Michael C. FitzGerald

{{short description|American art historian}}

{{about|the Picasso scholar at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut|others named Michael Fitzgerald|Michael Fitzgerald (disambiguation)}}

Michael C. FitzGerald (born 1953) [http://www.peoplefinders.com/search/searchpreview.aspx?fn=Michael&mn=C&ln=Fitzgerald&state=CT&city=&age=&from=FC_0009904&processed=1 Michael C. FitzGerald on PeopleFinders.com.] is a professor of fine arts and director of the program in art history at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.[http://internet2.trincoll.edu/pswebtools/facstaff.aspx?dc=AHIS&ReturnUrl=http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/Study/ArtHistory/ Trinity College directory listing of FitzGerald.] After his A.B. in 1976 from Stanford University, FitzGerald obtained both his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1986 and 1987 respectively. He has worked for Christie's New York City Art Auction House and for several museums including New York City's Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1000722 Trinity College's Michael C. FitzGerald general profile.]

FitzGerald has written four books, starting with his 1995 Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of a Market for Twentieth-Century Art.Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|0-520-20653-3}}. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520206533 Amazon.com site on FitzGerald's Making Modernism] (accessed March 14, 2009). He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and Terra Foundation for American Art.[http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1000722 Trinity College site on FitzGerald's honors.]

Although known principally as a scholar on Pablo Picasso, FitzGerald's interests have varied into the role of photography in preserving the record of art history, as in his March 13, 2009, article in the Wall Street Journal on the 19th century Finnish{{Broken anchor|date=2025-04-24|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Demographics of Finland#Language distribution|reason= The anchor (Language distribution) has been deleted.|diff_id=376915680}}-Swedish scientist Gustaf Nordenskiöld's work with the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado.Michael C. FitzGerald, [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123697765848223641 "The Majesty of Mesa Verde"] in Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2009, p. W12. His articles for the Wall Street Journal include a study of the Inanke prehistoric cave paintings in Matobo National Park in Zimbabwe.