Michael Lobel is Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He holds a BA in Studio Art from Wesleyan University and an MA and PhD in History of Art from Yale University. He is the author of four books, including John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration, which was awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art. His most recent book, Van Gogh and the End of Nature, was published in 2024 by Yale University Press.
Professor Lobel’s research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Dedalus Foundation, the NEH, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. A regular contributor to exhibition catalogues and to such publications as Artforum, Art in America, and Art Bulletin, he has written on art and the 1918 flu pandemic; Confederate monuments and the history of degenerate art; art criticism and the global turn; and a wide range of artists including Romare Bearden, Robert Colescott, Rosalyn Drexler, Gordon Parks, Robert Rauschenberg, Laurie Simmons, Sturtevant, and Andy Warhol.