Anne Helmreich

Anne Helmreich is Director, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (AAA). In this role, she is leading the effort to develop a long-term digital strategy for AAA in support of the Smithsonian’s strategic goal to ensure every home and classroom has access to the Smithsonian’s digital content. Prior to her appointment, she was Associate Director, Getty Foundation, and formerly Associate Director, Digital Initiatives, Getty Research Institute, both of the J. Paul Getty Trust. At the Getty Research Institute, she oversaw the Getty Provenance Index, currently being migrated to a linked open data platform; the Getty Vocabularies and the adoption of the Open Refine data reconciliation tool; and the digital projects team, including the Getty’s participation in Pharos, the international consortium of photo archives, for which she currently serves as an advisor. She has also served as Dean, TCU College of Fine Arts; Senior Program Officer, The Getty Foundation; and Associate Professor of Art History and Director, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University. Her current research focuses on the history of the art market and the productive intersection of the digital humanities and art history. She has published essays with American Art, BRANCH, Getty Research Journal, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Web, Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Review, Victorian Studies, Visual Culture in Britain, Visual Resources as well as numerous book chapters and two monographs.

Affiliation

Archives of American Art, The Smithsonian Institution

Special Roles

  • Art History Section Editor