The Kimbell Art Museum today announced the appointment of C.D. Dickerson, Ph.D., to the newly created position of associate curator of European art. He will assume his responsibilities on Tuesday, October 2, 2007.

A Fort Worth native, Dr. Dickerson is returning to Texas from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was the Assistant Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art. He has also worked as a curatorial intern at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the St. Louis Art Museum, and was the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Dr. Dickerson received a B.A. in art history from Princeton University, an M.A. from Washington University in Saint Louis, and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He is a specialist in 17th-century European art, and wrote his dissertation on aspects of sculpture in Rome before and during the time of Bernini, for which he was awarded the Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Award (for best dissertation in the humanities for the academic year 2006–2007).