About James

James Wehn is currently working as the Margaret R. Mainwaring Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In December 2009, James completed a Master of Arts degree in Art History at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where his studies emphasized northern European art and architecture from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on prints and drawings. His final qualifying paper was titled “Behold the Man: Spiritual Pilgrimage in Lucas van Leyden’s Ecce Homo.”

From February 2008 until June 2011, James was an assistant and then associate curator at the Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art, a collection of prints and drawings with a strength in old master works by Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn. At Thrivent, James co-curated four exhibitions with curator, Joanna Reiling Lindell. He was also a contributing author for Faithful Impressions: The Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art, a catalog of the collection published in Spring 2011.

James was the guest curator of “Venice on Paper” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, an exhibition which featured five centuries of prints and drawings made in or about the city of Venice, and was displayed in conjunction with “Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland,” February 6 - May 1, 2011.