John Walsh writes on Dutch seventeenth-century painting, museum issues, and contemporary artists. From 1983 to 2000, he was the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Educated at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Leyden, he was a paintings curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and taught art history at Columbia and Harvard. He is the author of many articles and exhibition catalogues and of two books: Jan Steen, the Drawing Lesson and The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for the New Century.