Douglas Druick

President; Eloise W. Martin Director. Renowned curator and scholar, worked at the Art Institute for more than twenty-five years before being selected as the interim, and then shortly thereafter, the permanent director of the museum in 2011. Prior to that, he served at the museum as chair of its core Department of Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture as well as the Department of Prints and Drawings. Was responsible for some of the most significant exhibitions organized by the Art Institute and then shared with other premier international museums such as the Metropolitan, Mus�e d'Orsay, and the Louvre/Grand Palais. To name only a few: Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams (1994), Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South (2001), Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte (2004), From Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard and the Avant-Garde (2006), and Jasper Johns: Gray (2008). In 2012 he was decorated officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for his contributions to French culture.