Contact details

The Courtauld Gallery

Somerset House

Strand

London WC2R 0RN

 

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2581

Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2589

joanna.selborne@courtauld.ac.uk


Joanna Selborne received a PhD from the Courtauld Institute in 1992 and subsequently worked as an independent scholar. She held a part-time research post at Central Saint Martins School of Art where she catalogued the collection of twentieth century British wood engravings (1997-9). She was appointed Curator of Prints & Drawings at the Courtauld in 2001. Since October 2006 she has been working as Curator of Prints.

Exhibitions curated include:


  • Gainsborough to Turner: British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens, San Marino, USA, The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere and The Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, 2005-2006

  • Mind to Paper, Guercino
    The Courtauld Gallery (with Stephanie Buck), following an exhibition at The J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA (curated by Julian Brooks), 2006-2007

  • Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld Gallery
    The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere and The Courtauld Gallery, 2008-9


Current research interests


  • Research for a forthcoming exhibition on The Courtauld Gallery’s Victorian drawings
  • The Witt Library print collection
  • Edward Lear’s drawings, watercolours  and prints

Selected publications


British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition, Clarendon Studies in the History of Art No.19, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998; re-published in paperback, British Library and Oak Knoll Press, USA 2001.

Gwen Raverat, Wood Engraver, with Lindsay Newman,  Fleece Press, Denby Dale, 1996

Review for Times Higher Education Supplement, 22 July 2005 of Stefan van Ray, Frances Guy, Simon Martin and Andrew Churchill, Modern British Art at Pallant House Gallery, Scale Publishers 2004

‘Dazzling Impressions: Highlights from The Courtauld Gallery’s Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Prints’, Apollo, Summer 2008

‘The Scharf Collection’, Master Drawings 2009