Joseph J. Rishel (May 15, 1940 – November 5, 2020) was a curator at the

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and a specialist in the art of

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...

. He retired in May 2016 and was a curator emeritus of European Painting. He was married to

Anne d'Harnoncourt Anne Julie d'Harnoncourt (September 7, 1943 – June 1, 2008) was an American curator, museum director, and art historian specializing in modern art. She was the director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), a post she held from 19 ...

, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, until her death in 2008. Rishel was a fellow of the

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, a member of the

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, and a chevalier of the

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Selected publications

*''Cézanne in Philadelphia collections''. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1983. *''Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia''. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2012. (Contributor and editor)

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Joseph J. Rishel talking about Vincent Van Gogh (03/09/12)Joseph Rishel giving the talk "John Singer Sargent: Gas Painting" as part of a Symposium on 100th Anniversary of World War I (April 2014)
American art historians 1940 births 2020 deaths University of Chicago alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres American art curators People associated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art People from Clifton Springs, New York Historians from New York (state) Members of the American Philosophical Society {{US-art-historian-stub