Colin B. Bailey is the director of the Morgan Library & Museum. He has previously held directorial and curatorial posts at a number of North American art museums, including The Frick Collection and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He is a scholar in 18th- and 19th-century French art, especially that of Pierre-August Renoir. One of his books, Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for best art history book of 2002-2003.Bailey received a doctorate of philosophy in art history from Oxford University. Shortly thereafter he was awarded a fellowship at the Getty Museum's paintings department. He found the experience so significant that he decided to pursue museum work instead of academic work. Wikipedia