IVES, Colta Feller 1943-

PERSONAL: Born April 5, 1943, in San Diego, CA; married E. Garrison Ives (a lawyer), June 14, 1966; children: Lucy Barrett. Education: Mills College, B.A., 1964; Columbia University, M.A., 1966.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—c/o Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Ave., New York, NY 10028-0198.

CAREER: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, staff member, 1965-75, curator of prints and photographs, 1975-93, curator in charge of prints and photographs, 1975-93. Columbia University, adjunct professor, 1970-87. Bidwell House, member of board of directors.

MEMBER: Print Council of America (member of executive board, 1976-78, 1984-87; vice president, 1989-93), Grolier Club.

AWARDS, HONORS: First-place award for exhibition catalogs from Art Libraries Association of New York, 1975, for The Great Wave; "best of show" designation, New York City museums category, International Association of Art Critics, 1997-98, for The Private Collection of Edgar Degas: A Summary Catalogue.

WRITINGS:

The Flight into Egypt, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1972.

The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1974.

(With David Kiehl, Barbara Shapiro, and Sue Welsh Reed) The Painterly Print, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1980.

Introduction to Rauschenberg: Photographs in and out of the City Limits of New York, Universal Limited Art Editions (Bay Shore, NY), 1982.

French Prints in the Era of Impressionism and Symbolism, 1988.

(With Helen Giambruni and Sasha M. Newman) PierreBonnard, the Graphic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1989.

(With Margret Stuffmann and Martin Sonnabend) Daumier Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1992.

(With Susan Alyson Stein) Goya in the MetropolitanMuseum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of New York (New York, NY), 1995.

Toulouse-Lautrec in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of New York (New York, NY), 1996.

(Compiler, with others) The Private Collection ofEdgar Degas: A Summary Catalogue, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1997.

(With Elizabeth E. Barker) Romanticism and theSchool of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 2000.

(With Susan Alyson Stein, Charlotte Hale, and Marjorie Shelley) The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 2002.

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BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Bloomsbury Review, November, 1999, review of Toulouse-Lautrec in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 13.

Choice, September, 1993, review of Daumier Drawings, p. 100; December, 1996, review of Toulouse-Lautrec in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 602.

Library Journal, November 1, 2002, Ellen Bates, review of The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections, p. 85.

New York Review of Books, March 25, 1993, review of Daumier Drawings, p. 56.

Reference and Research Book News, August, 1993, review of Daumier Drawings, p. 33; February, 2001, review of Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection, p. 166.

Wilson Library Bulletin, June, 1993, review of Daumier Drawings, p. 111.*