Roberta K. Tarbell received her M. A. and Ph.D. degrees in Art History from the University of Delaware, focusing on American art and modern sculpture. She taught art history for five years at the University of Delaware and for twenty-five years at Rutgers University, Camden, where she chaired the Fine Arts Department for four years and directed the Museum Studies Program for ten years. Since 1986, as an Adjunct Associate Professor for the Winterthur Museum/UD programs in Art Conservation, she has supervised individual studies for Masters students and dissertations for three Ph.D. students. Many of her fifty publications have been book-length catalogues for exhibitions at such museums as the Smithsonian Museum of American Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the University of Chicago; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in 2011 “Rodin and America,” an exhibition organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford CA, and in 2016-17 “A New American Sculpture” at the Portland Art Museum in Maine. She has been a Visiting Scholar, Center for American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art since 2008.