George E Thomas Author

George E. Thomas is a cultural and architectural historian who serves as codirector of the Critical Conservation Program at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. His books include Frank Furness: The Complete Works, with Michael Lewis and Jeffrey Cohen, and, with David B. Brownlee, Building America's First University: An Architectural and Historical Guide to the University of Pennsylvania. David R. Brigham is President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the nation's first museum and school of fine arts. He is the author of Public Culture in the Early Republic: Charles Willson Peale's Museum and Its Audience and American Impressionism: Paintings of Promise.