Dr. David Park Curry, formerly the senior curator of Decorative Arts, American Painting & Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art, specializes in American and European art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Curry holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University. He has lectured widely in the United States and England, and published studies on Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, American Impressionism and Realism, folk art, Victorian architecture, world fairs, and period framing.

Martha R. Severns is a graduate of Wells College in Aurora, New York, and holds a master's degree from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She has served as curator at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina; the Portland Museum of Art in Maine; and the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina. She is the author of Andrew Wyeth: America's Painter; Greenville County Museum of Art: The Southern Collection; The Charleston Renaissance; From New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason and co-author most recently of Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from The Johnson Collection.