Emma P. Holter is the 2025-2027 Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at Temple University. Her doctoral dissertation explores drawing, underdrawing, and monochromatic painting practices in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Venice. Emma graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a B.A. in Art History, and earned her M.A. with High Distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her M.A. dissertation on the draughtsmanship of Giovanni Bellini—which was awarded The Courtauld Director’s Prize for Outstanding Dissertation—was published in the volume Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers (Paul Holberton Press, 2024). She has held curatorial and research roles at The Frick Collection, Sotheby’s, The Courtauld Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum.
