Goldman, Paul (Henry Joseph) 1950-

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GOLDMAN, Paul (Henry Joseph) 1950-

PERSONAL: Born April 3, 1950, in London, England; son of Alfred (a solicitor) and June (Heilbuth) Goldman; married Corinna Sophea Maroulis (a social worker). Ethnicity: "White." Education: University of London, B.A. (with honors), 1971; Victoria University of Manchester, postgraduate diploma in art gallery and museum studies, 1972; attended St. Martin's School of Art, London, England, 1976-77; Museums Association, diploma in art, 1978; studied at Bolt Court, 1984-85, and Christopher Hatton Institute, 1985-90. Hobbies and other interests: Travel, the English countryside, watching auto racing, music, art and literature, prison reform.

ADDRESSES: Home—Meadow View East, Orchard, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 0LG, England. E-mail— goldman@clara.net.

CAREER: Museum and Art Gallery, King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, museum assistant, 1972-73; Galerie George, London, England, assistant manager, 1973-74; British Museum, London, curator and assistant keeper in Department of Prints and Drawings, 1974-97; antiquarian bookseller, freelance writer, and lecturer, 1997—. University of London, associate fellow, Institute of English Studies, 1997—. Cartoon Art Trust, member of board of trustees and curatorial advisor.

MEMBER: Royal Society of Arts (fellow), Museums Association (fellow), Imaginative Book Illustration Society, Friends of the British Library (member of council).

WRITINGS:

Turner: The Finished Watercolours, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1975.

Michelangelo: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel, and Other Works before 1530, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1975.

Michelangelo: The Middle Years, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1975.

Michelangelo: Late Drawings, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1975.

Drawings by Claude, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1977.

Drawings by Rubens, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1977.

Drawings by Rembrandt, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1977.

Claude Lorrain Drawings, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1977.

Turner's Watercolours, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1978.

Looking at Drawings, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1979.

Drawings by Watteau, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1979.

Drawings by Dürer, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1979.

Old Master Drawings in the British Museum, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1980.

Looking at Prints, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1981.

(With Ann Wilson) English Cathedrals and Churches, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1982.

Twelve Flower Paintings from the British Museum, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1983.

(With John Allitt) Masterpieces of European Drawing, Focal Point (Portsmouth, England), 1988.

Looking at Prints, Drawings, and Watercolours: A Guide to Technical Terms, J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, CA), 1988.

Collections of Prints, Drawings, and Watercolours in the United Kingdom and Eire, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1992, revised edition, 1994.

Victorian Illustrated Books, 1850-1870: The Heyday of Wood-Engraving, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1994, David Godine (Boston, MA), 1995.

Victorian Illustration: The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School, and High Victorian Artists, Scolar Press (Aldershot, England), 1996.

(Coeditor) Retrospective Adventures: Forrest Reid, Author and Collector, Scolar Press (Aldershot, England), 1998.

Beyond Decoration: The Illustrations of John Everett Millais, British Library (London, England), 2003.

Contributor to periodicals, including Antiquarian Book Monthly, Studies in Illustration, British Art Journal, Nineteenth Century Contexts, Connoisseur, Print Quarterly, Book Collector, Bookdealer, International Journal of Heritage Studies, and Antique Collector.

SIDELIGHTS: Paul Goldman once told CA: "In recent years I have worked intensively on the illustrated book and periodical in nineteenth-century England. I have become interested in the relationship between image and text, and especially the audience and the readership for such material. I believe that the art of illustration during this period has been somewhat neglected, and I hope that, through my work, contemporary readers may see the quality and distinction of many of the designs and engravings. The literature, especially the poetry which the images accompanied, is also ripe for a reasoned reappraisal."