The New Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries

Susan Alyson Stein joined the department in 1981.At The Met, she has curated/co-curated over twenty exhibitions and contributed to more than fifty publications, devoted to artists ranging from Goya to Picasso. Her longstanding work on Van Gogh includes Van Gogh: A Retrospective (1986), which remains a standard reference source, Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Dr. Gachet (1997), the award-winning Van Gogh: The Drawings (2005) and more recently, Irises and Roses (2015) and Van Gogh’s Cypresses (2023).