Tostmann

Oliver Tostmann is Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford Conn. Previously he was a curator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston where he curated the exhibitions Anders Zorn. A European Artist Seduces America (2013); Donatello Michelangelo Cellini. Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy (2014); and Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice (2015). Oliver Shell is Associate Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art curated various shows at the BMA among them Matisse Painter as Sculpture (2007); Rodin Expression and Influence (2007); A Circus Family: Picasso to Leger (2009); Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture (2010/11); and German Expressionism: A Revolutionary Spirit (2014). Robin Adele Greeley is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art History at the University of Connecticut and author of Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War (2006 Yale University Press). Samantha Kavky is Associate Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania State University-Berks. She is co-editor of the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas and an expert on Max Ernst.